File over app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

Another vote for using local files that you can control when it comes to your apps.

Finished reading: Outlive by Peter Attia, MD 📚 The book Outlive by Peter Attia, MD is a guide to learning and planning for a long, healthy life. It is very detailed and covers the science behind it, as well as providing actionable advice. This post includes some of my notes from the book and the … read more

Currently reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

🍿 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I finished setting up Tinylytics for my blog. It provides just enough statistics for my site while staying focused on privacy.

There is something fun about being part of a new product from an indie developer (@vincent).

The Airshow podcast player (from the makers of Feedbin) has recently been updated to version 2.0 with playlist support, playback speed controls, sleep timer and UI updates.

I think it’s a great update and have truly enjoyed using it so far. A simple and minimal podcast player.

Not actively using knowledge from reading

And if they are reading books to learn things, they’re not doing anything with it. And when I say they’re not doing anything with it, they’re not actively adding it to a philosophy of practice, understanding it from an awareness of the evidence, the research, the basis of where it comes from. And I would argue many of them wouldn’t be able to have a solid argument with the points that they have consumed from whatever books they are.

Danny and Jon argue that reading books is a waste of time. I don’t agree but they have some good points.

I’m thinking about changing my newsletter to send every long post immediately after it is published. I have a couple of longer posts planned and feel like it may be a better workflow.

Personally, I only want to be emailed longer posts and rely on the Micro.blog feed for the short post updates.

The Snipd podcast app has a snipping and AI component that makes it ideal for capturing and sharing the information you obtain from podcasts.

You can even sync to Readwise and share to other services. I’ve been capturing and saving to my bookmarks’ manager, so I can reference clips later.

I’ve been a longtime user of RSS feeds, and therefore Feed Readers, such as Google Reader back in the day. I’ve gone from Google Reader to Feedly and in the past couple years have bounced around from various services such as Inoreader, Feedbin, and others. Hundreds of feeds As a result, I’ve … read more

Currently reading: The Song of Significance by Seth Godin 📚

Creative burnout: when the creativity tap runs dry

Look at your past work. Because creative burnout often comes with self-doubt, it’s easy to forget all our past accomplishments and focus on our present challenges instead. Go browse your past work, both the good and the bad. If it’s good, remember how it wasn’t easy to produce. If it’s bad, look at how much progress you have made. Channel the feelings you experience while reviewing your past work to overcome your self-doubt.

This is something i want to be better about. I’m always looking ahead and forget all the things I’ve accomplished.

My daughter had a great Day of softball yesterday. She had three diving catches, one of them prevented us from losing the game.

She also hit an in the park home run. She’s so fast she’s like a blur going around the bases.

So proud of her.

I’ve always struggled to commit to using Apple Notes as my main notes app because it is difficult to get notes out. While some apps and tools are available to help with bulk exporting from Apple Notes, it still feels like a lock in. The other reason is, while I think Apple notes is great for … read more

I moved all of my bookmarks from Raindrop to Anybox today. I’m not certain if it will be a permanent change yet. They are both bookmarking services that allow you to capture web bookmarks, images, files, etc. The process was simple. Export my Raindrop bookmarks as an HTML file. Import the HTML file … read more

I took a day off a while ago to hang out at home and do whatever I wanted. Today is that day! My weekends are usually packed with softball, travel, and family activities, so I rarely have the chance to relax and do whatever I feel like. It’s important to take a step back sometimes.

Driving through Alabama to get to a softball tournament. We got stuck waiting for some construction but had a great view.

Ghost now has a Chrome extension that allows you to bookmark websites to a draft post in your account quickly. This is an excellent feature if you use Ghost to create a curation newsletter. I missed this feature from the Twitters Revue newsletter service.

I have not watched everything from the Apple Keynote yet.

Vision Pro looks impressive but still seems ridiculous to wear, especially during the life moments that you don’t want to miss.

To watch through some goggles to record the moment seems over the top. Yet, the result could be pretty sweet.

I’ve heard rumors of a Journaling app from Apple.

I discovered there is a new Shortcut from Apple called Remember This.

The shortcut asks what you want to remember and then if you want to include a photo. It appends your response to a single note for each day.

I wonder if this is all we’re getting?