Conditionally adding content to my Obsidian daily note with the Templater plugin 🔗
I wanted to add some work startup/shutdown checklists to my daily note in Obsidian, but I didn't want them going in on the days I don't work. It turns [...]
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A work from home reset for the new year 🔗
Whenever I tell people (IRL) about my job, the first comments/questions I get are about how hard it is to get anything done when you don't have a boss [...]
App Defaults 2023 🔗
Hey, it's a meme post. Everyone's doing it. Mail Client Spark Mail Mail Server Notes Obsidian and Apple Notes Notion To-Do Todoist i [...]
Hobonichi Techo Cousin 🔗
I've been rocking a bullet journal in Rhodia and Leuchtturm notebooks for many years. After seeing the Hobonichi Techo Cousin on YouTube and Instagram [...]
A big ass wall calendar 🔗
This is the third year in a row that I'm replacing my NeuYear Sunday Monochrome Calendar. I think I first heard about these on the Focused podcast, be [...]
My goal for 2024: to remember it 🔗
We are closing in on the end of December, the time of year when people put some great "year in review" type posts on their blogs. I am always impresse [...]
A weekly task list with the Alastair Method 🔗
I got back into bullet journaling this year. In the last few months, my productivity system has moved more and more from the digital back to the "anal [...]
My simple 16 step system for adding comments to my static site built with Astro 🔗
Okay, maybe there aren't sixteen steps, but it does feel slightly convoluted. First, some background: my original solution for adding comments to this [...]
Disco dishes 🔗
On a recent Saturday evening it was my turn to do the post-dinner cleanup. I'd run out of comedy/pop culture podcasts to listen to, but I had just pol [...]
A redesign 🔗
A while ago (maybe six months?) I had an idea for a redesign of this website. Since then, I've been pottering away on it and finally sent it live last [...]
If I could be anything 🔗
My toddler's favourite song is I can be anything from the Teletubbies Ready, Steady, Go! album[^1]. We were listening to the song when I asked the bo [...]
Less typical 🔗
I received an email in response to my note No Inputs Day. "I hope I'm not being too forward in asking this, but have you considered you have ADHD? I r [...]
I moved from my self hosted Mastodon instance to a micro.blog account 🔗
My experiment with running my own Mastodon instance is over. I've decided to move on for a few different reasons, but the tldr is that it was costing [...]
No Inputs Day 🔗
As I've shared here previously, my phone use regularly cycles between manageable and problematic. I had a doozy of a week last week. It was one of tho [...]
The middle point of softness, kindness, calmness 🔗
Content warning: illness, death. I listened to a clip of Will McMahon on The Imperfects podcast, describing how to speak to a friend who is going thro [...]
How often do you get to rewrite and rethink? 🔗
From Baldur Bjarnason One of the benefits of time is perspective. When you’re writing or coding, letting the work rest for a day or two usually lets y [...]
Flexibility 🔗
I worked in a cafe that was a family-run business. The owner's mother would tell us, the employees, how to mop the floor. It wasn't the most efficient [...]
Is TypeScript good? 🔗
The Mere Exposure effect describes our tendency to develop preferences for things simply because we are familiar with them. Perhaps you have a friend [...]
Reassessing the morning routine in 2023 🔗
Remember when productivity YouTube was all about the morning routine? It remains an engagement-generating video topic today, but back in 2016, it was [...]
I made some rainbow fireworks with PixiJS 🔗
I'm challenging myself to follow up any Pen I create with some notes on how I did it. The only way that is ever going to happen is if I take the press [...]