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šŸ› ļø Obsidian Plugin: Daily Notes Editor

Displays all your daily notes in a single editor tab, much like Roam Research. This was a feature I liked about Roam, and when I first looked at Obsidian, I wish it had it. Trying it out on my personal vault, where the daily notes tend to be quite small.

Auto-generated description: A digital document features dated notes with navigation features, modal keypresses, and task lists, displayed in a note-taking application interface.

Since I’m not a huge user of iCloud, the fact that I only have 5 GB doesn’t offend me. But seeing the breakdown of my storage usage, I can understand why people think Apple is being unreasonable here. To use up 80% of the available storage and leave a measly 1 GB for personal use is not great.

Auto-generated description: A summary of iCloud storage usage shows 4.4 GB used out of 5 GB, with details on backup, photos, and documents, and an upgrade option is offered.

Logged into the iCloud web-portal for the first time today (I completely forgot that there was a web portal). I don’t know if this is a thing many people use, but it’s… okay. A little slow, but potentially useful for those times when you can’t access something via native apps.

Auto-generated description: A digital dashboard displays sections for Photos, Reminders, and Mail, along with a user profile labeled Leon.

There is also a sense that it’s a little flimsy, that if you push too hard it will fall over. Can’t quite put my finger on why that is, but I think it’s all the small, thin fonts and pale colours. Just feels a little fragile.

My first automation to assist me with this “issue driven development” approach: a Keyboard Maestro macro which will activate Obsidian, go to the end of the document, and add a new line beginning with the current time.

Auto-generated description: A configuration window for creating a new timestamped line in Obsidian, detailing trigger options and actions.

My goal is to have one Obsidian note per Jira task, which I will have open when I’m actively working on it. When I want to record something, like a decision or passing thought, I’ll press Cmd+Option+Ctrl+L to fire this macro, and start typing. Couldn’t resist adding some form of automation for this, but hey: at least it’s not some hacked-up, makeshift app this time.

Devlog: Blogging Tools — Ideas For Stills For A Podcast Clips Feature

I recently discovered that Pocketcasts for Android have changed their clip feature. It still exists, but instead of producing a video which you could share on the socials, it produces a link to play the clip from the Pocketcasts web player. Understandable to some degree: it always took a little bit of time to make these videos. But hardly a suitable solution for sharing clips of private podcasts: one could just listen to the entire episode from the site.