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SkateFresh Asha has a great explanation for this exact phenomenon: your body's "speed limit."

Every time you lose your balance, your brain gets scared, and it lowers your internal "speed limit." You'll have to do less -- go slower, more conservative, less adventurous -- until that speed limit recovers. And it will recover! It always recovers! Just keep skating, and expect to be more conservative for a short time.

After that, the more you practice, the more your speed limit goes up. Fall again? That's ok, but remember, your speed limit will drop temporarily. Don't force yourself to go far beyond your speed limit, and your confidence will return.

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"oh no, get low" is another great mantra. Really practice it, go through the motions. You can practice this with *zero* speed, making it a great thing to do while waiting for your speed limit to recover.

What type of skates did you get? You said triskates, but can you be more specific: what make&model, what frame, what wheel size?

If you know that information specifically, and if you share it, then you can surely find a brake that is compatible.

Just a thought: air resistance increases quadratically with speed, so modest increases in speed greatly increase the level of resistance you're fighting against.

Elevation: In my area, we have a very hilly, weekly group skate that does 20 miles, 1200ft of elevation. Not sure how many hills you have in your area.

I also love HIIT, especially for urban environments. If you're gonna have to stop at intersections, than might as well embrace it: push hard to hit max speed, then practice your fancy stops at the next red light.

Rolling resistance: I guess if you want extra resistance for free, you can also:

- skate old, small wheels
- skate bad bearings
- wear light-up wheels at night, the kind that convert kinetic energy to electricity for the lights

None of this is scientific, it's just what I like: HIIT, hills, wind resistance, rolling resistance

EDIT: Oh, also, in group skates, you can learn to push people! With their consent, of course. But it's a fun challenge to match their cadence in a paceline and still be fast enough to maintain enough of a push on their tailbone.

For Boston, two additional groups that I think are worth mentioning, because they offer flatland skates, off the streets: SkateHags and Midweek on Pemberton.

SkateHags

Smith field street hockey rink Allston MA Monday nights 6:30-8:30 pm April - November weather permitting! All wheels and levels welcome! See Instragram for weekly themes.

Midweek on Pemberton

Midweek on the Pemberton (MOP) is a weekly, beginner-friendly flatland skate meetup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, held every Wednesday evening, usually from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM at the Pemberton Tennis & Basketball Courts. Time and location may vary, so check Instagram for the latest announcements.

You mentioned one skate is a 4x90 and the other is a 4x80. This means that the latter has a shorter wheelbase, right? (wheelbase == distance between front and rear axle) Shorter wheelbase means your forward-backward balance is more difficult, because you can more easily lean too far back and fall over backwards. Just a thought.

If you wanted to experiment, you could put your 80mm wheels onto your Alexis skates and see how that feels. If it feels bad, you can reasonably assume that you don't like those wheels. Unfortunately the 90mm wheels won't fit on the 80mm frame, so you can't swap the other way.

Have you tried asking via the in-app "Feedback" UI in addition to emailing support? I have always gotten a response this way.

I use dummy tasks as section dividers. So, I have a task titled "╭──　　ＥＲＲＡＮＤＳ　　──╮", then drag-and-drop errand tasks beneath it. Or I drag it on the calendar as a "timebox", then drag all the errand tasks into slots within it, estimating how long I need to spend out of the house to accomplish all errands.

Sections have limitations, tags require too much clicking. This solution is the most productive for me.

"Tags" are how I break out of hierarchy, because a single task can exist in multiple tags. The benefit of "Lists" is the opposite: that by moving a task to a different list, you simultaneously remove it from the old list.

"Smart filters" allow you to create custom views that show a subset of tasks, pulling from multiple criteria.

Additionally, the desktop app allows opening multiple lists, tags, filters, views in multiple windows side-by-side.

You mentioned your setup is already too bloated. I wonder if that's the real issue.

I often take a step back and ask myself: what concrete benefits will I gain by categorizing? Do I really need sub-tags or sub-lists to be sufficiently organized? Do I really need so many tags or lists to stay productive?

Sometimes it is tempting to over-categorize simply because we know that tasks fall into categories, but we don't need to feed that categorization information into our to-do app.

The concrete benefit to sub-tags and sub-lists are, for me:

• I can collapse the parent in the sidebar, hiding all children (this may be good or bad)
  • Do you need the ability to collapse the tags in the sidebar, hiding all Work tags at once?
  • Would it be better to group as Work-reports with sub-tags monthly, weekly, etc?
• The tag's name does not include the parent's name, e.g. when looking at a tagged task, you will see weekly-reports instead of Work-weekly-reports
  • Is this necessary? What if you used emoji to shorten keywords, tightening the visual presentation? 🏢-📃-monthly
• You can click the parent and see a filtered view of all childrens' tasks
  • Do you need to see all reports at once? If it's the end of the week, you only care about weekly tasks, right?
  • Can you create a "Smart Filter" to show all your reports tags?

Is having 3 reports tags inside Work really so bad? You know your workflow best, but they're all visually identical -- all start with reports- -- so, to the eye, they look like one unit, just taking up a bit of extra vertical space.

I used your "Reports" example even though you said it's not your actual setup. But maybe the same philosophy can translate to your tags.

You might really like TickTick's "Filters" which is a paid feature. You can "pin" filters and lists to the top of the UI, so you have a tight row of icons to jump between your important areas.

For example, you could set up a "Next Steps" that shows only high-priority items. Then in each project, mark the single most important next task as "high priority", then switch to your filter to see all the prioritized items across all projects. (I don't do this exact thing, it's just an example. Also, the Eisenhower Matrix can group by priority, since it's basically four filters)

I have a filter "My Day" which shows me everything due Today and Yesterday. I like seeing -- in one screen -- what I missed yesterday and what I have for today, and I either reschedule or remove due dates based on what's realistic.

You could create a "Looming Deadlines" filter for things due in the next month. (of course, TickTick has a "Next 7 Days" view built-in, so you may not need this)

Lots of possibilities with filters. I'm sure other people have much better ideas than mine!

I suspect this only happens when streaming. I'm pretty sure that's when it happens to me.

Has anyone looked at Podcast Republic's network traffic when streaming? Do these jumps happen when it needs to resume the HTTP connection and sends a Range request? Is the range offset incorrect? Is this what u/respack is referring to when saying the mp3 can be messed up, that the offsets in the offset table are wrong due to the ad insertion?

What have you tried so far? How have you mapped the portent concepts onto TickTick? How do you feel it compares to PARA, and why do you feel it's a better fit for you than PARA?

I see, that's totally fair. I recently evaluated TickTick's habits for myself and, similar to you, was frustrated by missing features.

This suggestion may not work for you, because it's a separate app and is Android-only, so it won't sync to your other devices. But "Loop Habit Tracker" has a simple, small per-habit widget you can use. So you can make a row of checkboxes on a homescreen.

It's not what you were asking for, but it's the best option I could find for my needs, out of a set of lackluster options.

I also use tasks. It's not perfect, but it's good enough. I don't use them for timeboxing breaks, but I think it would work just as well.

I have a list named "Contexts" where I keep all my timeboxes. These can either be breaks or periods of the day, for example "Errands" for a shopping trip. I never complete them; I reschedule them for today every day.

For you, I think a daily recurring task would be simpler.

I want these timeboxes to appear visually distinct in all views. The list has a unique color, and I use fullwidth and box-drawing characters to title them. (using this tool: Character Width (Half-width, Full-width) Converter Online - DenCode)

For example:

╭──　ＬＵＮＣＨ　ＢＲＥＡＫ　──╮

╭──　　　ＥＲＲＡＮＤＳ　　　──╮

I wonder if we're talking about slightly different definitions of stackable? Or maybe I'm the only one that sees ambiguity, and it's already clear to everyone else.

I've seen some homescreens that can put widgets into a scrollable list, so you can swipe up and down to see a really large list of widgets, taller than the screen.

But then I've also seen where you can manually lay out a bunch of different widgets on a single screen, no scrolling.

Do you get other benefits from using habits instead of daily recurring tasks? I can see how the habit history might be really valuable, to look back and check if you skipped any days.

But if you don't need these to be habits, could you set them up as recurring tasks instead?

Perhaps as a workaround:

You can't bind the tasks to the habit, but you can categorize them in a tag or list. Then, at the end of the week or month, view that list in the "timeline" or calendar view, so you can easily see all the days you did and did not complete the habit. You can sync your progress to the habit manually by opening the habit in a second window or tab, and clicking all the days. It'll be manual work, but it'll be a once-a-week or once-a-month ritual that should be fairly quick if you do it on the webapp or PC.

Maybe the timeline view of your "learning" tag will be sufficient to track progress and you won't feel like syncing to the habit is necessary.

Thanks for sharing! I've added it to my routine. Having a place to throw all those house-cleaning chores, and knowing I have dedicated time for them, already feels like a win.

I like this Revive25 idea; I might steal it for myself!

There is no set time for the items
After 6 weeks, all of those items should be done

Sounds like you won't always get it done in exactly 6 weeks: sometimes less, sometimes more? So you don't want or need to automate the 6 week cycle, just the weekly cycle.

try to remember to uncheck everything every 6 weeks.

I don't think this will be a struggle to remember. You uncheck everything when you finish everything. Simply by doing Revive25 every week, you'll go through the ritual which reminds you to uncheck everything when you finish a cycle.

I think you can do this with a single recurring task:

Task titled "Do 25 minutes of Revive25." Set to repeat every Wednesday.
Do not use subtasks nor checklist items. Rather, in the task description, use markdown headings and checkboxes. These will remember where you left off every week. For example:

## Bathroom
- [x] Scrub sink
- [x] Scrub shower
- [ ] Add TP, toothpaste, soap to shopping list as needed

## Bedroom
- [ ] Move off-season clothes into closet
- [ ] Clear bedside table

## Kitchen
- [ ] sweep floor
- [ ] scrub stovetop

Check off items as you go. Then complete the task after 25 minutes. It will reschedule for next week, and will remember what you checked and didn't check.

After 6 weeks, manually uncheck everything. I know this is a manual step, but you're only doing it 8 times a year. If you really want to avoid that, you can save a template and clone it every 6 weeks. But if this were me, I'd be constantly improving my list, adding and removing items, so I wouldn't want to bother with a template that's extra effort to update.

This is similar to how I manage my grocery list: a single markdown checklist where I'm constantly checking and unchecking foods. Then I schedule it for today when I'm actually making a grocery trip. And the list is sorted by the aisles of my local supermarket.

Also, is there a way I can get a daily task to show up during certain times of the day?

TickTick's "Habit" feature might do what you want. Or, can you use a daily task and check it off even on the days you don't clean the sink? When you see it overdue, just check it off. Or click the "Won't Do" button, which does the same thing. I don't need TickTick to accurately log when I skipped a task, so I never bother with "Won't Do." I check things off whether I did or didn't do them.

EDIT: I just noticed the "Skip the Recurrence" button, another option.

I've got my eyes on the same. u/leazhito how do you feel about the fit after a couple weeks? Do you like the length for your mondo point, not too much toe space? I'm Mondo 275 / 280 and wondering if I should go for EU43 or EU44.

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to suggest a video that many suspect of being CGI, but I'm putting it here instead of creating a new top-level post: this new demo of a Chinese bipedal robot skating on both wheels and ice blades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srPz8TRpZ_8

"​Real life" includes history, wa​rs, countries, cultures, mythology? For example when Paz goes home to Spain, does that count?

Did yet more experimenting. Tried the experiment above with internet disabled, both wifi and mobile.

Podcast Republic seems to get stuck for longer. I wonder if it's related to the ads failing to load at the bottom of the screen? If I re-enable internet, then wait for the ad to load (can take about a minute) then tap the shade notification, it works and navigates to "now_playing" screen.