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braintool
4/23/2021
Chrome is a RAM hog, so people with limited memory might indeed have problems in some circumstances. I currently have 45 tabs open in Brave, in three different windows. Never had a problem, but my mac...
Totally off-piste, but...
4/23/2021
I love the looks in general, and the deep, saturated back and sides appeal to me. However I'm not attracted to the pastel front part and base, so I'm likely to purchase a 4.5K iMac model in Boring Old...
braintool
4/22/2021
You can stick with Chromium while leaving Chrome. Ungoogled Chromium, Brave Browser and others will let you use the tremendous variety of Chrome extensions while having the tracking innards of Chrome ...
A significant development with Craft
4/22/2021
Hey co-founder Jason Fried wanted to offer users more room than a tweetstorm, while sidestepping contentious or raucous commenting. He ays the blogs are an experiment for now, and the company is going...
A significant development with Craft
4/21/2021
Back to Craft: Drafts app now has an Action that integrates with it.
https://actions.getdrafts.com/a/1kp
A significant development with Craft
4/21/2021
I find the static site generating tools to be interesting but you still need to host the files yourself (Dropbox is a common option, but it's not always trouble-free). I prefer have greater flexibilit...
The Ivy Lee Method + Analog
4/20/2021
I've become attached to using an all-purpose electronic Inbox into which I can enter or voice-transcribe ideas and tasks while on the go, and then sort them into task lists later. When I'm sitting at ...
A significant development with Craft
4/20/2021
Something between Hey's 'Hey World' email-to-weblog service and Notion's publish-to-web would be attractive. (That said, I would still recommend people create a free managed blog at wordpress.com and ...
The Ivy Lee Method + Analog
4/19/2021
The Whole Earth catalog was onto that a decade ago (and their recommendations repeat-filter out through the Recommendo site from that mag's Kevin Kelly)
https://kk.org/cooltools/levenger-pocket/
And...
A significant development with Craft
4/19/2021
The fact that it's got Markdown and lets you choose between saving files locally/iCloud/Dropbox (the latter Mac-only) and outputs such nicely formatted files makes it a real replacement for a lot of t...
A significant development with Craft
4/18/2021
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Craft seems like it could be an ideal journal, and that's what I'm going
>to use it for first and foremost.
I really like what they've done with it, and I've paid for a month'...
A significant development with Craft
4/18/2021
There's also a TiddlyWiki plugin which implements Andy's Gingko-like slide-out notes.
https://crazko.github.io/krystal/
but the number of recommended plugins, which require attention and periodic up...
Transno
4/13/2021
I figured out my issue. The Privacy Badger extension was blocking the login popup and images. uBlock Origin continues to work, however, and it blocked tracked from googletagmanager and byteoversea, Am...
Transno
4/13/2021
The entire site is unresponsive at present, at least through my VPN; using two different browsers I was unable to login or even create an account. And some images would not load on the main page eithe...
Mem
4/13/2021
Day One added that last week.
https://dayoneapp.com/blog/journal-via-sms-text-message
Mem
4/10/2021
Mem has a YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH6RsnPqw8-MnTpylIfegpg
Looks interesting but Apple Legal might have something to say about the name 'Mem Spotlight'
https://www.youtube....
Obsidian mobile app in alpha testing
4/9/2021
Decent overview of Obsidian, but take it with a little salt because he also prefers general writing in Sublime Text (ugh).
https://bicycleforyourmind.com/using_obsidian
Is Toodledo dead?
4/8/2021
No mandatory videos here, either.
Also, there was a Mac app called C.A.T.: Contacts, Activities, and Time.
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/cat
Back in the late 80s I knew someone who ran a small company on a Macintosh SE (Mac OS 6 I think) that used a sticky notes app which let you basically comment on any document in any app, and he used it...
Taskade
3/31/2021
FYI I came across this comparison between Taskade and Notion, which features an informative reply by John From Taskade. From what little I know of both apps (I tried out the Pro Taskade tier in 2019, ...
Is Toodledo dead?
3/27/2021
If Stacksocial used to give devs email info but now don't, I'd believe them that there were privacy issues they were addressing.
In years past I've bought from software deal sites like MacZot (now de...
Is Toodledo dead?
3/25/2021
Discussion, and grousing, on the Toodledo subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/toodledo/comments/m9a7i8/looks_like_toodledo_forum_is_gone/ ( or https://bit.ly/3lRfeqE )
NotePlan tweeted out a link for a 'Learn NotePlan By Email' series, writing, "This is in "beta", so feel free to send copywriting tips and reply if something sounds confusing!"
https://noteplan.eo.pa...
SpringNotes
3/22/2021
Yes, recently he wrote about his use of IA Writer, and his choice of the (ugly, in my opinion) Duospace font. (I have the app and when I use it I use the monospace variant).
I've come to switch to us...