That this happens on Apple’s own devices is crazy…
Microposts
Might have already downloaded the Delta emulator for iPhone and found a Pokemon Blue rom to play…
I feel caught in a continual battle of task managers. I like the OS integration of Things and the calendar sync of Todoist.
I wish I could make my iPad Home Screen as calm as my Mac one, but still with the utility. Full colour widgets are too shouty.
Starting the day off with some beautiful coffee in my local coffee shop. They’ve got some stunners from Kawa Coffee on today and I couldn’t resist taking some photos. ☕️
Migrated my Mastodon account to Micro.blog fully. The next few days will be spent pruning my follow list.
Love receiving Travellers notebook packages in the mail.
I was so engrossed in my work that I missed the start of a meeting by ten minutes. Nothing worse than having to send a sheepish apology message when joining.
Made my first little foray into editing the template for my blog. I’m a bit rusty with CSS and HTML but it all started to come back as I adjusted link colours and made a tweak to the spacing on my new bookmarks page.
The bookmarks page is a bit of an experiment as I try out some of the features in Micro.blog premium, although I still need to dig into them a bit.
Finally found some time this morning to add some personal sites to my blog roll. I’ve been wanting to create one for a while so when Manton added it as a feature to Micro.blog it made perfect sense to do it here. The aim is for this to be the first of many small improvements I would like to make.
Is there anyway to block or mute words on Micro.blog?
Tried to use TickTick briefly today. Felt way less intuitive than Todoist does, decided to stick with Todoist and their calendar integration for time blocking. Sometimes new isn’t better.
All I would like is an Obsidian like app that works on iPad and feels like it belongs there.
Came across Swift Mail yesterday, a native macOS app for JMAP email providers and it looks like a Mimestream for Fastmail. It’s a shame I don’t have a Mac that can run it, hopefully they’ll do an iPadOS version as well.
Theory: Apple is soon going to announce a HomePod with a screen. People will want to see sports scores on that. The new Sports app is for that.
I’m tempted to reset my iPhone and only install the apps I’m using to see how few apps I can get away with.
I would really like to be able to put apps in slide over on my Mac. Having Todoist there would be very helpful when I’m not plugged into my external display.
I finally have a new iPad to replace the one which died in early January. Realised how much I used the old one and my ancient MacBook Pro wasn’t able to handle some things I was doing. Been playing the new Affinity apps and they are very impressive.
I really wish Safari played nicely with all site or web apps. Having to run an app so that links for certain things (Monday.com and Miro) open in a Chromium browser is very annoying.
New iPad ordered and arriving to my local Apple shop on Tuesday. They had an offer with £75 off which was a nice bonus!
Apple bringing transcripts for podcasts is very cool. In fact the only thing stopping me from using the built in Podcasts app is the lack of a smart speed feature. I’m so used to having it that when I listen to a podcast without it it sounds really slow.
This week I’ve made a switch to Todoist, setup the calendar integration with Google and really leaned on their task durations. It’s worked really well for time blocking tasks in-between work meetings.
It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I read something in the first lines of a post and can’t read the rest of the post because I keep going back to it.
In this case it was the first 4 words. I don’t want a productivity system, I want a creativity system.
I always enjoy a birthday list. This one from Jeff Sheldon has a few nice points and a few that made me chuckle.
Picked up a USB C dock that can handle all the connections I need. I love that I only have one cable to plug into my MacBook Pro now.
I want timers on my HomePod to be live activities on my iPhone. That would be a great enhancement.
My refusal to use Threads or X is making it much harder to keep up with sports (specifically F1) news. Anyone know of any good blogs I could add to my RSS?
It dawned on me this morning that we are in an election year. I’ve never been more disillusioned with UK politics than I am now. There seems to be no party that actually represents me, they all appear to be different shapes of the same blob with no real difference between them.
Had a lovely long weekend down in Cornwall staying in St Ives. Lots of fresh air, mostly good food, good company, and some winter sunshine.
Watching the sunset behind St Michael’s Mount whilst enjoying a Cornish Cream Tea was beautiful.
A long time ago I owned the domain electricweekend.com, just had a look to see if it’s available. Seems it’s now classed as a premium domain and is available for $4,480! Maybe I won’t pick it up to use as a blog.