Opened Safari to debug a website issue and was immediately struck by how much I like Safari. Fast, better integrated into the OS than anything else, and it just feels right. If I could easily edit TiddlyWiki files in Safari I’d switch back right now.
To me, “distraction free” means “missing a bunch of features I’m going to want once the novelty of distraction-free wears off”
A rejected tablet accessory
And then the Mac is losing what should be its primary audience through unwanted innovations and otherwise stagnant hardware, and a failure to recognize the importance of catering to the power users who might want an actual escape key, multiple types of ports, and a keyboard that doesn’t feel like it came off a rejected tablet accessory.
“a rejected tablet accessory” Ha!
(via Michael Tsai)
Why’dya do it, Steve? MacJournal: Still the best notebook for MacOS
I will not download the MacJournal v7 beta. I will not download the MacJournal v7 beta…
Logging books in TiddlyWiki
For the past several years I’ve maintained a text file listing all of the books that I’ve read. The simple text format makes it easy to, for example, quickly see that I read 27 books in 2017 by doing something like…
grep "2017-" books.md | wc -lThis is neat, but otherwise not terribly useful. Given my recent fascination with TiddlyWiki, I figured I’d try logging my books there.
I started by recreating my original list in a single tiddler but other than having them in my wiki it didn’t offer any advantages.
What I ended up doing was to create a “template” tiddler for books. The template looks like this…
Book template
I then created a button for easily adding a new Book tiddler. The “Add a book” button is rendered using the following macro…
Add book macro
It looks like this in the wiki…
Book button
New Book tiddlers created with the Add a Book button are automatically tagged with “Book” and include fields for startdate, enddate, and goodreads. Those fields are used by the template so that each book tiddler is rendered showing dates and a link to Goodreads.
To include the template in a tiddler, I add the following…
This transcludes the custom view template like this…
Example
Including that templates ensures that all book tiddlers contain at least the “Notes” section at the end. And they’re formatted consistently.
Storing the start/enddates in custom fields allows them to be used in other ways. Next up will be to show the enddate right in the list of books.
This makes me want to go back and add all of my books as individual tiddlers, but that may be a while.
Do We Write Differently on a Screen?
Write it and expect a response in hours. In minutes. You write the first chapter of a book and send it at once to four or five friends. Hoping they’d read it at once. It’s impossible to exaggerate how exciting this was, at first, and how harmful to the spirit.
…
While you sit at your computer now, the world seethes behind the letters as they appear on the screen.
“…the world seethes behind the letters”. Nice.
I spent an hour last night figuring out how to best use vscode-journal for journaling and then renamed/converted 3 years of org-journal files. That felt nice. This morning, out of habit, I created a new org-journal entry and well now I hate myself.
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries #4)
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I hope we can have many more Murderbot books. I like them better than Jack Reacher books.
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3)
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Yep, I still love Murderbot.