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Tinderbox goes AI
8/17/2025
AI is pretty amazing, particularly if your definition of "amazing" includes a tinge of terror.
Or at least humor.
Yesterday, I wrote a letter that weighed 0.995 ounces by my scales. It could easily ...
Hyper Plan
7/25/2025
Many thanks to Andy Brice for today's update to Hyper Plan. I use it daily.
For instance, a threat scanner produces a spreadsheet of machines, vulnerabilities, and a bunch of trivia I don't really ne...
I have the same war concerns about Mellel.
Your mileage may (and probably should) vary.
I don't want to let tyranny change my life. Bold words, particularly if the missiles started landing in my bac...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/3/2025
Happy to share, but it's not rocket science.
The properties I use are Title, Status, Due, Cycle, Priority, and Budget. Setting the bin size to month for Due helps, and the colors for Due walk from da...
Pretty much completely agree about Obsidian. One thing I wish for in Obsidian is global community plugins. It would be nice not to have duplicate copies of plugins in each vault.
I have projects that...
Summerfest 2025 has started
7/2/2025
I use HyperPlan daily as a control panel and running budget for bills as they come due, and it's really cool for creating an instant multi-mode checklist for things like server maintenance. Nothing fa...
Zettelkasten in Obsidian experience
6/28/2025
Nice article!
I'm not a disciplined Zettelkasten purist. The Zettel methods inspire me, nonetheless.
For instance, at work I got tasked with writing a vim tutorial. That was easy enough. It's a text...
Future proofing is something I thought a lot about yesterday. I discovered a couple of new-to-me functions in vim. I stared into the rabbit hole and the rabbit hole stared back. I spent all evening ex...
Let's hope Tinderbox lasts a long, long time.
One of the things your app has going for it is a remarkable user community, intellectual, polite, and very helpful. I've never made it to one of your me...
Well, there's an obvious answer. Create a Markdown file for each PDF and embed the PDF in the Markdown.
Or, as I like to say, three lines of Python for a boatload of PDFs.
The new Obsidian Bases feature might hold some promise. Right now, you can have as many views of your data as you want, provided all you want are table views.
Imagine adding Canvas views to Bases. Do...
Hard to argue - well said.
I use Curio and would like to use it more. I believe the latest version, which I can't run on my antique Macs, has wider support for external files, putting it closer to ap...
MacOS 26? I guess my version 12 is pretty far in Apple's rear view mirror.
It's the newest version I can run. I'm starting to think about moving my life out of certain key Mac apps into things I can ...
novelWriter
6/10/2025
That looks pretty cool. There are definitely many paths to enlightenment.
The last few days I've been wondering if there are better tools for how I like to work. CRIMPing. I might be headed toward a ...
Andy Brice wrote:
Ps/ Nothing lasts forever. Even the sun is going to burn out,
>eventually.
This was a scary thought. Then I checked.
Finding a running computer might be tough after Sol wheezes o...
I think I'd add Devonthink to the list of future proof, or at least future tolerant, apps. At first glance, it looks like everything disappears into a proprietary database. In reality, the database fi...
Pocket is closing down
5/25/2025
Devonthink has browser extensions for Safari and Chrome. I use Safari, which probably means I guzzle too much Apple koolaid.
It will capture a web page as a bookmark, which is a link stored in Devont...
Darren, you do me great honor.
Devonthink support often says they don't believe DT is a note-taking app but I don't understand why it isn't.
For note-taking, I imagine I use it much the way Obsidian...
I believe this might be addressed by the Obsidian option to put attachments elsewhere other than in the current folder with the document.
Devonthink remains my go-to for organizing information. I thi...
I've looked again at Obsidian and I agree. It's very nice and I think certain key plugins, like Dataview, have gotten a lot stronger.
Dataview was nothing but frustration when I first looked at it. N...
Urtext
5/6/2025
Looks interesting. My first thought was I might be able to sneak this in on my work system where my only note-taking app is OneNote. I have become most steadfastly not a OneNote fan. It was so nice, w...
Directory of infinite canvas tools
5/5/2025
Sigh. They always forget Curio. George works hard, if he's not the most responsive developer on the Internet he's tied for it, and Curio has such a long history.
Book "Thinking with Tinderbox"
4/24/2025
My Macs are ten years old this year, still going strong, no gripes, but they don't run anything newer than Monterey.
If my rent houses will give me any peace, I'll be in a position to replace them in...
I believe Tinderbox has a timeline view. Very strong community support, but also has a certain learning curve.
On the other hand, I don't think it takes any knowledge of Tinderbox's scripting languag...
DEVONthink 4 -- now in public beta
4/4/2025
Agreed. I need to retreat to my home turf, Linux, or I need to get new Macs.
Because Devonthink is critical to me, I think I'll overspend on a Macbook and use it like a desktop, too.
Oh, well, ten y...