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Workflow

A collection of 18 posts

Using the reMarkable 2 as Read-Later device

I know, I know, the reMarkable 2 tablet is designed as a digital replacement for writing on paper. It's not necessarily meant as a document reader. But that's what I've been using it for. For years now I've saved web articles as

Nuke & Pave - the half-hearted edition

"Nuke & Pave" typically means wiping a computer's hard drive and installing everything from scratch. That's not what I'm doing (although it is tempting). What I'm doing is more like a precision strike. (I'll stop using military analogies,

Additional backups

Derek Sivers posted about how he handles backups and it got me thinking about how I handle backups. I feel like I'm mostly covered. I use Backblaze on my MacBook Pro for continuous, off-site backups of both the internal SSD and the attached "Media" drive containing

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

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&

Lightroom it is, I guess

I canceled my Capture One subscription this morning, before they charged me $180 for another year. I hadn’t planned to do this. The plan was to cancel my Lightroom subscription ($10/month) and run with C1 for the year. Capture One has more to offer, and I like the

The care and feeding of my system

Yesterday, for some reason, the menu bar stopped showing when launching Emacs. Good grief. I had to add an explicit call to (menu-bar-mode) in my init.el. Why? Who knows. I'm sure I did something to cause it, but my commit logs don't point to anything

Reduce & Simplify

If forced to come up with a theme for 2024, I'm going with "Reduce & Simplify".