{"id":427,"date":"2024-05-13T22:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T22:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2024-05-13T22:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T22:42:06","slug":"i-must-be-getting-old-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"I Must Be Getting Old (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to always try new software, all in the hope of ever increasing productivity and making life a bit easier. It normally doesn&#8217;t make life easier, but I enjoyed it. My wife didn&#8217;t, at least not as much as every time I migrated my drive or storage system\/software, she would be dragged along and has to learn new things and find things out. I used to move from Evernote, to Trello, and something else which I can&#8217;t remember, before now using Notion for most of my personal (and partly work) knowledge bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today however I needed to view comments in a pdf, and I couldn&#8217;t find the comment pane in Foxit pdf reader. I clicked around three times, and figuratively threw the towel and went to download Adobe reader (which I have been forced to use at work, hence I was more familiar with the interface). As the software was downloading, I thought to myself that I could just have googled how to find the comment pane, and it was not that hard. It was in comparison a lot easier than what I&#8217;ve done such as I described in the previous paragraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then realized that I have become settled in my ways, and has a certain set of ways doing things. In short, I am getting old. Oh my.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my defense though, I was rushing to get the job done. I have realized over the year that sometimes delivering the result outweighs developing the system, and there are times for the opposite. I wrote it <a href=\"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=139\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, I am getting old and there is no denying that. Oh well, at least I had my time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to always try new software, all in the hope of ever increasing productivity and making life a bit easier. It normally doesn&#8217;t make life easier, but I enjoyed it. My wife didn&#8217;t, at least not as much as every time I migrated my drive or storage system\/software, she would be dragged along and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}