Jack Baty

Fending off the Futz Monkey

Mike Hall's daily notes resonate with me again with a post (mostly) about futzing with stuff. It's like he's in my head when he writes about "keeping the futz monkey off my back." I'm in my version of a similar

A brief flashback into Lightroom

For some reason I've been thinking about installing Lightroom again. Of course earlier this year I decided that I was only going to use Capture One and I completely uninstalled everything from Adobe. I prefer Capture One "sessions" to its catalogs because cataloging in C1 has

Searching in Mutt with Notmuch

I'm on a Mutt kick again lately. One thing I've never loved about Mutt is that searching large archives can be slow. I'm used to the nearly instantaneous response when using Notmuch for search. To help with this, I've switched to using

Mutt's halo effect

Mutt is "...a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems". I first used Mutt sometime around 2002 and continued using it on and off for a decade or more. Eventually I moved on to easier ways of handling email. Recently, for whatever reason, I

Hanging up the Hobonichi

I really like the Hobonichi Techo notebook/planners. I've had one sitting on my desk since 2013. The trouble is, I haven't been using it much. I normally start out the year with a flurry of sketches and planning and logging. Even though that tapers off

Ordered a Kobo Libra 2

I have a first and second-generation Kindle Oasis, a Kobo Forma, and I prefer reading paper books, so of course I've ordered a Kobo Libra 2. But why? It started when I plugged the Forma into my Mac and clicked the "Send to Device" button on

Deleted 21 apps

I uninstalled 21 apps off my Mac this morning. This happened because I had launched NotePlan, Obsidian, The Archive, and Logseq within an hour of each other. They're all great. I launch each one because "oh, this feature is great" or "I love this behavior&

Paper is great

I'm really into paper-based tools lately. This is often a reaction to over-thinking my (digital) note-taking process. And oh my have I been over-thinking that process lately. Using paper is more work, but it's worth it. Here are a few random thoughts I've had

Combining my RSS feeds using RSS-Bridge

There's this dream I have in which I've combined all of my websites into a single place where I post everything. It's glorious. Then, I wake up and remember the mess of sites I've scattered far and wide. I'm learning

My wiki is priceless

Today I think out loud about my wiki wiki.baty.net. The wiki (built using TiddlyWiki) is chock full of old notes and ideas and journal entries. 3,674 of them since 2018, to be precise. I need to remember this whenever I drift away from using it as a