There are certain accusations to which there is no good response.
- “When did you stop beating your wife?”
- “Okay, no need to get angry.”
- “…Cray-ZEEE.”
…but there are some responses which are worse than others.
Does Zoom still have security issues and what alternatives are worth investigating?
“Friends don’t let friends measure Page Views. Ever.”
I seem to have shifted my note taking habits while sat at my desk. I’ve gone from taking mostly analog notes to typed notes. It’s partially due to experimenting with Obsidian and Notion and their day note/templates, but this shift is an interesting side effect. Maybe I should try going back to analog notes again 🤔
5 MicroBlog plugin ideas
I’m not a developer and I suspect that some of these might not be possible/easy to do, still here are some ideas for the better developers who use MB.
- Hide post under 280 character from the main page
- Sharing of some sort (I was thinking like the typical WordPress share sheet but options for read later or quotebacks, medium style highlighting etc would be cool.)
- Third party commenting systems (I guess some people might like that. I wouldn’t really but I’m struggling to think of ideas)
- Gated content (why not add a Ghost feature for kicks)
- “Clapping” I kind of like this idea from Medium, it’s a fun interaction.
Hell Yes I'll buy Derek Sivers New Book
Derek Sivers new book — Hell Yeah or No — is now live on his site.
You can only buy it through him and it’s $15 for the ebook and audiobook, or $19 for the paperbook as well as the digital formats.
Last year I read and enjoyed [Anything you want] by Derek so buying this book was an easy, hell yes.
I love that he has the ability to publish this way, and the options here. DRM free digital versions, and you get them included with the paperback. I’ve wondered why Amazon doesn’t offer some sort of upsell of kindle and/or audiobook versions of a book when you buy a paper or hardback.
“Let’s run a survey,” he said. “We could see some interesting results,” he said. “It won’t take that long to go through the results,” he foolishly said.
When you notice a typo as soon as you’ve hit send 🤦♂️
🔗 40 Journalism Tips by Poynter
Don’t let the powerful answer in the passive voice “Mistakes we made”
Some really good writing advice here, but I love this point.
The next edition of Learn Create Share is basically ready to go. I just need to get a post up on Sketchnote Classroom so I can share both. Even better, I already have a really great feature idea for next week’s edition ⚡
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🔗The company isn’t a family - Signal v. Noise
The best companies aren’t families. They’re supporters of families. Allies of families. There to provide healthy, fulfilling work environments so when workers shut their laptops at a reasonable hour, they’re the best husbands, wives, parents, siblings, and children they can be.
Via @baldur
So, I decided to try writing a post for microblog using scribble. It’s okay, but editing is a real pain in the neck! (Update: turns out there are some actions to edit).
When you realise that although there is an external problem, the greater problem has been your response.
That’s me this week.
🔗 UK may already have enough herd immunity to prevent a second wave study says I keep hearing terrible news about COVID (like immunity may only last 2 months) but perhaps this is some good news… or perhaps it’s not considering shorter immunity and other factors. So let’s not go around licking each others faces yet, but I certainly hope this study is accurate.
🔗The Covid Pandemic Has Changed Our Sleep. Here's How - Jeff Huang
The Covid Pandemic Has Changed Our Sleep - Jeff Huang
The coronavirus pandemic has significantly affected both our work and our leisure in unprecedented ways. But a third pillar of our everyday lives has been less studied: how has the pandemic affected our sleep?
Some fasinating stats in here (which also has the awkward…these companies know so much about me) aspect.
The never ending quest for the best note system
There are three note applications and systems on my mind at the moment.
1. Evernote
Old faithful. Despite some dark times, Evernote is still solid and reliable as it always has been. I’ve been on the beta recently and there are some good changes coming soon. Evernote still does a few things extremely well.
- Capture (from webpages and other services)
- Sync (I rarely have conflicts and notes show up almost instantly)
- It’s everywhere
- it’s easy to start with But, it doesn’t have some of the latest ideas like the two other apps I’ve been playing with.
2. Notion
Notion sucks as a note-taking/data storage app. The apps are slow web views and it never feels like you are working with text. Exporting notes isn’t easy and there is a steep learning curve… BUT
- The organising tools are amazing
- Collaboration is great
- The whole idea of Databases is extremely cool
- You can have notes and project management tools in one place I hate capturing data in notion, but I’ve been using it to organise writing my newsletter and it works so well for this. There is a web capture tool but it feels a bit awkward which sums up a lot of Notion. It’s cool but awkward.
3. Obsidian
Roam research, but local and using markdown files. I was just writing a note in Notion and wanted to make some relational notes as you can in obsidian. Unfortunately, Notion doesn’t work that way. I started using obsidian on my Work PC, with an iCloud folder so in theory, I can add markdown notes anywhere (using drafts on my iPhone) and I’ll get all the benefits of obsidian. but…
- obsidian doesn’t have a tool to save webpages
- obsidian doesn’t have a mobile app (so it’s all just plain text on iOS)
- obedian doesn’t connect to third-party services for easy imports I could probably save webpages as PDFs and then link to those files, but that isn’t quite the same.
So… what do you want to do?
I guess I could …
- Use multiple apps, each for its own strength… But using one app would be simpler.
- Settle for just Notion, not have relational notes (maybe they’ll come later?) and deal with the other issues.
- Settle with Evernote and use a task manager (todoist?) for project management
- Use Obsidian and be a cool tech guy who does everything in plain text…and maybe use PDF version of saved web pages…
Or maybe there’s another app like DEVONThink…but that’s an Apple exclusive…
My wife and I finished watching Snowpiercer season 1 yesterday. We enjoyed it even though the blood was a bit OTT for us.
🔗 The forgotten political roots of Bridge over Troubled Water - BBC Culture
The forgotten political roots of Bridge over Troubled Water - BBC Culture
Simon talked about using the primetime opportunity as a Trojan horse for “a home movie about where he thought the nation was”. Directed by actor Charles Grodin, Songs of America used the duo’s hits to soundtrack footage of riots, marches and the war in Vietnam, much to the horror of sponsors AT&T, who demanded their $600,000 investment back.
More after today’s post on Bridge over Troubled Waters.