ThoughtAsylum

Earlier this year, Drafts version 26 was released with support for custom syntaxes and themes.

I recently updated my Macbook Pro to macOS Monterey, and with it I got access to running Shortcuts on the Mac.

Mermaid is a popular web-based diagramming tool that allows you to generate a variety of visualisations based on sets of text instructions that tell Mermaid how to generate the diagram.

Obsidian is a popular tool for managing notes in Markdown format.

Recently I was working on an update to an Alfred workflow, and at triggering the workflow from another application.

The personal knowledge management application Obsidian has a built in templating system that allows you to insert boiler plate text into an Obsidian note.

During 2020/2021, the world has seen significant changes in how we have lived our lives.

Obsidian is my current personal knowledge management tool of choice.

Zettelkasten has quite a buzz about it these days.

One of the new features in the new Apple beta OS releases that people seemed to have had some confusion about are Tab Groups.

Last year I published a post about how I was using Keyboard Maestro along with a Python script that accesses titlecaseconverter.com to convert titles into a specified style.

Last week, Zalaris published the bi-annual set of articles reviewing the details of the upcoming SuccessFactors release.

For me, 2021 has been a busy year to date.

For anyone using a Mac for an extended period of time and looking for ways to do things better, the chances are that you will have come across the name Brett Terpstra.

Building on my recent spate of Alfred workflow posts, it’s time to share my most complex workflow to date, and it is for one of my favourite applications, Drafts.

If you speak to anyone who more than dabbles in automation on macOS, Keyboard Maestro is almost certainly going to be a utility that gets mentioned.

Recently I’ve been working on smartening up some of my personal workflows for Alfred, the launcher application for macOS.

After my appearance on the Automators podcast, there was a pleasant boost in interest in the ThoughtAsylum Action Group Suite for Drafts.

Towards the end of 2020 I was caught by surprise and asked to appear as a guest on one of my favourite podcasts; Automators from Relay.fm.

This is a brief post that addresses an obstacle I find myself coming across quite frequently when I’m working with images on my Mac.

I’ve been a long time user of Markdown and have found it a convenient format in which to capture notes and documentation day to day.

Late last year, I got involved in a discussion on the Drafts forum about resolving an issue with a Bear action that was a little outdated, and more recently in an ongoing thread about importing content from Bear into Drafts.

As a passionate user of the Drafts app by AgileTortoise, I usually spend at least some time each day on the Drafts forums catching up on the latest news and discussions, and helping other users with their queries where I can.

I am an avid creator of Shortcuts on Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, and also of Elgato’s Stream Deck hardware that provides me with additional dynamic trigger buttons to use on both my personal Mac and my work PC.

As you may already know, the Drafts app by AgileTortoise is a highly flexible application, and through it’s actions functionality, it effectively provides a framework through which to create customisable operations such as those you might find with plug-i…

For the past week, Zalaris has been publishing its usual series of articles to cover the upcoming SuccessFactors release.

As 2020 closes out, SAP brings a final instalment of SuccessFactors updates, and Employee Central Service Centre (ECSC) carries with it, numerous tweaks and more than a few new features.

It’s really rewarding when people get some benefit from the things that I’ve shared.

I’ve been a long time Evernote user and while the application and services have certainly seen a lot of issues arising in the last decade, I still rely on it for some of my workflows.

Back in July of this year (2020), I released the first version of the TADpoLe library for Mac app Drafts, and with it the ThoughtAsylum action group.

XYplorer is one of my favourite Windows apps and it has been a little while since I’ve shared anything about how I’m using it.

SuccessFactors may be on bi-annual releases, but SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C) continues apace on its quarterly-release cycle.

When developing JavaScript for drafts, logging to the console or using well-placed alerts and other visual indicators can be useful for what is going on, but a more advanced logging solution can make things much easier.

I’ve recently been working on a new project (more on that soon I hope), where I have been titling content.

When I’m creating Drafts actions and testing them out, I quite often need test data to work with.

While I definitely tested the update mechanism for the ThoughtAsylum Drafts Library, somehow between testing and release a small change crept in that has resulted in at least one user (probably more) not being able to easily refresh the library, which is…

Drafts has a hugely powerful area known as action.

Slash commands are something that I think rose to prominence through the Slack collaboration platform.

The Drafts application is an amazing tool for capturing and working with text.

With the introduction of the TADpoLe library, I’m able to share an action via the ThoughtAsylum Drafts action group that I think a lot of people who write for the web may find useful.

I’ve been a user of the Drafts app for many years, and while I have written some posts and regularly try to help people out on the Drafts forum, I’m quite excited to be sharing the first of a couple of bigger Drafts related projects I’ve been working on.

A few months back I posted some instructions on the Automators podcast forums that I thought it would be worth re-posting here as it seems there are quite a few people out there who would like to utilise Shortcuts to control their computers from the comma…

Back in November last year, I finally made the switch away from SquareSpace to Jekyll and Github Pages.

SAP have begun a new phasing for their 2020 releases by moving to a biannual release.

It may be the first SuccessFactors release of 2020, but we are already up to the second release for Employee Central Service Centre, as Cloud for Customer (C4C) remains on a quarterly release cycle.

SAP has been pushing hard over the last couple of years to up their game regarding mobile support.

It is time for the patient users of SuccessFactors Learning to be rewarded.

Back in 2017, Spotify made a rather curious change to their web player app.

Drafts is utilitarian text app available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that I use frequently.

The first SuccessFactors release of 2020 is just around the corner, and with it will come the release of the new SuccessFactors Learning administrator user interface.