Today on AppAddict - Keka triples the types of compressed files you can open vs. what is built into macOS. It also increases the types of compressed files you can create and adds 256-bit encryption with it’s simple drag and drop interface.
From my 100 Strangers Project - Sarah, a history teacher, dressed in antebellum clothing
Robert Birming is organizing a June blogging activity for folks who enjoyed the April Micro.blog photo challenge and this month’s WeblogPoMO2024 writing and posting exercise. You can contact me or Robert for more info.
I was 14 when the Greensboro Massacre occurred. Despite being recorded on videotape, the KKK and Nazis were able to gun down left-wing labor organizers and escape conviction in multiple trials. As an adult I met and worked with some of the survivors. Today for WeblogPoMo2024 The Greensboro Massacre
Today on AppAddict - Just Press Record is the OG of audio recording and transcription apps. It’s a $4.99 purchase in the app store and unlike some of the free apps out there, it does zero data collection.
From my 100 Strangers Project - I asked, “What’s your name, young man” and he said “Bobby, sir” and every time I see this photo, I think “There’s Bobby, sir.” That’s his sister with him. They were at a park down by the Congaree River in Columbia, SC.
Cheer up Texans and Floridians, maybe you don’t live in the most backwards states after all. Here is NC, our legislature is close to banning all masks in public even for cancer patients.
I made a Colophon at https://amerpie.lol/colophon if anyone can be arsed to take a look and see if I did it right. 24 hours ago, I didn’t even know what that word meant. Thanks to Robb Knight and his /Slash page site for the inspiration.
Our grandson Connor is kind of stoic and not given to big expressions of emotion, but last night when he found we’d been able to get a car for him that can be outfitted with the hand controls he needs because of mobility issues, he was all smiles. I can’t tell you how much I love this picture.
My rules for me - A few years back, I wrote my own secular version of the 10 Commandments (actually 12), a set of principals I wanted to try and live by. I’m not batting 1.000 but most days I come pretty close. For WeblogPoMo2024
Today on AppAddict - Lockdown Privacy Desktop - A simple free open-source firewall with pre-configured rules, a good choice if you are setting up a Mac for less advanced users or want no hassle protection.
From my 100 Strangers Project - Lydia - The very first street portrait I ever took. It was totally spontaneous. This woman walked by my wife and I on the sidewalk with our cameras and spoke to us. I instantly asked he if she let me take her photo. She told me she’d modeled some before tattoos.
When my kids were little my wife went on a trip and my daughter made a list to give her when she got home of “Mean Things Dad Did While You Were Gone”. There was one thing on the list. Allegedly, I had not only slammed a pot pie on her plate, but I had made it touch the rice already there. That’s it
Apple’s Top 10 Albums are a joke, designed 100% to pander to the demographic their market study said would be most likely to subscribe after seeing it. Aretha > Beyonce. Al Green > Fran Ocean. Where are the Stones, Led Zeppelin, REM, The Clash, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan? GTFO
Brushes With Celebrity - Celebrity culture is weird. Even if we reject it, there is still a certain feeling when a brush with it happens to us. Reflections on the feeling and an invitation to share yours today for WeblogPoMo2024.
Today on AppAddict - MusicBox is a read-it-later service, except it’s for music, not text. If you find a song or album from Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal but don’t have time to listen, add it to MusicBox where you can see it’s metadata or use shortcuts to automate things.
From my 100 Strangers Project - I didn’t even ask Bob and Sherry about the beer cans they were wearing around their necks. I’ve always loved the fun look in her eyes in this photo though.
April was the photo challenge on Micro.blog. May has been all about WeblogPoMo2024. Is there anything going in June?
Using Obsidian as a Life Record
Obsidian is powerful and extensible enough to fill many roles: academic notes, CRM, blogging center etc. One space it fills admirably is as a life record. Using a combination of native and community plugins, you can use Obsidian as a way to record every facet of your life that you want to preserve, from health metrics to media consumption.
Your Daily Note
The hub of a life record is usually the daily note. Using a template, you can record a variety of information. In my own setup, I record the following:
- Wake time
- Status (work, home, travel)
- Daily weather
- Appointments
- Things I learned
- A chronological record of the day
- Gratitude list
- Notes created that day
- Notes modified that day
- Tasks completed from my task manager (Things 3)
Other metrics that are popular to record are body weight and exercise. The Obsidian Tracker Plugin is useful for generating charts and graphs for any metic you can capture numerically.
Task Management with Things 3 and Obsidian
Media Consumption
Using RSS feeds from popular services like Goodreads (for books), Trakt (for movies and TV) and Last.fm (for music) you can automate recording your media consumption. Additionally you can gather information on video games, board games, and manga using the Media DB plugin.
Automating Obsidian - Generate Notes About Your Media Consumption via RSS - Books, TV, Movies, Music
Web Content
If you are inclined to save content from the web, there are a variety of ways to import pages into your vault. Read-it0later services like Omnivore and Readwise have plugins that automate imports. If you want to import pages on a case by case basis, you can use the browser plugin Mark Download, or community plugins like Slurp, Read It Later or Extract URL Content. There is also a bookmarklet written by Obsidian CEO u/kepano to import web pages or excerpts. On IOS, a shortcut works the best.
The Omnivore to Obsidian Connection Enhanced
All the Ways to Get Web Content Into Obsidian
MarkDownload - The Browser Extension that Works With Obsidian
One of the things people miss when transitioning from Evernote to Obsidian is the custom email address used to send information straight to their notes. Obsidian doesn’t have that feature built in but there are still ways to achieve the end result. Readwise has a “mail to Readwise” feature that will in turn import into Obsidian. My personal choice is an IFTTT applet that creates text files in my Dropbox account that are then converted to markdown and imported into my vault by Hazel, a Mac file management app.
How to Send an Email to Your Obsidian Vault
Other Info
I also keep notes on restaurants where I eat. My template has property fields for location, web site, type of cuisine and rating the body of the note has bullet points for each visit recording the day, who I was with and what I ordered.
For places I visit, I use either the MapView plugin or a Drafts action that captures geolocation.
I have a people template that records basic contact information (email, phone, address) and the body of the note is bullet points recording date and time of interactions with the person and details of the meeting/visit.
My Dataview Use Cases in Obsidian
One of my favorite things about Micro.blog and the IndyWeb in general is the international flavor. Putting the World in the WWW - for WeblogPoMo2024
