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A collection of 28 posts

Whatever happened to my junk drawer?

In a post from 2013, Digital Recordkeeping, I summed up my tools like this: Tinderbox is my notebook. Evernote is my junk drawer. DEVONthink is my filing cabinet. I was onto something back then. It has occurred to me is that I no longer have a dedicated tool to use

Creating a WARC web archive using wget

I’ve been tinkering with keeping offline copies of websites (mostly mine), and have always used either wget or httrack. I wasn’t aware of the WARC format until recently, so I thought I’d try creating a few WARC archives. wget, as it happens, has WARC support built in

Software that sparks joy

I’m just coming off a week using Obsidian. Obsidian is really good and powerful and easy to use and extensible and probably the correct answer to the question, “Where should I keep my notes?”. I love Obsidian for a minute because of what it does and the fact that

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

Logseq is so close

I've spent some time this week toying with the idea of using Logseq for my daily logging. I prefer writing in outliners and Logseq's outline-based blocks are handy and easy to deal with. Linking is fast and easy. There are queries for when I need to

Subscription changes

I dug through my list of subscriptions yesterday and made a few changes. First, a couple of smaller changes. I canceled Photomator and Photo Scan. Photomator is great, and I may come to regret losing it. But for now, I don't shoot much with my phone and if

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

App Defaults (2023 Edition)

C’mon, everyone’s doin’ it. Here is my list of default apps (in alphabetical order by task): * Backups: Backblaze, Arq * Blogging: What day is it? I mean Kirby. * Calendar: BusyCal, Apple Calendar * Chat: Apple Messages, Signal * Clipboard Manager: Raycast * Code Editor: Emacs * File Manager: Forklift, Dired (Emacs) * Journaling: Org-journal

Subscriptions

Update I'll keep this list updated here. A few folks1 have been posting about their current subscriptions. Here is a list of my subscriptions, in alphabetical order, because I didn’t want to try categorizing them. * 1Password: $5 – Apple’s password manager needs to improve a lot before