Jessica Journals

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Hello! I'm Jessica, and welcome to Jessica Journals, to my little home on the internet! A cartoon image, from the shoulders up, of a curly brown haired white woman wearing glasses, a purple top, and gray dungarees. Behind are large stripes in black, gray, white and purple, with faint stars.

This is a website where I write about various interests of mine, mostly involving various aspects of techonology including self hosting, productivity and applications.

However, I have recently expanded to include more interests of mine, taking note from the resurgence of websites inspired by those from the 1990s and 2000s, the era I began participating online.

The content has been organised into a series of rooms, as if this website were a house. You can click on “Rooms” in the navigation bar above to find out more about the rooms and what is inside of them. Posts can also be navigated through the “Tags” page if you prefer instead, or by clicking on “Posts” which lists all the posts chronologically, both also found in the navigation bar. Lastly, “Recent Changes” of the last ten updated posts has been listed below.

Recent Posts:

Note Taking - 2025 Update

Having made many posts about my search for a note taking system that’s right for me, I will provide an update in this post about my current setup, even though my last update touching on the matter was only just last month!

In my previous post about my self-hosting setup as of January 2025, I said this:

…I can update that I use Octarine (which I previously wrote about in a post here) for all my note taking needs on desktop, with Markor being used as a temporary way of accessing the data on Android, until a dedicated Octarine Android app is developed.

However! So much has changed in just a month…

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Tags: Setup Self Hosting Productivity

AOTY 2024

With another year gone by (and I know I am quite late here!), I’ll reflect on a year of great music by talking about the albums I listened to and list my three favourite tracks as tasters to the album. Although the top three tracks are unranked, the albums are ranked counting down to my favourite of the year.

Aside from a few exceptions, the list is similar to last year’s with it being exclusively of female vocalists, leaning heavily towards pop, and, of course, is just my personal opinion.

However, unlike last year, I have dramatically increased the size of the list due to the sheer amount of music released in 2024. Not all of it is fantastic, but even in the lowly ranked albums, I found at least three songs worthwhile and that was my criteria for qualifying - were there at least three good songs that I liked?

I’ll post a list of just the names of the albums and artists at the end.

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Tags: Music