Installed Ghost locally to have a play and see what the theme system is like. I’ve been thinking of moving from Wordpress for a while so this will be an interesting experiment.
Starting to feel a bit more human again. The side effects from the vaccine are mostly gone now although I still feel tired and lacking in energy.
Had a rough night thanks to vaccine side effects. All in the common or very common category, so nothing to worry about, just very unpleasant.
Trying out the new Ulysses and Micro Blog integration. Nice and simple, I should’ve expected it to be so. Looks like Wordpress blogs got a nice update as well, I’ll have a play with that tomorrow.
Vaccine time. Amazing how quickly this has come about.
Picked up these beers for a weekend treat. Love the labels on them.
Got my invitation to book my Covid vaccine today, a lot earlier than expected given my age group.
I have today off work, and I woke up over an hour before I normally would. I did not sign up for that.
Two blog posts in two days. What is happening with the world!?
Searching for the perfect notes app
Thursday, March 18, 2021
For the last 6 months or so I have been using Roam Research as my notes app. The daily note turned into my home from home allowing me to capture things throughout the day. Thoughts, feelings, meeting notes, tasks, articles I read, videos I watched, everything got noted down in the daily note. Using the service has encouraged me to read more wisely, making notes from articles that are useful and capturing highlights and thoughts as I read books.
I had been thinking about replacing one of my Amazon Echoes with a HomePod mini but Apple killing the HomePod has me thinking not to. How much of a future does HomePod mini really have?
I removed Jetpack from my Wordpress blog last week. When I posted this morning I realised I was using it to parse the markdown from my posts. Anyone got any recommendations for an alternate parser plugin?
It would be great if we could schedule the widgets that appear on the iPad home screen. In the evenings I don’t need to see my time tracking widgets but there are other ones which would be useful to see more prominently.
Speaking of proper native Mac apps. I wish there was one for Teams. The official app is a cludgy mess of a user experience, and it still doesn’t have native macOS notifications.
I really wish there was a native Sonos app for the Mac, one which responds my Mac in a similar way to the Apple Music app. If a call comes in then mute or pause my music, connect with the media keys so I can pause music with a key press if I need some quiet. Those kinds of things
I discovered the Craft and Things integration so I’ve moved all my tasks out of Reminders and into a simplified Things setup. We’ll see how it goes.
Sad to discover that Murray Walker has died at the good old age of 97. He was the voice of Formula One when I was growing up and getting in to the sport. Even now when a race start I hear his voice “And it’s go, go, go”. 🏎
I’ve also fired Day One up again, I used the app years ago and I figured since one of the things I’ve been using Roam for is a daily journal Day One is the logical place to turn to.
Gave the app Agenda a try this morning hoping to use it for meeting notes and capturing inline tasks for Reminders. Unfortunately the integration doesn’t work how I want. The Reminders are created in Agenda but they don’t appear as tasks which can be checked off. Very odd.
Giving Craft a try today. I’ve read a few things recently about Roam’s security that has unsettled me a bit. Add that to the fact I’m getting fed up it doesn’t work well on an iPad or iPhone and there’s no sign of an app in the works I think it’s time to try and find a way to replace it.