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Day One and Slogger

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A lot of us downloaded Day One recently as it went free as part of the 5 Years of App Store promotion. I didn’t think I would write anything1. But after trying it for a few days, I’m really liking it.

If you’re using Day One and you have a Mac that’s always on2, you might want to check out Slogger by Brett Terpstra:

Slogger indexes various public social services and creates Day One (http://dayoneapp.com/) journal entries or plain text Markdown files for them. It allows you to keep a personal journal that collects your online social life automatically, all in one place.

It was pretty easy to setup, I’m running it with RVM so I had to modify the launchd plist to use the RVM generated wrapper, see this Gist.

  1. I use Timehop to go back in time by the years, it’s one of my favorite apps. ↩

  2. Or if you’re using Dropbox instead of iCloud to sync your Day One entries, you could possibly run this on any machine/server/cloud instance/droplet/node that runs Dropbox and Ruby. ↩

Current menu bar

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It’s a bit late, but finally jumped on the Bartender bandwagon. What I like most about it is the ability to only show icons when there’s activity. For example, there is no reason to have the Dropbox icon up there unless it’s syncing.

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Love Won

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In November 2008, it took me by surprised that California passed Prop 8. I turned to Reddit and Craigslist and found a photographer asking for help with his project. A couple of emails later, together with Chuin Phang, a SF massage therapist and aspiring photographer, we started DoTheLoveThing.org:

Do The Love Thing (DoTheLoveThing.org) is a non-commerical photography project. Created in response to the passage of Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriages in California, this site features images of couples and families who believe in spreading the message of love, tolerance and marriage equality.

There hasn’t been new contents on the site for a while, and I’ve only contributed one post. But it is a tiny piece of history. It’s been 5 years, love eventually won.

Update [July 3rd, 2013]: Chuin just put up a SF Pride 2013 post.

Alfred 2 Workflows

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I was a huge Quicksilver fan until I switched to Alfred. When QS went 1.0 I gave it another shot, but I still preferred Alfred. Alfred 2 got even better with the introduction of workflows. Workflow requires the Powerpack, and it’s definitely worth it.

I’ve been using Alfred 2 for a few months now, and these are the workflows I depend on:

Productivity

  • prepend to memo. I keep a memo.txt file on Dropbox, I use Drafts in iOS to prepend to it, I wanted to do the same with Alfred so I hacked up this workflow. Edit the script inside the workflow to change the destination. (now it prepends to ~/Dropbox/Notes/memo.txt)
  • quick focus on contact in Messages. It quickly focuses on a contact in Messages, very useful if you have a ton of open conversations.
  • dial with iphone. If you have Prowl on your iPhone, this workflow sends a phone number to your phone so you can dial it quickly with a single tap. You can also integrate it with the Alfred built-in contacts browser.
  • Recent Documents
  • Do Things. Quickly add tasks to Things.
  • Pocket. I switched to Pocket as my *-it-later service a while back, this workflow adds stuff to Pocket quickly.
  • Spotifious
  • Spotify Mini Player
  • Uni-Call. Quickly make all different kinds of phone and FaceTime calls. Very customizable so you can disable all the services you don’t use.
  • NLP currency converter
  • my shortcuts. Hotkeys to launch Finder, Safari, “lr” keyword to launch Lightroom. Modify to suit your own needs.

Geek

NZB

If you know what any of these things are, you will love these workflows:

Updating workflows

You can find more at alfredworkflow.com and Alfred forum, and it’s very easy to make your own.