Whoogle, a meta-search that strips away all the nasty things from Google. Can’t live without it tbh.

Over planning can be a problem indeed. You gotta keep it simple and real. I use markdown files (plain text) and vim (text editor).

Habit tracker with all self-care tasks is the way to go for me. I use a template with my daily tasks which is easy to edit. Every day in the morning I add those tasks to my daily tracker and go about ticking each one of it. I have a goal of 6000 self-care tasks per year and with some scripts I can easily track the percentage I’ve completed. I also use the habit tracker for my hobbies.

Every day I update my habit tracker several times a day and have been doing it for almost 4 years. It has helped me immensely. In the past I felt sometimes it was a chore, but knowing how much I’ve done through the days help me keep grounded.

“Everyone has what they deserve”

I don’t know if it will work, but it’s possible to tunnel all your traffic through a VPS using SSH and a piece of software called sshuttle.

Journaling is OK but what really keeps me grounded is an habit tracker. Without it my life is pure chaos.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g9A6ctjHAxE

Age of reason: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3743

Interstellar Age or any book from Jordan Peterson

Atomic Habits is a good book that might help you (or not).

I use daily habit tracking for my self-care (and also my hobbies). It’s not for everyone but it keeps me grounded.

I don’t know about Linode, but with Hostinger you get a resource cap on CPU usage. If you put your VPS to crunch something you will be throttled down on CPU. I once tried importing Wikipedia on my VPS and had my CPU throttled down. I pay for the cheapest VPS with only one CPU. In this case you don’t really get the “full” VPS to yourself…

There is a book called the four agreements. This book helped me a lot.

Making lists and time blocking