Holds in moisture and makes it easy to replace the media as required. I like cardboard for the bottoms of my dug down raised beds. The glue is often infested with silverfish eggs. One tip on cardboard is never store it inside your house. In a couple of days it will be as limp as a noodle and can be added to your compost bins as needed. First stuff your plastic barrel with as much cardboard as you can and fill with water. A 30 to 55 gallon plastic bucket and a utility knife will do the trick nicely. Why waste energy and time on dry shredding. Iamlook, mendopete and PeterK2 got it right.

Note that really thick cardboard will probably not make it through these types of shredders. A shredder should be able to handle those without jamming or overheating. If it does, Costco has a great return policy.īTW, I would use a box cutter to break down cardboard boxes and sheets into something like 8' x 8' pieces. If I were to ever buy a shredder, I'd get something from Costco ( $100 range) and use it a few minutes at a time so it doesn't burn out. It would certainly speed up decomposition. I can understand why some folks like to shred paper. For dry bedding, I tear egg cartons by hand. For my worm bins I soak the cardboard overnight before wringing 'dryish' and tearing into chunks by hand. I have plenty of other stuff to use as packing material. That's great for all the above purposes, but not so good for storage. I imagine shredding it would make it bulkier. 'Having to save the materials for the summer months makes for a mess but shredded can be used for packing materials, worm bedding and compost carbon.' Having to save the materials for the summer months makes for a mess but shredded can be used for packing materials, worm bedding and compost carbon. I appreciate the quickness that wet cardboard will deteriorate, and if I had a larger back yard and the ability to dispose of my cardboard year round, then it would not be an issue. Has anyone tried and succeeded in finding a way to shred cardboard, without spending $3,000+ on a machine? I have tried the OfficeMart shredder and destroyed it of course it is built not to be fixed but there are others, costlier, but less than machines advertised as cardboard shredders, that will shred stacks of papers. I feed it (some of it) to my worms and any that I would put in my compost pile would - could not look like trash - there for it needs to be shredded. This time, however, I’ve learned from Roam the value of backlinks, which gives the whole concept a better chance of sticking.I have a tiny space in town and cannot very well be building a land fill in my back yard - but I do not want to give my cardboard away - I figure I paid for it and I want any carbon value that it contains. Previous attempts to integrate Hook into my workflow have failed. The difference between this and putting a link and notes in Roam is that I can jump to the notes directly from the web page, while I’m reading it. This creates a new Markdown document, opens it in BBEdit, and creates a Hook link from Safari to the note and from the note back to the page in Safari. For example, while reading a web page I trigger Hook (Command-Shift-Space) and hit Command-N. I’ve been using Hook to New as a way to annotate files and web pages. This reminds me of using Org-noter in Emacs, but lets me annotate everything and without having to use Emacs. That means that if I’m viewing a file in the Finder I can, for example, link to the web page from which it was downloaded.Īnother feature I’m experimenting with is “Hook to New”. What’s really helpful is that when I link something to something else, the link goes both ways. I can even connect my notes in Roam with stuff in nearly any app or file. I can connect an email in MailMate with a task in Things or a Github issue or a note in DEVONthink or a blog post or…you get the idea.

Hook is basically a tool that lets me connect things that are related to each other on my Mac. If only there was a way to link all these things together somehow. For example, I’m not using Roam for my todo list, but I don’t like using my todo list for notes, either. Roam is great at connecting nodes within Roam, but the missing, er, link, for me has been the connections between files and other apps. It’s the way Roam does bi-directional linking that has me hooked. I’ve been using Roam for more than a year and it has transformed the way I take notes. A few apps have offered some form of bi-directional linking, but it was Roam Research that made it famous.

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