ThoughtAsylum

Recently I was exporting some web pages in PDF format.

There is a wonderfully powerful utility app on the app called TextSoap that has been around on the Mac long before I ever really started using Macs.

I’ve been using an Apple Watch for several years now, and currently own a series 4.

Like many people, my day job involves a PC.

I recently moved into a new house and have finally been able to begin looking more seriously at my home automation options.

Whether I’m at home, or travelling, I often find I want to access my home-based Mac Mini from my Macbook Pro.

Writing blog posts is something that I generally struggle to make time to do.

Drafts, by AgileTortoise, is my ubiquitous note app.

An online forum is a great place to ask questions and generally seek advice on what you want to do with technology.

I was listening to a recent Automators podcast episode on hardware launchers when a device was mentioned that caught my interest.

Last year I wrote several posts about using Hookmark (neé Hook) to link to automation documentation.

Since I began using Jekyll as the static site generator for my web sites, I have been hosting locally while I modify structural changes and write the content prior to publishing.

In many of my posts I share solutions to technical challenges I have come across.

With a relatively recent update around views in the beta of Readwise’s Reader service beta, I am now getting deeper into its use and building it into my various workflows in an aim to help me better manage and process the various feeds of information I ha…

While Drafts is my ever present information capture app, Obsidian is the destination for a large amount of that information as I build the content into cross-referenced, meaningful notes.

Last summer I created a Drafts action for a user to allow them to mark some text in IA writer’s Markdown syntax for a highlight.

A few days ago I published a post about a change to how I am managing my daily tasks in Obsidian.

My use of Obsidian as a personal knowledge management (PKM) tool sees me making extensive use of daily notes.

Practically, since Apple made Shortcuts available on the Mac, Drafts has supported executing Drafts and processing the return.

Yesterday I posted some details around using Shortcuts to send a new note to Obsidian.

Something I have seen come up time and again is the use of Apple Shortcuts to create content inside of an Obsidian vault.

Computer systems have been managing data for us since their inception, and these days we have sophisticated systems that do so at an incredible rate and with accuracy far exceeding human standards.

I have been using Obsidian as my personal knowledge management app of choice now for a few years, and recently I have been modifying one of my note vaults to a new indexing system.

My efforts to link together my documentation and automation took a little jump forward recently with a new beta of the code library utility called SnippetsLab.

You may have heard of Doctor Drafts.

There was a recent discussion on the Drafts Slack group (used mainly by beta testers), about action editing and I shared a little trick I use for creating action templates that give me a quick start.

Like many computer users, I work with text a lot, and I am thankful every day for the first person who came up with the idea of copy and paste.

Tags are commonplace in computer systems these days.

As organisations grow, reliably managing HR enquiries at scale becomes more pressing.

I am fortunate enough to have a couple of Mac computers.

Better Touch Tool now includes (beta) support for the Elgato Stream Deck, and I’ve been investigating how I can make good use of this functionality.

Today’s post is a quick one about something I find quite useful when working in Drafts on my Mac.

Earlier this week I wrote about how I was using Hook and Obsidian to support my documentation of automations.

In my post yesterday, I described how I was using Obsidian and Hook to help me support my documentation of automations.

For anyone who follows me on this blog or anywhere else, you are probably familiar with the fact that I enjoy automating things.

This is the third and final post in my introductory series for the Pimoroni Badger 2040.

I recently wrote about getting set up for working with a Pimoroni Badger 2040, a small piece of hardware that functions as a programmable eInk badge.

As soon as I had attended my first external work event and been issued a cheap paper badge, I began wondering why conference organisers were not using digital badges using eInk technology.

Last year I released Conductor, my Alfred workflow for working with Keyboard Maestro.

Last year I wrote a post about automation with Templater for Obsidian.

I write a lot of things in a plain text format known as Markdown.

Anyone who has been following my efforts over the last few months may have noted that I have occasionally made reference to migrating from Evernote to DEVONthink.

In my day job, I work on Windows, and XYplorer is my file manager of choice due to it’s configurability and extensibility through scripting.

Yesterday, I was catching up on some reading and I came across something rather exciting - The Ubiquitous Linking Manifesto.

With the public release of macOS Monterey, I have been trying out a few ways of interacting with Shortcuts from a number of automation tools.

A few weeks ago I released version 1 of an Alfred workflow called Bypass.

Last year I decided to spruce up my home office for Christmas a little bit, by using an LED light strip around the cupboard door that sits behind my desk.

When I am writing blog posts for this web site, I frequently need to take screenshots on my Mac and put them into the relevant assets directory to enable them to be included in my post.

Over the past year or two, transclusion is a topic that has come up several times in the Drafts forum, particularly in the context of other apps for personal knowledge management (PKM), such as Obsidian, Roam Research and Logseq to name just a few.

With the seasons changing again, it is time to take another look at the developments in SAP SuccessFactors.