Weeknotes 1

I wouldn’t say I’m doing weeknotes now, but boy have I taken some inspiration and stolen some ideas from three skilled weeknoters:

Did:

Tried the AirPods Pro 2nd gen at work and the ANC does an amazing job. Nearby coworkers on video calls sound like they’re in a conversation at a far end of a plane, so you only have to play music quietly to make them disappear. But most of the day I don’t wear them. I generally like to be aware of what’s going on around me.
Played with Dr. Drang’s Tot Notes shortcut to convert a short verbal note on the Apple Watch to a time- and location-stamped bullet on the last page of the Tot app.
Worked a lot outside of normal work hours learning new stuff.

Isn’t my entire corpus of plain text notes just a schemaless database?
When using an RSS reader, reading blog posts in their native habitats is more enjoyable than the app styling everyone’s words all the same and stripping them of their personality. And all this time I’ve been using NetNewsWire on macOS, I didn’t know that you could open an article on its original website just by hitting Return.
You can arbitrarily select a bunch of notes in Bear, copy them to the clipboard, and paste their contents into a new note or somewhere else. Like, say, if you were collecting items for weeknotes.
After you’ve checked “Auto-expand tabs” in BBEdit’s preferences and you wonder why it doesn’t do anything, do this to convert tabs to spaces in the currently open document:

At the very top of the Document in BBEdit in the left hand corner, you will find the path of the file you are currently editing immediately preceded by a small gear icon. Click the gear icon and place a check in the box next to “Auto-expand Tabs”.

Molly White’s static-timeline-generator. I would like to use this for… something.
Tom Waits talking about his wife and collaborator Kathleen Brennan in the 1999 Mule Conversations interview.
Want: one Pilet open source cyberdeck for org-mode everywhere, please:

All four long nights of the DNC convention. I selfishly wanted Beyoncé to make a surprise appearance, but in retrospect it’s a good thing that that was only a rumor. The focus was on Kamala, as it should have been, and not on just making it a show, although it was a great show.

August 24, 2024