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.
Back to work today, I don’t feel quite as rested today as I did last week but the show must go on. I’ll brew some coffee before I start my day. At the weekend I got some new beans which are so fruity when brewed, unusual for their country of origin, Papua New Guinea. ☕️
Just realised it’s the return of Formula One this month! 🥳🏎
My Fastmail spam filters seems to have turned themselves up. Found a load of legitimate email in it recently, including notifications that the domain I use with Fastmail is up for renewal.
Today is the start of another long weekend, I have today and Monday off work again. I plan to spend some time painting, but I’m being drawn into looking at some alternatives to Wordpress to power my website and I can feel myself being sucked into a redesign.
Considering going back to Things to handle all my Tasks, or maybe Reminders, I feel like Roam Research for tasks has me missing things.
We’re supposed to be implementing a no calls or meetings policy at work on a Wednesday afternoon, but I’ve spent all of mine doing just that. I feel very drained.
Today is a dark mode day I think. It’s very grey and cold outside, the sun of the weekend feels like a distant memory as I sit here at my desk working by spotlight.
Routines
On my lunch break today as I sat reading some RSS feeds, I came across a [Daily Blogging Challenge] that started on the first of March. As I clicked through to the organising site to find out more I discovered that each day they are sharing a prompt word that everyone taking part should use to kickstart their post for the day. I'm not going to commit to taking part everyday, but I liked the prompt from 1st March, [routine].
Routines have always been a bit of a comfort to me, mostly they just happen and I realise that I've settled in to one without considering what I'm doing. My morning routine for example is one that I've realised I've settled in to without really considering.
I wake up with my alarm around 07:00 and spend the next 45 minutes or so waking up. That involves a bit of snoozing, a bit of morning messaging, and a bit of bumbling around on the internet. Then I get out of bed and head towards the shower.
I'm usually dressed and ready to start my day by around 08:20. The next step is a glass of juice and my meds, followed by a sit down in my chair and a bit of time to have a quiet time with whatever reading plan I'm using in the Youversion app at the moment.
Around 08:40 I'll turn on my Mac and head to the kitchen to make coffee and sort out some food for myself before I settle at my desk to contrive the days business.
I didn't realise this was a routine I'd fallen in to until I came across Pablo Picasso's daily schedule and it started me on path looking in to the routines of other famous creators, something I'll be looking into and sharing here.