One of my favorite ways to reduce my Android phone usage is to turn on color correction, making the entire display monochrome. This helps minimize apps' addictive nature, making it easier for me to control myself when I know I need to be doing something else.

I know I'm not alone in this. It's no secret that many people use this feature to gain control of their screen time. But what may be a little-known secret to many Linux users is that you can do this exact thing on Ubuntu too. And it's not exclusive to Ubuntu, either. If you're a Linux desktop user running a modern version of GNOME, you should be able to take advantage of this as well. Here's how:

Last year, Anytype quickly became my favorite note-taking app. I had been using Obsidian as my “second brain” for quite some time, and I wasn't looking for a replacement when I initially stumbled upon Anytype. But Anytype's workflow, licensing, and implementation pulled me away from Obsidian in the later part of the year. No matter how hard I try to experiment with other tools or return to Obsidian, Anytype keeps pulling me back.

That being said, Anytype isn't perfect, and there are a few things I would love to see from the platform. These are the top 12 things, in no particular order, I'd like to see from Anytype in the future.

I love using Write.as to host my blog. I love using Obsidian to manage the bulk of my second brain. And it's the love for these two products that eventually led me down a rabbit hole in search of a way to potentially integrate the two together. Not only did I find a solution, but it works even better than I could've imagined.