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2024-06-16

A link to my first longform piece.

2024-06-11

Glancing through MyMind this morning, I surfaced this piece: How to Stop Having All Your Digital Information Scattered All Over the Place, which seemed unusually pertinent. I am struggling with too many PKM options at the moment. Each time I think I've found the sweet spot, some app

2024-06-10

I’m writing this in Scrintal, as a way to kick the tyres on an app that I have not really paid too much attention to up until now. A few pieces I’ve read recently by Ece Kural, the creator, most recently this one, indicate that there are some

2024-05-14

Have been diving into Heptabase over the last week or so, and so far it seems to leave most other PKM/notes apps in the dust. From an aesthetic/semantic point of view, I like that entries are cards and not documents. The actual difference is non-existent, but the idea

2024-05-08

Often the images I choose for my daily note are minimalist; empty pages, blank canvases. I like these as a reminder that everything is possible, nothing has been written yet. It's easy to get caught in tram-lines when you're writing a script. Possibilities narrow and you

2024-05-07

Tempted to start thinking about a trip to Amsterdam sometime soon, this notion partly prompted by an article on my favourite hotel there: This Amsterdam hotel suite pays homage to the city’s floral heritage - The Spaces On deck today: Delivery of a pilot script to Amazon, starting a

2024-04-26

It's FRIDAY! Recently, I have started earmarking Fridays as the time to work on my own stuff, so it is no longer (deadlines permitting) a work-for-hire day. We always have a company meet on Friday afternoons, so that takes a chunk of the day. But outside of that,

2024-04-25

First day back using Cal Newport's Time Block Planner in a while, but my digital planning systems have fallen down, due to some kind of glitch between Notion and Akiflow, which is being looked into by the Akiflow guys right now. In the meantime, I'm enjoying

2024-04-23

Finished Chapter Two of the third Aldrich Kemp series yesterday. Starting Chapter 3 today. Devoting much of today to planning - I have several scripts on the go, but they all need to go on pause while I dive into Plottr and move the structure around to make sense of

2024-04-22

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly - J. Robert Oppenheimer Spent some time last night reading Elizabeth Butler, MD, PhD | Productivity and personal knowledge management, which has a lot of interesting stuff within it. I&

2024-04-21

This daily note is being created in Capacities, which has had some updates recently and seems worth keeping on top of. Capacities is terrific for world-building, but I've often struggle with it as a more universal notes app. The Capacities team seem to working hard to get the

2024-04-19

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. Carl Jung Off to be interviewed this morning for the Beyond The Vale podcast. Those interviews are always fun, but usually

2024-04-18

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton Perhaps these daily notes I write to myself in Obsidian could be interesting as posts on Cartoon Gravity? They will at least help to mark our passage around the sun.

New York, 2024

A handful of New York shots

Blot Update

I don't know whether it's Blot itself, or Bear, or Dropbox, but SOMETHING is going badly wrong with the Blot feed; duplicate posts, tags appearing, images all over the shop. It's probably an easy fix but, given that I have no real use case

Wow

This house is AMAZING.

Blot

Dipping my toe in the waters of Blot...

Paris at night

Some night-time shots from the weekend.

Well done, humans

Well done, humans

Sometimes, just sometimes, it's possible to set aside all the terrible things that are happening in the world and just take a few minutes to marvel at what human beings are capable of. Here are three of those minutes:

John McPhee - Editors and Publisher

John McPhee - Editors and Publisher

I'm currently nursing a small obsession with John McPhee, a non-fiction writer of countless books and longread magazine pieces. His "Draft No.4" is one of the best books on writing I've ever read. It's a collection of New Yorker pieces, of

Bear is back!

The return of the best notes app ever.

Wednesday links

Wednesday links

A few links for a grey Wednesday...

The Voyager keyboard

The Voyager keyboard

This is going to be the slowest entry I have ever typed on here. Yesterday I took delivery of a Voyager keyboard, which is an insane piece of kit, and am now embarking on the very steep curve of learning to type on it. The keyboard comes with a comprehensive

On Capacities, 2024

On Capacities, 2024

A catch-up with Capacities