OMG - my Open.AI account finally refunded, meaning I spent $5 since November 29 - with almost daily use of some sort.
How to Send an Email to Your Obsidian Vault
If you are a Mac user who doesn’t mind hacking together a few common services and applications, you can configure a way to use your email client, even on Windows or from iOS or Android, to get emails into your Obsidian vault.
What You’ll Need
Besides an email client and a working copy of Obsidian, you’ll need the following:
- An account at IFTTT.com
- An account at Dropbox
- A copy of Hazel by Noodlesoft Software
IFTTT
Start by enabling Email Integrations - Connect Your Apps with IFTTT. This will give you an email address to which you can forward emails to trigger this sequence of events. The specific applet you’ll need can be access here.
Dropbox
You can use any folder in your Dropbox account, just make sure it’s one where you’ve set up selective sync so the file actually ends up on your hard drive and not in the shadowy netherworld where Apple currently likes to relegate files from cloud services. I like to use a free Dropbox client from Maestral that actually lets me keep my files in the root of my home directory instead in the cloud services folder in the ~/library.
Hazel
If you aren’t familiar with Hazel by Noodlesoft, it is is a utility software for macOS that automates file organization and management tasks based on user-defined rules. It can perform actions like moving, renaming, deleting files, running scripts, and more, based on various criteria such as name, type, date, or content.
The rule you’ll make will rename the text file you created by emailing the IFTTT address. It will give the file a “.md” extension so that Obsidian will recognize it. Then it will move the renamed file into a folder you choose within your Obsidian vault. Mine is originally named “Email”. This works best if you a Mac that’s always on, but if you don’t, Hazel will run the rule as soon as you log in to you device.
Another Method
Quick and Dirty Prototyp- Receive Mail for Obsidian - dit und dat
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If you’ve been wondering if you should watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith…yeah, you should. Donald Glover and Maya Erskine have some of the best chemistry I’ve even seen on screen!
Why the Right Hates Public Education
I wrote this 10 years ago today and it’s just as true today as it was then.
Well, I’m just going to say it. Here’s why education is under attack…And why the legislature is getting away with it. 1) There is a nationwide movement under way to characterize all public employees as lazy and overpaid 2) Teaching is still seen as a woman’s profession 3) The media and its consumers love stories about how our students are underperforming without actually investigating the validity of those claims 4) Education is the largest part of the state budget. Any money saved there can be used for tax cuts. 5) Channeling money to religious schools through vouchers panders to the religious right.6) The right-wing legislators who caused this get elected because too many voters are convinced that ALL tax money goes to lazy poor people.
Cory Doctorow is good at the Internet.
Cardinal, back yard, the year I became friends with all the birds.
The weekly update to my /now page, with my thoughts on True Detective: Night Country, some of what I’ve written this week, info on cross posting exploration and what I’m enjoying. Amerpie/now
I put together an updated collection of links to share, part blogroll, part blogging tools, part web geek fun stuff, part curiosities. It’s my first shot at something like this but it’s something i enjoy adding to each morning over a cup of coffee. Amerpie’s Bookmark Page
Phanpy - A Web-Based Mastodon Client with Features You Have to Pay for Elsewhere - Check it out!
Summary - A web-based Mastodon client with some useful features; 1) Visually separate original posts and re-shared posts (boosted posts), 2) Nested comments thread - Effortlessly follow conversations. Semi-collapsible replies. 3)Similar notifications are grouped and collapsed to reduce clutter. 4) By default, single column for zen-mode seekers. Configurable multi-column for power users. 5)Up to 5 hashtags combined into a single timeline.
Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad, North Carolina
Google just killed cached pages
Whenever Google crawled a web page, the company would take and store a snapshot, giving users an archived view. The feature acted as backup, allowing you to load a website in the event it was down. In addition, it made it easy to compare and see if any changes had been made to a web page.
App of the Day: Due, a Hybrid Reminders and Alarm Clock App
Due is a hybrid of a reminders app and an alarm clock. You can set one time or persistent reminders for things like moving the trash to the curb, clocking in or out at work, changing the filter in your Britta, the time you need to make a phone call or visit someone’s office. You can’t ignore Due. It’s alarms repeat every minute on the minute until you turn them off, up to five times by default and configurable up to ten times. It also has reusable precise countdown timers for things you repeat constantly like brewing tea. It has natural language input capabilities. It’s a snap to set up a reminder on the fly. It cost $7.99 for all the features it has right now and has an IAP to insure your rights to upgrades. There is even a Mac app that syncs via iCloud. I’ve had Due on my homescreen since iOS 4. You should add it to yours.
Texas Lake, located on Ft. Liberty, NC
Something big is being announced by the Browser Company today #Arc = just got an email full of promises:
- Our belief in a new category of software
- 4 new features that hint at the next chapter for Arc
- And what we mean by a browser that browses for you
# Two Helpful Dataview Snippets for Obsidian
I like to have a note in my vault that shows all the notes created on the current day. I’ve been using a query that I have to update each day with the new date but I recently got a great tip from the Obsidian forum. Now I have a dynamically updated note that resets each day at midnight. You can use the dataview query below to achieve the same thing. (Note - You must have the dataview community plugin installed)
```dataview
LIST WHERE contains(creation-date, date(today))
SORT file.name DESC
```
To further this idea, I decided I’d like to have a section of my daily note listing all the files created on that particular day. Obviously, i can’t use a dynamic variable for this or the data would change depending on what date I opened the note. Returning once again to the Obsidian forum, I got the solution to this problem as well. I use the following dataview query under a level two heading of “Notes Created Today”
```dataview
LIST WHERE creation-date = this.creation-date
```
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I was going to delete Indie App Santa from my phone as all good things come to an end but I’ll be damned if the folks behind it haven’t managed to keep it going. Who doesn’t love a deal (or a gift)?
A male eclectus parrot, one of the world’s most beautiful birds.
I knew this day was coming. I’ve been using #Evernote for 16 years. It’s integration with IFTTT, the web clipper and the mail to Evernote feature are all valuable parts of my workflow. I’m trying to rely on #Obsidian these days but I think I’ll bite the bullet and pay for one more year.
To worship at the altar of mega-scale and to convince yourself that you should be the one making world-historic decisions on behalf of a global citizenry that did not elect you and may not share your values or lack thereof, you have to dispense with numerous inconveniences—humility and nuance among them.
THE RISE OF TECHNO-AUTHORITARIANISM, The Atlantic
The geek in me is celebrating the conversion of a 236-line CSV file to markdown files this morning. Now the quote collection I’ve been piecing together for years is in #Obsidian instead of an iOS app that’s been deprecated since 2016. It’s the little things.