Bryan
@bryanhogan.com
📍 Osaka | Start-up & Freelancer
⚙️ Building DailySelfTrack.com app.
💭 Learning Korean: @tolearnkorean.com
✍️ Productivity, sustainable self-growth, life abroad and building on the modern web + monthly mails + projects ➡️ https://BryanHogan.com/
⚙️ Building DailySelfTrack.com app.
💭 Learning Korean: @tolearnkorean.com
✍️ Productivity, sustainable self-growth, life abroad and building on the modern web + monthly mails + projects ➡️ https://BryanHogan.com/
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Bryan
@bryanhogan.com
· Oct 11
DailySelfTrack | Your Life, Quantified Your Way
The all-in-one solution for self-tracking. Combine diary, health journal, and habit tracker into one customizable app. Track what matters to you, your way.
DailySelfTrack.com
I left Germany with 4000€ in my bank and no income. Now living as a nomad, currently in Seoul. Trying to build something that matters.
My Projects:
1️⃣ DailySelfTrack.com - Customizable self-tracking app.
2️⃣ BryanHogan.com - Blog about productivity, sustainable self-growth, life abroad and the web.
My Projects:
1️⃣ DailySelfTrack.com - Customizable self-tracking app.
2️⃣ BryanHogan.com - Blog about productivity, sustainable self-growth, life abroad and the web.
After going to Korea -> Macau -> Mainland China -> Korea I'm now in Japan!
Published a new issue of my monthly e-mail newsletter, some thoughts about my first month in Osaka and blog posts.
Read it here: buttondown.com/BryanHogan/a...
Published a new issue of my monthly e-mail newsletter, some thoughts about my first month in Osaka and blog posts.
Read it here: buttondown.com/BryanHogan/a...
October 2025: Life in Osaka - Bryan's Briefing
October 2025: Life in Osaka - Bryan's Briefing Hey friend, how have you been? I'm now in Osaka, the first month of my working holiday in Japan. I felt weird...
buttondown.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
After going to Korea -> Macau -> Mainland China -> Korea I'm now in Japan!
Published a new issue of my monthly e-mail newsletter, some thoughts about my first month in Osaka and blog posts.
Read it here: buttondown.com/BryanHogan/a...
Published a new issue of my monthly e-mail newsletter, some thoughts about my first month in Osaka and blog posts.
Read it here: buttondown.com/BryanHogan/a...
Updated my /now page!
It's about what I'm doing now, which is:
- Working holiday in Japan, working at a hostel
- Working as a freelancer building a web app
- Building my app DailySelfTrack
Read all here: bryanhogan.com/now
#buildinpublic #webdev
It's about what I'm doing now, which is:
- Working holiday in Japan, working at a hostel
- Working as a freelancer building a web app
- Building my app DailySelfTrack
Read all here: bryanhogan.com/now
#buildinpublic #webdev
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Updated my /now page!
It's about what I'm doing now, which is:
- Working holiday in Japan, working at a hostel
- Working as a freelancer building a web app
- Building my app DailySelfTrack
Read all here: bryanhogan.com/now
#buildinpublic #webdev
It's about what I'm doing now, which is:
- Working holiday in Japan, working at a hostel
- Working as a freelancer building a web app
- Building my app DailySelfTrack
Read all here: bryanhogan.com/now
#buildinpublic #webdev
4,000€. One-way. No return date. I’m betting on myself, traveling, learning, and building a digital business along the way.
#travel #buildinpublic #nomad
#travel #buildinpublic #nomad
October 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
4,000€. One-way. No return date. I’m betting on myself, traveling, learning, and building a digital business along the way.
#travel #buildinpublic #nomad
#travel #buildinpublic #nomad
From Busan to Fukuoka by ferry 🛳
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
From Busan to Fukuoka by ferry 🛳
One of my favorite ChatGPT instructions / projects I use for learning and improving my Korean.
Often words are just combinations of other words or concepts. By understanding these building blocks, I can learn new words much faster and also better remember existing ones.
Often words are just combinations of other words or concepts. By understanding these building blocks, I can learn new words much faster and also better remember existing ones.
October 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
One of my favorite ChatGPT instructions / projects I use for learning and improving my Korean.
Often words are just combinations of other words or concepts. By understanding these building blocks, I can learn new words much faster and also better remember existing ones.
Often words are just combinations of other words or concepts. By understanding these building blocks, I can learn new words much faster and also better remember existing ones.
I left Germany with 4000€ in my bank and no income. Now living as a nomad, currently in Seoul. Trying to build something that matters.
My Projects:
1️⃣ DailySelfTrack.com - Customizable self-tracking app.
2️⃣ BryanHogan.com - Blog about productivity, sustainable self-growth, life abroad and the web.
My Projects:
1️⃣ DailySelfTrack.com - Customizable self-tracking app.
2️⃣ BryanHogan.com - Blog about productivity, sustainable self-growth, life abroad and the web.
DailySelfTrack | Your Life, Quantified Your Way
The all-in-one solution for self-tracking. Combine diary, health journal, and habit tracker into one customizable app. Track what matters to you, your way.
DailySelfTrack.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I left Germany with 4000€ in my bank and no income. Now living as a nomad, currently in Seoul. Trying to build something that matters.
My Projects:
1️⃣ DailySelfTrack.com - Customizable self-tracking app.
2️⃣ BryanHogan.com - Blog about productivity, sustainable self-growth, life abroad and the web.
My Projects:
1️⃣ DailySelfTrack.com - Customizable self-tracking app.
2️⃣ BryanHogan.com - Blog about productivity, sustainable self-growth, life abroad and the web.
Redesigned the landing page for my DailySelfTrack app project today.
What do you think?
(How many times better is the new design compared to the old one? 👀) Built with @astro.build btw!
1️⃣ Old one
2️⃣ New one
What do you think?
(How many times better is the new design compared to the old one? 👀) Built with @astro.build btw!
1️⃣ Old one
2️⃣ New one
October 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Redesigned the landing page for my DailySelfTrack app project today.
What do you think?
(How many times better is the new design compared to the old one? 👀) Built with @astro.build btw!
1️⃣ Old one
2️⃣ New one
What do you think?
(How many times better is the new design compared to the old one? 👀) Built with @astro.build btw!
1️⃣ Old one
2️⃣ New one
I sync my #Obsidian vault for free between desktop and mobile.
How? An Obsidian vault is just markdown files, so any file sync works. 3 options ⬇️
1️⃣ Google Drive, One Drive, or any other cloud provider.
2️⃣ Peer to peer tools such as SyncThing Fork or Resilio.
3️⃣ GitHub & co.
Want more details? See:
How? An Obsidian vault is just markdown files, so any file sync works. 3 options ⬇️
1️⃣ Google Drive, One Drive, or any other cloud provider.
2️⃣ Peer to peer tools such as SyncThing Fork or Resilio.
3️⃣ GitHub & co.
Want more details? See:
How To Sync Obsidian
How to synchronize your Obsidian Vaults. Using Obsidian Sync, Syncthing, Google Drive or Github.
bryanhogan.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I sync my #Obsidian vault for free between desktop and mobile.
How? An Obsidian vault is just markdown files, so any file sync works. 3 options ⬇️
1️⃣ Google Drive, One Drive, or any other cloud provider.
2️⃣ Peer to peer tools such as SyncThing Fork or Resilio.
3️⃣ GitHub & co.
Want more details? See:
How? An Obsidian vault is just markdown files, so any file sync works. 3 options ⬇️
1️⃣ Google Drive, One Drive, or any other cloud provider.
2️⃣ Peer to peer tools such as SyncThing Fork or Resilio.
3️⃣ GitHub & co.
Want more details? See:
Currently using #Obsidian for:
- collecting my thoughts and ideas
- saving important knowledge and information
- writing things such as my blog and monthly mail updates.
My two most important folder, /Zettelkasten and /Projects use a bottom-up approach.
- collecting my thoughts and ideas
- saving important knowledge and information
- writing things such as my blog and monthly mail updates.
My two most important folder, /Zettelkasten and /Projects use a bottom-up approach.
Obsidian vault setup tour
How my Obsidian vault works after, a practical setup. Including bottom-up Zettelkasten notes, plugins, Bases and my general rules.
bryanhogan.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Currently using #Obsidian for:
- collecting my thoughts and ideas
- saving important knowledge and information
- writing things such as my blog and monthly mail updates.
My two most important folder, /Zettelkasten and /Projects use a bottom-up approach.
- collecting my thoughts and ideas
- saving important knowledge and information
- writing things such as my blog and monthly mail updates.
My two most important folder, /Zettelkasten and /Projects use a bottom-up approach.
Have been using #Obsidian as my main note-taking tool for more than 3 years now, and I still love it! So many things I prefer over other note-taking apps, especially the file over app approach using markdown files.
With my latest post about using Obsidian I have now written 10 in depth posts!
With my latest post about using Obsidian I have now written 10 in depth posts!
Tag: obsidian
All posts containing the tag Obsidian.
bryanhogan.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Have been using #Obsidian as my main note-taking tool for more than 3 years now, and I still love it! So many things I prefer over other note-taking apps, especially the file over app approach using markdown files.
With my latest post about using Obsidian I have now written 10 in depth posts!
With my latest post about using Obsidian I have now written 10 in depth posts!
Leaflet.pub seems nice?
Hi Leaflet.pub 👋
bryan.leaflet.pub
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Leaflet.pub seems nice?
Rebuilt the end-of-post section for my blog. Took much longer than I expected. Tried AI tools like Copilot and Claude Code, which are definitely helpful, but still decided to rewrite the HTML & CSS from scratch since anything generated was messy.
Any ideas on how to improve the design?
Any ideas on how to improve the design?
September 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Rebuilt the end-of-post section for my blog. Took much longer than I expected. Tried AI tools like Copilot and Claude Code, which are definitely helpful, but still decided to rewrite the HTML & CSS from scratch since anything generated was messy.
Any ideas on how to improve the design?
Any ideas on how to improve the design?
September 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
20th edition of my newsletter is out!
Wrote about my time in Macau, slow progress in reaching my goals, and the regular cool stuff on the internet :)
buttondown.com/BryanHogan/a...
Wrote about my time in Macau, slow progress in reaching my goals, and the regular cool stuff on the internet :)
buttondown.com/BryanHogan/a...
August 2025: Leaving Macau & slow growth - Bryan's Briefing
August 2025: Leaving Macau & slow growth - Bryan's Briefing Hey friend, it's been another month and my time in Macau is over! Also, only 4 more issues of...
buttondown.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
20th edition of my newsletter is out!
Wrote about my time in Macau, slow progress in reaching my goals, and the regular cool stuff on the internet :)
buttondown.com/BryanHogan/a...
Wrote about my time in Macau, slow progress in reaching my goals, and the regular cool stuff on the internet :)
buttondown.com/BryanHogan/a...
Happy to see my blog post included on Astro's monthly update! @astro.build
Using my favorite "note-taking" tool ( @obsidian.md ) with my favorite framework (Astro) is great and I can highly recommend this workflow 💯
Using my favorite "note-taking" tool ( @obsidian.md ) with my favorite framework (Astro) is great and I can highly recommend this workflow 💯
September 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy to see my blog post included on Astro's monthly update! @astro.build
Using my favorite "note-taking" tool ( @obsidian.md ) with my favorite framework (Astro) is great and I can highly recommend this workflow 💯
Using my favorite "note-taking" tool ( @obsidian.md ) with my favorite framework (Astro) is great and I can highly recommend this workflow 💯
Always wondering if it's even worth posting on #BlueSky. It's like a black hole for anything I put on here.
I don't want to stick to posting only one keyword either, but the algorithm isn't doing me any favors.
Slightly educational or "productivity" content does much better elsewhere for me.
I don't want to stick to posting only one keyword either, but the algorithm isn't doing me any favors.
Slightly educational or "productivity" content does much better elsewhere for me.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Always wondering if it's even worth posting on #BlueSky. It's like a black hole for anything I put on here.
I don't want to stick to posting only one keyword either, but the algorithm isn't doing me any favors.
Slightly educational or "productivity" content does much better elsewhere for me.
I don't want to stick to posting only one keyword either, but the algorithm isn't doing me any favors.
Slightly educational or "productivity" content does much better elsewhere for me.
Today's learnings using #Obsidian:
Bases are very useful:
- They can be used within a note
- It's possible to set a limit on how many results are shown
- Can display amount of backlinks using a formula, which is just file.backlinks.length
- Can sort based on amount of backlinks
Bases are very useful:
- They can be used within a note
- It's possible to set a limit on how many results are shown
- Can display amount of backlinks using a formula, which is just file.backlinks.length
- Can sort based on amount of backlinks
August 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today's learnings using #Obsidian:
Bases are very useful:
- They can be used within a note
- It's possible to set a limit on how many results are shown
- Can display amount of backlinks using a formula, which is just file.backlinks.length
- Can sort based on amount of backlinks
Bases are very useful:
- They can be used within a note
- It's possible to set a limit on how many results are shown
- Can display amount of backlinks using a formula, which is just file.backlinks.length
- Can sort based on amount of backlinks
Have been using #Obsidian for a lot of stuff.
And now Obsidian #Bases is finally out! My experience so far has been great. It can definitely replace the "Projects" plugin for me, maybe the "Dataview" plugin as well? Hope it can rival Notion Databases in the future, e.g. by adding a Kanban view.
And now Obsidian #Bases is finally out! My experience so far has been great. It can definitely replace the "Projects" plugin for me, maybe the "Dataview" plugin as well? Hope it can rival Notion Databases in the future, e.g. by adding a Kanban view.
August 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Reposted by Bryan
If anyone is interested in building truely native apps with #svelte and #lynxjs, please reach out!
We have a working prototype but need funding to make that production ready and usable for the wider ecosystem 🤗
We have a working prototype but need funding to make that production ready and usable for the wider ecosystem 🤗
And it looks like Svelte will go native soon with Lynx thanks to @paolo.ricciuti.me and @mainmatter.com. bsky.app/profile/paol...
So, some of you may know that recently I'm working full time on the svelte renderer API thanks to the company I work for ( @mainmatter.com ).
This will unlock using Lynx to build native applications with svelte.
There's still a lot of work to do but isn't a counter the mother of all apps? 🧡😍
This will unlock using Lynx to build native applications with svelte.
There's still a lot of work to do but isn't a counter the mother of all apps? 🧡😍
May 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
More progress on my self-tracking app.
Starting pop-up that explains what this app even is. Building with SvelteKit & Capacitor has been great so far.
Will have to do MVP user testing in the next 2 days, then analyze my findings and finish up my bachelor thesis until the end of this week.
Starting pop-up that explains what this app even is. Building with SvelteKit & Capacitor has been great so far.
Will have to do MVP user testing in the next 2 days, then analyze my findings and finish up my bachelor thesis until the end of this week.
April 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
More progress on my self-tracking app.
Starting pop-up that explains what this app even is. Building with SvelteKit & Capacitor has been great so far.
Will have to do MVP user testing in the next 2 days, then analyze my findings and finish up my bachelor thesis until the end of this week.
Starting pop-up that explains what this app even is. Building with SvelteKit & Capacitor has been great so far.
Will have to do MVP user testing in the next 2 days, then analyze my findings and finish up my bachelor thesis until the end of this week.
Streak counter added.
Working on my habit tracker / journaling / health logging app. Need to get it into a MVP state until end of this week, then do user testing, and then finish up my bachelor thesis on it.
Working on my habit tracker / journaling / health logging app. Need to get it into a MVP state until end of this week, then do user testing, and then finish up my bachelor thesis on it.
April 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Streak counter added.
Working on my habit tracker / journaling / health logging app. Need to get it into a MVP state until end of this week, then do user testing, and then finish up my bachelor thesis on it.
Working on my habit tracker / journaling / health logging app. Need to get it into a MVP state until end of this week, then do user testing, and then finish up my bachelor thesis on it.