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🌱 Quality of Life Improvements

• Search now supports accented characters automatically. You no longer need to include the accent when searching – "etude" will find "étude"
• You can now use /embed-children and /embed-path to quickly insert embedded content
• Inline autocomplete (for things like (( )) and [[ ]] ) now scrolls more smoothly to keep the selected item visible while typing

🐞 Fixes

• Empty page cleanup now delayed by 48h to avoid orphan blocks
• Fixed duplicate page creation during Import when titles included accented characters

📮Pages Worth Building: [[Via Negativa]]

Some pages hold everything you’re working on.
This one holds everything you’re not.

Instead of trying to add more productive habits, start eliminating unproductive ones. To achieve happiness, look at what is causing you unhappiness, do not seek new sources of joy. The same logic applies to projects, habits, goals: consider asking which current commitments are draining your time, energy, or focus.

🔩 Setting up the page in Roam

If you're dropping a skill, log it. If a project feels dead, move it here. If you said No to something this week, write that down. You’re documenting what's no longer worth your time.

The structure is simple: What? Why? When?

Once you’ve removed something (a habit, a project, a goal) you file it under one of three categories:

• Dropped Habits: for recurring actions or routines that clutter your time (and that you've decided to stop)
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• Dropped Projects: for larger efforts you’re no longer working on (if a project already has its own page, reference the page directly)
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• Dropped Goals: for intentions you’re no longer pursuing. These are especially important to log, since goals tend to linger in the background and quietly drain attention unless they're explicitly abandoned

You could also include a daily negation query in your page -- to collect small, situational No's you jot down in your Daily Notes as they happen. Tag them with e.g. #refusal (or any tag you prefer), then pull them into a query.

It will feel good to cut what doesn't work: with [[Via Negativa]] you'll have a quiet place to let things go, and peace of mind knowing that they're gone for a reason that made sense to you.
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