I used Curt Clifton’s Populate Template Placeholders script in OmniFocus on my Mac a while back. I don’t know when or why this stopped working, but I assume it was when OmniFocus 4 came out. But rather than spend time troubleshooting it, I decided to switch my birthday reminder template to Apple Shortcuts. The benefit… Continue reading Using Folders in the Add TaskPaper Shortcut for OmniFocus
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Notic Meet Update
I haven’t written much about Notic recently, so I thought I best let you know where I’m at with it. Progress has been slow recently. The main changes are just switching to Mongo Atlas from a managed Digital Ocean database. The change was relatively painful, given no live data to migrate. After several attempts to… Continue reading Notic Meet Update
How I Plan to Write a Thousand Words a Day
I recall reading a blog post by Nathan Barry several years ago about writing 1,000 words a day. Back then, it struck me at how simple the idea was, but I quickly learned that being consistent at this is incredibly difficult. Many people who want to tackle this challenge will be able to come up… Continue reading How I Plan to Write a Thousand Words a Day
Switched to Fathom Analytics
I have been a user of Google Analytics since 2005, although I rarely even look in there. The only report I found interesting was the monthly report over a long period to see if my websites were growing. Since Google recently switched us all to GA4, finding simple information is frustrating. There was just too… Continue reading Switched to Fathom Analytics
Learning SwiftUI–Again
I keep jumping around programming languages for the past few years. For work, I’ve been learning C# with .NET. Prior to that, it was Python and Vue.js, and before that, it was PHP, GraphQL and a few other things. But I want to learn SwiftUI again, so I’ve started writing tutorials on my other blog.… Continue reading Learning SwiftUI–Again
UserState in Notic Meet
Over the past month, we have been dedicating some time to getting the Visual Studio project for Notic Meet in a state where we can begin building the front end. It’s making progress, but it’s still being prepared. Most recently, we collaborated to implement user state on the client side. We added a User property… Continue reading UserState in Notic Meet
Notic Progress
I’m about nine months into a six-month app challenge—obviously, a product launch failure, and yet, progress is still being made, albeit slower than I wanted. I have learned throughout these months that six months was ambitious and that accomplishing that on a big project requires longer hours each week and sustained effort, which I still… Continue reading Notic Progress
Switching to C# for Notic Meet
I have recently been working on a C# .NET project. I like the language and framework. My background is in Objective-C, Swift, Python, and others. Now that I have a year’s experience in C# and .NET, I decided Notic Meet would be written in this language. I also now have a friend helping me with… Continue reading Switching to C# for Notic Meet
Notic Meet Update
In my last post, I wrote about setting up domains and getting everything in place that would allow me to write and create the app. So far, I have set up notic.cc, running the Twenty Twenty theme. There is no content yet, although that will be coming soon. I have set it up with a… Continue reading Notic Meet Update
Project Planning for Notic Meet
One thing that I struggle with is the feeling of being overwhelmed when there is a lot to do. To break out of that cycle for the Notic Meet project, my plan today is to make a list of all things that need to be in place so that I can focus on building the… Continue reading Project Planning for Notic Meet