Sharing my Reminder exports and some context for them.

[wolftune]

Hi everyone, first time using GitHub Discussions. I'm a software-freedom advocate enough that I want to mention my profound appreciation for Mindful Notifier being fully free/libre/open software and my dismay that GitHub is itself proprietary.

I'm posting here to share my highly-curated set of reminders. Some are personal, but not anything I worry about sharing. Most are generic.

I have been studying ergonomics, stoicism, general health, breath practices, Buddhism, various contemporary mental model collections, and more. I've now got in the habit of adding to Mindful Notifier whenever I encounter an idea I really want in my head more often.

I especially appreciated the curated framework of stuff at https://conscious.is/resources though I have ideas of how their stuff could be further improved. I emailed them asking that they please add MN to their list of reminder tools in one of their handouts that is about this very topic. I also have a bunch of notes-to-self about this stuff and how I want to adapt it into my own conscious-music-coaching which is a direction I'm emphasizing in my career as a music teacher (https://wolftune.com FWIW).

Anyway, I'm attaching my reminders here as of today (but likely to keep evolving).

Aaron's Mindful Notifier-reminders-20211227-0820.zip

Some notes:

• Tags:
  • "conscious inquiry" is largely the https://conscious.is/resources sort of framing but not strictly. Anything where it's about thoughtful reflection on how I'm being with actual content of life. It's still context questions, but it's about stuff generally rather than pure mindfulness
  • "habit building" is more personal, stuff I might be able to delete someday if I really build the habit and no longer need remindings
  • "metta" is the specific Buddhist loving-kindness meditations
  • "presence" mainly means anything in the direction of coming back to immediate awareness of raw sensations, selfless mindfulness etc, Buddhist-style
  • "physical practice" is actual movement and actions
  • "stoic practice" is generally from stoicism, or similar enough — focusing on appreciation and stoic-type mental models
  • "zen" is kinda a loose tag for poetic and paradoxical and symbolic stuff that feels like zen approach, some directly zen koans and such, I plan to add more to this

Language style: I played with first-person/second-person/imperative/interrogative language. At first I had more "Am I willing…" questions per the Conscious.is stuff. But I wanted to get away from the self-orientation. I've heard there's benefits to second-person like "you can do it" vs "I can do it", but I switched mainly to imperative "Do it!". After that, I decided it wasn't focused on curious openness enough, so I moved to interrogative with no subject. So the evolution looks like; "Am I willing to be open to learning?" → "Am I open to learning?" → "Are you open to learning?" → "Be open to learning" → "Open to learning?"

I'm happy with the subjectless-interrogative result, but some of the other forms are still appropriate. I'm adjusting mostly by checking what reactions and results I actually get from each reminder.

I'd love to eventually see a curated collection of options to encourage people to use and to share.

I'd love to get others' feedback on the reminders I've made and collected (and to hear how they are helping others), and I'd love to know about reminders that others find most effective so that I can consider using them myself too!

In harmony,
Aaron