Me five years ago: I want all my chats in one place! Stupid whatsapp/messenger/etc Me now: I want separations between “chats” so I can focus on the most important ones! Thank God for Trello comments!
🔗 All widget iPad home screen coming?
🔗Apple iOS15: What’s New? Notification, IPad Home Screen Upgrades - Bloomberg
Following a similar feature for the iPhone introduced last year, Apple plans to let users place widgets – miniature apps that can display the weather, upcoming appointments, stock tickers and other data – anywhere on the Home Screen. Users will also be able to replace the entire app grid with only widgets.
This would make me very happy. I can’t believe they didn’t roll out the all widget home screen at the same time as the iPhone so maybe there will be some more significant changes?
Got my Earth Day award on my Apple Watch. It’s a stupid electronic badge and yet I’m so happy to have got it. Still annoyed I lost all the badges I had got on my iPhone SE.
Today’s Obsidian discovery/tip (thanks to Mac Power Users)
Cmd+P brings up the command panel with all the keyboard shortcuts. You can type/scroll and find a relevant command AND see its keyboard shortcut. A great way to learn keyboard shortcuts.
For teacher Chris (3 years ago) the new iPad would look like a great move over the M1 Macbooks…but communications manager Chris wouldn’t swap his Macbook Air for the new iPad.
A quick question for obsidian users: do you have a system for when you use tags and when you use back links (and if yes, what is it)?
I still wonder how someone managed to get the Magic Mouse 2 charging past review.
Finished reading 📖 Dominion by Tom Holland
Just finished dominion by Tom Holland And here are some thoughts.
Summary
Western culture including secularism and humanism have inherently Christian values that drive them.
The cross is significant
The cross, and the symbolism of the Crucified God, the powerful humbling themselves for the powerless, is the key aspect of Christianity.
Christian civil wars
There is an ongoing tension between the letter and spirit of the laws.
Slavery
The abolition of slavery seems like the most unexpected event. It almost feels as though it was purely the work Benjamin lay. Certainly most cultures didn’t see it as an issue but only appealing to Christian ideas of a common ancestory and the equality of all (no male/female, Jew/Greek) saw it as wrong.
"How do you not see it?"
Whenever I have the thought that I can’t believe some co-workers don’t act or think the way I do, I’m wary.
Maybe they know something I don’t.
Perhaps there’s a different reason for their actions.
Probably I don’t do things the way I think as often as I think.
Definitely there are other things I do which are irrational or stupid.
And yet, I write this and realise that in truth. I probably don’t have those reflections most of the time and just think the other person’s an idiot.
But I aspire to be more humble, and give the grace to others I wish was given to me.
iOS 14.5 public beta 7 seemed very buggy for me. I hope beta 8 has fixed that. Also, beta 8!
Obsidian opinion:
- looking at the open graph view is basically useless.
- looking at the local graph view with 2 or 3 depth is fantastic.
Microphone question: Any experience/thoughts on ….
- Rode NT-USB micro.
- Samson Q2U (seams to basically be the Audio-technica atr-2100)
Looks like the audio technica atr-2100 (and atr-2100x) are out of stock everywhere in Poland :(
I took a break from Mac Power Users after Katie left but I’ve come back to it recently (I blame you M1 Macbook Air). I really appreciate how thematic the shows are and not driven by the latest rumours/outrages.
It finally happened.
There are no meetings on my work calendar 🕺
(For today)
Learn Create Share 33: The lesson of the water bottle Yes, I published a newsletter :)
Time to rewrite a homepage …
Protip: if you stop writing the word “analytics”, half-way, make sure you go back and finish writing it. Otherwise your colleagues might get a surprise.
Do people ask you which vaccine you got? Here in Poland, whenever I mention someone has had the vaccine, I get a follow up question of “which one?" Is this true in other places?
Creating a personal status board in Trello - Learn Create Share