> How can a productivity system reduce the starting effort of any task to zero? There’s such a thing as activation energy.

For my side projects and explorations I use org-roam, Nix, and direnv.

So activation energy is:

- org-roam-find-file, type, "so me proj string", enter

- C-c C-n to go to heading

- C-c C-a f to open project directory attached to heading

- envrc-mode sets buffer local PATH values according to flake.nix 100% reproducible environment

So tying this to my productivity system with org-mode and org-agenda is either org links that can execute arbitrary elisp like:

    elisp:(org-roam-find-file "so me proj string")

Or more often these days emacs bookmarks which can be set with C-x r m by default.

These combine to rule out the biggest factors preventing from moving side projects forward:

- build issues or the chance of them that inevitably arise with anything less than 100% reproducibility

- a way to talk about and organize each project and ascribe meaning to groups of projects because each is an org-roam node

- a radical assault on anything monotonous I feel the computer should be doing for me or anything that annoys me at all

- the freedom to wander aimlessly and make progress, yet never lose a given starting place