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Today on AppAddict - RapiDMG - a $1 App that automates mounting DMG files, extracting the app to the Applications folder, dismounting and deleting the DMG and highlighting the newly installed app. It happens in seconds.
There are 600,000 children in Rafah. They have nowhere else to go. If you support an invasion of Rafah, you’re saying the lives and well-being of those children don’t matter. If you saw those children as your own, opposing the invasion wouldn’t be a question. If you don’t see them as your own, it’s because they’ve been dehumanized to you. Otherwise no person with a conscience would look at an innocent child, let alone 600,000 innocent children, and agree they deserve to be bombed and killed.
#Obsidian Maintenance - The Steps to Take and Plugins to Use to Keep Your Vault Up to Date, Backed Up and Organized
Depending on how you use Obsidian, your maintenance tasks may vary, but these are some good general tips. Set these as recurring tasks in your task manager of choice and keep your setup in good shape all the time.
1. Update your plugins
Click on the settings “Gear” icon > Community Plugins > Check for updates button. I also suggest using the community plugin Plugin Update Tracker. You’ll need to do this on every device where you use Obsidian.
2 Update your themes
Click on the settings “Gear” icon > Appearance > Current Community Themes > Check for Updates. Again, you’ll need to do this on every device where you use Obsidian.
3 Organize your folders and notes
If you use a folder system in your vault, you should periodically do some basic file maintenance. I have a couple of folders that serve as Inboxes for me. One is where the mail I forward ends up (How to forward email to your Obsidian vault) and the other is for clipped web pages and the default location where new notes go. I regularly go through those folders and move the notes in them to their permanent home. You can automate part of this process with the Auto Note Mover community plugin. which will relocate notes based on tags. If you use a calendar based scheme for your periodic notes or read it later imports, go ahead and move notes to the appropriate folders during this step.
4. Clean up your tags
One tip I give to anyone getting started with Obsidian is that if you are going to use tags, start using them from the very beginning. My starter vault contained a couple thousand notes I bought over from Evernote and thankfully they were all tagged. I suggest using the Tag Folder community plugin, because one of the things it does is show you all the notes you have without tags. Tag Wrangler is also good to have because it lets you edit and delete tags in bulk. If you need to add the same tags to multiple notes at one, use the Multi Properties plugin.
5. Download and organize attachments
I prefer to download the images in web pages I clip into my vault and I like to keep those images named according to the note they are in. I also like to have a central attachment repository. The two plugins I use for this are Local Images Plus and Attachment Management. I cover the whole workflow in this blog post.
6. Check your backups
There are several ways to back up your Obsidian vault - folder syncing to a secondary location on your hard drive to upload to a cloud service, GitHub or as part of a whole drive backup like Time Machine on a Mac. Regardless of the method you choose, you should check periodically to make sure all your files are getting added.
When the NY Times, WaPo and Pro Publica all win Pulitzers (again) and National Review, Washington Times and The Federalist all go zero for forever, it makes me think that maybe public service and good journalism aren’t so much liberal as they are truthful compared to the morass on the right.
In today’s WeblogPoMo2024 entry, I wrote about five times I’ve taken the streets with like-minded comrades over, well, things that people ought to be in the streets about.
Today on App Addict - ProNote - a plugin for Apple’s Notes App that allows you to use Markdown, a formatting toolbar or slash commands. It also features a backlinks highlighter.
Northern Ireland is like no other place in the English-Speaking World. It’s a beautiful country full of people friendly to outsiders and still suspicious about each other, twenty-six years after the end of The Troubles. What do you know about it? WeblogPoMo2024, Day 6
Today on AppAddict - The Battle of the Clipboard Mangers - I settled on using Raycast with the CopyQ extension installed after being a PastePal user for years. I still have access to Keyboard Maestro and Better Touch Tool’s clipboards, but I tried and rejected numerous others.
I know that VS Code is the most popular editor and has approximately 1 million features and plugins but I’ve never cared for its non-standard interface. As a power user, but non-programmer, I like the free version of BBEdit. Global search and replace is a killer feature. It can also open anything.
One Man’s Obsession is Another Man’s Passion - a multi-generational tale of compulsive lawn mowing, incinerated rifles, talking birds and art galleries.
This Week's Bookmarks - Mostly Music and Photographs, Defending tech from overanxious parents, lessons for writers
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โช David Byrne | Radio | David Byrne Presents: The Power of Song to Give Voice is Eternal
โช The Nostalgia Machine - Find the Top Hits From Any Year
๐ท Earth Day 2024: Witness our changing planet in 12 incredible satellite images | Space
โช When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
๐ฅ๏ธ Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again - The Unfortunate Technology Blame Game
๐ท Explore NASA’s Best Photos of the Year (gizmodo.com)
๐ David Mamet’s Brilliant Memo for Writer
๐ 9 Memorable Lessons from David Mamet’s Writing Staff Memo - ScreenCraft
It’s Saturday again, so I have updated my /now page where I talk about WeblogPoMo2024, some good TV, links to the 19 (!) blog posts I wrote this week and one of my favorite subscriptions, Trakt.
The battery on my M2 MacBook Air lasts so long it seems like it’s from a science fiction novel. To maximize the lifetime of the battery and to protect the environment and my wallet, I use AlDente Pro to keep my charge below 80% and to automatically run a full cycle once a month.
Everyone has their favorite moments, their favorite memories. These are mine. None of them are particularly monumental and thankfully some of them are downright commonplace. Lucky me.
Free and Cheap Web Tools For Bloggers: Graphics, Design Tools, Editors, Analytics and More
Who doesn’t like free stuff? As horrible as the web is supposed to be these days, you can still find an amazing variety of tools to help you accomplish a bunch of different things. Since I started blogging a few months ago, I’ve discovered or been turned on to several useful online services that I use to compose, illustrate and publish on the web.
Picyard
Picyard isย a free online tool that allows you to create images for social media, blog posts, presentations, and more. You can use Picyard to create images, testimonials, code snippets, QR codes and then download them as png or jpeg files.
Simple Page Builder
Simple Page Builderwill do everything you need to design a web page, up to and including helping you register for one the free hosting sites Glitch or Neocities. It explains design principals, basic coding and file management.
Hemingway Editor
The Hemingway Editor cuts the dead weight from your writing. It highlights wordy sentences in yellow and more egregious ones in red. Hemingway helps you write with power and clarity by highlighting adverbs, passive voice, and dull, complicated words. It even shows you the reading level required to understand your writing style.
Tinylytics
Tinylytics is an analytics tool for small websites. It’s designed to be simple to use and self explanatory. There is documentation on the site covering:
Canva Color Wheel
If you are advanced enough to write your own CSS, you will probably need a color reference from time to time. The Canva Color Wheel provides not only colors for your code, it also advises you on what colors work well together. I’ve even used it to help with the settings in Obsidian.
Unsplash
Unsplash is my go to web site for royalty-free stock photography. There is no need to steal graphics from Google when so much is available for free from Unsplash. The images are easy to download and they have a huge assortment for you to search by keyword.
Lex
Lex is your AI editor for Google Docs. Not only does it check your spelling and grammar, Lex also brainstorms ideas, helps to come up with titles and will do rewrites of your work in a different style. It features versioning if you need to save what you’ve already written while contemplating the edited version. Like anywhere on Google Docs, you can work with collaborators without them needing to download an app.
Free online service upscales images for you
A story from thirty years ago when I was trying to figure out how to keep three adolescents fed without going bankrupt. For WeblogPoMo20224 - Feeding Children
Today on AppAddict - Forget all the fancy apps, Raycast, the Google Gemini website, all the AI stuff on SetApp, because my favorite way to conduct a Q&A with a LLM is using this free Apple Shortcut that has a customizable prompt, transcripts and more.
Today on AppAddict - a bargain if you can find it on sale, Alarm Clock Pro has multiple alarms, world clocks, timers, stopwatches, and automates emails, texts, program launches, web pages, sleep, wake, restart and shutdown. See the full review
I decided to start off my participation in WeblogPoMo2024 with a bit of humor, so I wrote A Treatise on Office Decorations. If you are a golfer and sensitive about it, you may want to skip this one. Same for hangers of cheesy posters.
