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A purpose for Obsidian
I’ve had an off and on relationship with Obsidian for some time now. I want to love the app, but after using it for a period, I always end up frustrated, and I move to something else. I’ve started to use Obsidian in a way that works for me. More on that in a minute. First some venting. I don’t know exactly what it is that I don’t like about Obsidian. Continue reading →
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Blogroll
I added a new Blogroll page after support for “Recommendations” was added to Micro.blog. I only added a few recommendations to get things started. This is a great feature. I’ll likely incorporate it into the Cards Theme, but I’m considering how. You can already add your Recommendations to a new page using a simple shortcode. See the documentation for details. Perhaps it would be a side menu if enabled. I’m not certain yet. Continue reading →
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Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Finished reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport 📚 Cal Newport’s latest book fits his ongoing theme about slowing down and producing good work. His latest, Slow Productivity, doesn't disappoint. Cal talks about three main aspects of slow productivity: do fewer things, work at a natural pace, and obsess over quality. The book is structured in a way that makes it easy to digest. There are three main parts; each part starts with a story. Continue reading →
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John Locke's Commonplace Book Indexing System
John Locke had a unique approach to indexing his commonplace notebooks. He would determine one or more keywords for an entry, then, in his index, find the first letter of the keyword, followed by the first vowel of the keyword. Then he would write the page number in the corresponding block. If a word started with a vowel and only contained one vowel, the first letter would be used in both instances. Continue reading →
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I’m thinking about going all-in on a Bullet Journal or some other analog system. I’ve dabbled before, but never fully committed for more than a few days without a digital system in parallel.
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Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★★★★
🍿 A great sci-fi classic. I still don’t know who’s who half the time or what’s going on but still a wonderful experience. Continue reading →
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Consolidating my notes
I know I have notes scattered all over in various apps. Evernote, Bear, Ulysses, Apple Notes, Reflect, Mymind, and Obsidian to name a few. Since I never know where a note is, I don’t use them often and even create duplicate notes because if forget where it is or forget I already have the note. I want to consolidate them into one place. But where? Currently, I’m strongly considering Obsidian, but I need to sit on that for a while. Continue reading →
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I like how Agenda handles their subscription model.
You can subscribe and get all the features of the app up to that point. You can let your subscription run out and you no longer get updates, but you keep all the features you already had.
You only need to keep your subscription going to get new features or to support the developer.
I wonder how challenging it is to manage on the backend. It seems like a good approach.
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TeuxDuex adds a Pomodoro Focus Mode
One of my favorite task managers, TeuxDeux, has added a focus mode, that shows your tasks for today and a pomodoro timer (top-right corner). I’ve been bouncing back and forth between TeuxDeux and Things 3 and primarily use TeuxDeux for work because it is so simple and provides a nice overview of my week. This feature is a great addition since I almost always have the app taking up a small portion of the left side of my screen. Continue reading →
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I’ve been trying out LanguageTool as a replacement for Grammarly.
LanguageTool seems much less aggressive. It hasn’t been in my way, like Grammarly typically is. Moreover, Grammarly always wants to reword my writing. LanguageTool seems to dial it back a bit and focuses on grammar and spelling.
As a bonus, LanguageTool is literally half the price.
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📷 Our last softball season has started. We have a tournament most weekends where they play at least 4 games. It’s fun and a great way to get me out of the house.
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“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.” — Mortimer J. Adler
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Finished reading: A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout 📚
A good book that explains how to recognize the complexity of software design and provides many recommendations for how to overcome it, by making it obvious, using modular design, abstraction, comments, and naming conventions.
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I like the idea of creating static pages that I can continuously update over time.
This type of content does not fit as well in a chronological blog since they are always updated and are not relevant to a specific date.
I created a Tools I use page and a Search Engines page to start.
I can imagine a wide variety of use cases for this.
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Tools I use Page
While moving things around on my sites a few weeks ago, I realized I lost the “Tools I Use” page that I had set up. This is one of the downsides to changing things too often. Anyway, I created a new page. I decided to use my Obsidian Publish account since I still have an ongoing subscription. I think pages like this would be effortless to update from Obsidian. I may add more pages to that site, including a list of search engines, static site generators, favorite newsletters, podcasts, etc. Continue reading →
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Finished reading: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf 📚
I really enjoyed the first half of this book. I admittedly lost interest in the second half.
