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Jan 4, 2024: Four days in, but HNY. In line with my experience to date, the holidays weren’t quite as productive as I’d hoped, but I managed to get a …
Oct 25, 2023: Operating notes 2023-10-25 Keymap is finally settling down. Typing speed is improving again. Thinking about moving from Mail.app back to Spark. Taken the plunge and ordered …
Oct 20, 2023: Probably already exists, but I couldn’t find anything, so made this… a shortcut for creating a direct link to an Audible audiobook. From …
Oct 20, 2023: Every now and then I do a little search to see if it’s possible to link directly to a book in Kindle (iPad, iPadOS). Not expecting to be …
Oct 2, 2023: Finished reading the fourth volume of Die (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_(comics) ), and with that, the whole series. Much to enjoy. Lots of …
Oct 1, 2023: There's always another board to build... Ripped the (not working) LEDs out of the left side of my Corne because I got tired of watching a 1500mAh battery drain over a day or two (should last …
Oct 1, 2023: Pardon me, but I’m featured in an exhibition in the Museum of Colour… 😊 museumofcolour.org.uk/my-words/… “My Words: …
Sep 30, 2023: Thinking About Files and Documents Right now, I primarily store things in iCloud, with A LOT of legacy storage in Dropbox. I’ve used Readdle …
Sep 29, 2023: iPadOS set up: No apps on my home screen, just a selection of widgets. My dock has three shortcuts (new draft, today’s journal, a Shortcuts …
Sep 18, 2023: Active thread of thought: how many of us are just “passing” as neurotypical, with self-management strategies we may not even recognise as …
Sep 18, 2023: Having far too much fun writing iPadOS shortcuts into my Corne Mini keymap. Latest one is a combo key (w+s) to show/hide slide over. I typically have …
Aug 29, 2023: Been meaning to start posting/blogging a weekly review— project updates, workflow updates etc. Been a bit too busy to build that habit, but off the …
Aug 26, 2023: Just posted an update on my Block Level Filter action for Drafts. This one exposes proximally related lines (“blocks”) in search results, …
Aug 25, 2023: Third time this week I’ve thought “I wish this Drafts action could do…”, then looked into the action’s code only to …
Aug 23, 2023: Okay. So wait: my micro.blog replies on my micro.blog site (web) don’t link back to a conversation thread for context? Is that a …
Aug 23, 2023: Yes indeed. RSS is not email. I know this, and yet... Downes.ca ~ RSS Zero isn’t the path to RSS Joy Your RSS feeds represent subscriptions to things you’re ostensibly interested in. You opt …
Aug 22, 2023: #iPadOS 17 pb3: has been VERY crashy. Just lost an email with a proposal I was drafting. Lesson learned. Composing emails in Drafts.app, at least …
Aug 17, 2023: Hey Epilogue users who listen to audiobooks: does Epilogue only return print books when searching? If so, do you just add the print version to your …
Aug 17, 2023: Need a waitlist tracker. Was just about to sign-up for the Subconscious beta (https://subconscious.substack.com/p/subconscious-beta), but I’m …
Aug 17, 2023: Mmm. Many things to love about this site: www.jonmsterling.com/index.xml… Love the typography. It feels a bit like an outliner in the way that …
Aug 12, 2023: I’m sure I had figured this out at some point, but: thinking out loud on #Drafts workflow for working on a manuscript or writing project (a list …
Aug 12, 2023: On Return Back in the day, I used to dance. Not professionally or anything; I was involved in a “scene”. I co-produced a club night in a venue off …
Aug 12, 2023: A few quick Micro.blog thoughts (after having spent a lot of time on Mastodon over the past few months): It’d be nice to be able to add (or …
Aug 11, 2023: Okay. I’m now set for posting to micro.blog from Drafts, with micro.blog cross-posting to my Mastodon account. It’s a little Rube …
Aug 11, 2023: Testing a micro.blog post from Drafts…
Aug 11, 2023: Coming back to Micro.blog. Looks like five years since I last checked in… and last time, I was trying things out from a Wordpress blog. This …