I still don’t like managing and editing photos in Lightroom CC. I do kind of like having them there (and thus backed up and synced). But, I don’t like having them only there. I’ll be thinking this through today. Sigh.
I often think about learning some new programming language. You know, for fun. Then I realize that I no longer find programming to be much fun. Frequently useful, but rarely fun.
Spent 4 hours trying to get the Pakon scanner working. No luck. Running Windows XP in a VM with finicky, unsupported mid-2000s software and hardware is a recipe for failure.
A significant percentage of photos shot on film (including mine) look like someone was just trying to finish the roll.
Sending an Emacs buffer to Day One
I have mostly given up trying to keep my digital journal in anything other than org-journal. I do also use Day One as a photo log, and sometimes I consider moving my daily journals back there, but it doesn’t happen.
In order to hedge my bets, I’m sending each day’s org-journal entry to Day One using the following bit of elisp:
(defun jab-dayone-add-note ()
"Sends contents of buffer as Day One entry"
(interactive)
(shell-command-on-region
(point-min)
(point-max)
"/usr/local/bin/dayone2 -j=Journal new"
nil))It’s not fancy. The entire buffer is sent as a new entry to Day One, using the current date. At some point I may get fancy and use the org-journal entry’s date and possibly include tags. For now, this is almost like cross-posting journal entries from Org to Day One, so I don’t have to decide which to use.