I use Capture Templates in Org Mode for all sorts of things. Frequently, I want to capture something to a date tree, which automatically organizes entries by Year->Month->Day. The usual way of doing this is to specify the target file as part of the capture template, like this… 1 2 3 ("d" "Daybook" entry (file+datetree "~/org/daybook.org") "* %?\n%t") What I also wanted to do was capture to a date tree in the buffer I’m already visiting.

A photograph becomes real only when it’s printed. I love photographic prints of all kinds. This is why I’ve loved the Fuji Instax cameras. All you get is a print. No muss no fuss. The Fuji Instax210 has been fun, but let’s face it, it’s kind of ugly. The later versions are better, but still not great. I loved the Lomo’Instant Wide the moment I saw it. Especially the “Central Park” version, so I bought one.

I’m not going to write a long review or anything, but I did want to say that I love the new Apple AirPods. They are the most Apple-like new product I’ve used in a long time. After using the AirPods for a few days, one wonders what the hell every Bluetooth headphone maker has been doing for the past decade. I’ll forgive Apple the Siri-only interaction model with this round, but they need to fix that.

Film Is Not Dead: We are very much pro film, in favour of film! Film is our heritage and we’ll continue to look at these opportunities and the one we can look at today is Ektachrome. — T. J. Mooney, Kodak Alaris I haven’t shot any color reversal film since Kodachrome went away, but I may have to dust off the JOBO and mix up some E6 chemistry soon.

I haven’t been “on” Twitter since the first of the year. As of today that means it’s been a whole week. It sounds stupid just saying that, “A whole week.” Big deal. But, it’s been surprisingly difficult to stay away. I realized that I was using Twitter as an excuse to do nothing useful. I’d scroll and click and scroll and click and I loved it. So what’s the problem? The problem is that I was always looking for something new to do, or more likely, just hoping to be entertained.

I don’t use the Touch Bar on my MacBook Pro for anything other than Function keys and Touch ID. I love having Touch ID on a Mac, but man I sure miss having real Function and Escape keys. Maybe I’ll learn new behavior over time. Maybe there really is a decent use for the Touch Bar. Right now though, I would swap the Touch Bar for actual keys in a heartbeat.

Dave Pell: But I’m a grown-ass man. I’m not some punk you can distract by making me ponder which version of black I want on my next iPhone. I want the same keyboard I’ve been getting the hang of for the last decade. I want the same form-factor. I want what’s coming to me. I want the best consumer computing device ever put on a store’s shelf. I want a new MacBook Air.

I ran into the word Akrasia again recently and it reminded me of myself: Akrasia (əˈkreɪzɪə; Greek ἀκρασία, “lacking command”). …a lack of self-control or the state of acting against one’s better judgement. The adjectival form is “akratic” I think about this sort of thing in January, naturally. I had first heard of Akrasia when I was actively using Beeminder a few years ago. I’m not sure why I quit using Beeminder (well I do, but I’ll never admit it).

In some cases I prefer to edit files using Markdown rather than Org Mode. Marked App works great for previewing Markdown and quickly sharing or saving in various formats. The Marked Bonus Pack contains a bit of Lisp for sending my current Emacs buffer to Marked for preview… 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (defun markdown-preview-file () "use Marked 2 to preview the current file" (interactive) (shell-command (format "open -a 'Marked 2.

I don’t know what to use mlkshk for, even though I’ve been a paid user for several years. What I do know is that Mlkshk is so quirky and different that I’m planning to find a place for it in 2017. Here’s mine: http://mlkshk.com/user/jackbaty Update 02/22/2017: This from MLKSHK today: “We are closing MLKSHK. 🙁 ” I was mostly inactive, but still paid, user. I wanted them to succeed.

For the past couple of years, I’ve used a “Stamp” in Tinderbox to append weather conditions to the current note’s text. See Recording The Weather In Tinderbox for background. While preparing my Daybook for 2017 I decided I wanted to include just the current condition and temperature rather than the entire weather summary. The following script grabs the weather (using wu) and returns either just the current conditions and temperature or, if a date is passed, it returns summary information for that date.

Shaun Inman: As of today I’m officially suspending sales and support of Mint and Fever. But! As self-hosted software, absolutely nothing changes and you can continue using both Mint and Fever as you were yesterday. That’s a shame. I’ve used Mint for many years and for my purposes it’s been nearly perfect. As Shaun says, I can keep using it indefinitely, which is what I plan to do.