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Context (FYI, this is the sort of thing that’s re-hashed over and over again …) Some words mean many things — and while not quite as versatile as God or Fuck, Note is surely high on the list. There…
Apparently there was a massive Twitter hack1 yesterday, and some folks clearly made a bunch of money2 off it too. I didn’t notice this, though I do spend several minutes a day on Twitter. I guess it’…
I’ve been doing this for perhaps four years now, so … it’s something I can write about. Here’s a rough outline: * I use Day One1 * Every day, I write one entry on what happened that day * Optional…
Was playing around with Elixir, installed elixir-mode, but indentation wasn't working. About to give up, but took it as an opportunity to learn how to debug Elisp, and ... whoa, it was effortless…
Ever since I’ve been doodling around on apps/tools like Notion1, Tinderbox2 and Roam3, I feel constrained when I look at the flow of text on a regular book. Of course, it had to be that way in the be…
Saw this list of Mac software that Jack Baty uses and ... realized I have a lot of overlap ! https://baty.blog/2019/software-installed-on-the-new-16-inch-macbook-pro/ The only "big stuff"…
After some trials over the past five years or so, I’ve found that I like to (physically, with pen and paper) write, I like to write a lot, and I like to write in a certain way. In terms of paper, I s…
I had talked about tentatively trying out both Notion and Airtable earlier, and I have more to report on that. Airtable is just a really great experience, makes it so easy to “just create a Base”, ad…
I keep giving Apple Maps a chance, but it just can’t seem to recalculate routes! What happens right now, whenever I veer slightly off-course, is I see this triangle representing my car just moving al…
I've always been prone to trying out new apps in the note-taking, information-herding, organizing, brain-storming, storing-and-finding space, not because I like shiny new things (I used to like sh…
This is beyond frustrating … after I moved everything this year to a different layout and thought I was “finally done”, I’m now wondering whether the static site is a good idea at all. The big bottle…
Very quickly: I love Baron Fig notebooks, both the larger, hard-cover Confidant, and the smaller, soft-cover Vanguard. After a few years of trying different styles, I realized I vastly preferred whit…