Jack Baty

Printing my 2024 calendars using pcal

I keep printed calendars for the current year and month pinned above my desk. It's often easier to just glance up to see dates than to open a calendar on the computer/phone. I used to use timeanddate.com and that works great, but I'm now

More about Org-mode Island

Earlier, I wrote: Org-mode Island is beautiful, but lonely. Jeremy Friesen reacted to my post with his own thoughtful take on the isolation of using Org-mode: Amongst the Org-Mode Archipelago // Take on Rules Org-Mode is my home hearth. Here I prepare my food. And sometimes I bring that food, wrapped

Beyond the Infinite Denote

My Beyond the Infinite folder is now its own Denote silo. A Denote "silo" is just a folder that contains a .dir-locals.el file. The .dir-locals.el file sets the denote-directory variable, causing Denote commands to look only in that folder (and subfolders) rather than the default Denote

Not taking the photo

I have never regretted taking a photo, but I always always regret not taking one. I've been planning to do a series of environmental (large format film) portraits of my close and extended families. The idea is to travel to their homes and photograph them using natural light,

I won't be joining RSS Club

When I first learned of RSS Club I thought, "Cool! How fun!" The website says: Congratulations on joining a secret society! RSS Club is a collection of blogs (personal and otherwise) committed to providing RSS-only content. It’s like a newsletter delivered to your feed reader in order

Sending Org-journal entries to Day One

I mentioned here that I should create a lisp function for sending my org-journal entries to Day One. Turns out I'd already done it. The only problem was that the original version assumed I was using a new org file every day. I'm now doing monthly

Using old digicams

I posted a thought this morning about the current trend of using very old digicams. I can't decide if the recent trend of using old digicams is fun and nostalgic or just stupid. Dave Rogers responded with a thoughtful bit about the trend. In his post, he linked

What a blog should be?

There have been a flurry of recent posts around what one should write about or post on a personal blog. "What should a blog be?" Robin, for example, writes "I am a poem I am not software": Either way, the more boring personal websites I see

Why I still use TheBrain

TheBrain might be the original "second brain". I mean, it's right there in the name. I started using it when it was still named "PersonalBrain", sometime before 2011. At some point around the time Roam Research released Roam, I stopped using TheBrain, mostly because

Philosophy of Tiddlers

My wiki, a single TiddlyWiki file, currently contains 3,594 tiddlers. I look up something in it at least once every day. The following offers a glimpse into why: The purpose of recording and organising information is so that it can be used again. The value of recorded information is