Stuff In praise of Milanote There are a lot of fancy note-taking apps out there at the moment and, as regular reader will know, I have tried them ALL. I still use various ones for various things, and I still waste a decent amount of time flitting between them when my restless brain is searching,
Stuff Point Nemo Fans of the Lovecraft Investigations, and Lovecraft generally, may be interested to read this extraordinary piece from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/point-nemo-most-remote-place/679947/
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Stuff A new App Stack - July 2024 The first half of this year has been pretty busy with writing projects, and the meat of my procrastination has involved venturing down the usual rabbit holes of new productivity and notes apps. Now that I’m slowly coming up for air, it becomes apparent that I have pretty much
Stuff On Paper It’s increasingly rare that I get excited about apps nowadays - it just seems like the more you play with a new toy, the more shortcomings you find. This is especially true with the current iterate-as-you-go methodology, which sees apps released to the public before they are really ready.
Stuff 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
Stuff 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
Stuff Wednesday Links I am not always finding the inspiration to post here every day, but I'm hopefully warming up to it. The least I can do is throw some interesting links your way. I discovered EPIC SPACEMAN recently. This video is amazing: And a few articles that are really worth
Stuff A realisation... As I plunge into yet another notes app (UpNote this time, which is excellent), I am hit with the sudden realisation that this is the purest of pure procrastination. When I have an idea that actually needs to be noted down, I will grab whatever is to hand - a
Stuff Currently reading... I'm midway through "The Fraud" by Zadie Smith, which is brilliant. This is the first time I've read a Zadie Smith novel, and the level of craft is insane - it's an intricate puzzle made up of tiny pieces, each of which
Stuff Monday links Beatles photographs by Paul McCartney; a BRILLIANT piece on San Francisco by Rebecca Solnit; a superyacht that turns into a submarine...
