![]() Try to use plain text for just taking short notes and messages to yourself. The max attachment size of most service providers is around 20 MB. The E-mail format itself is well understood and has many features. Usually, you will not even read it again after you have saved it. You can use labels or folders to organize, but mostly just send it to an email address of your choice and archive it. Just write a meaningful subject that you can search for later. From How I use append-only log to store information:Ĭhoose any email client you like and basically dump all your PDFs, notes, digitized papers, files into it as it arrives from various sources. Other people use email as an append-only note-taking tool and storage medium. It’s there as breadcrumbs to go back in time and see how an idea was developed. Sometimes the best one is where you can’t change the history of an idea. There are multiple ways to develop ideas. I don’t want to have another app.Īs an interim solution, I created a Keyboard Maestro macro which copies and pastes the current entry into Drafts (and also converts it to Markdown), where I can post it manually. I could use a daily Markdown file and keep that open in The Archive app, but I want to use Bike for this, because it is the best thinking and outliner tool.Īlso I’m already writing my journal in Bike. I have to create a new Bike document for each entry before converting it to Markdown because I want to have separate notes for each entry, not just one big daily note. I just export notes with the ZETTEL marker only. ![]() In theory, I would use my publish script to manage the Zettelkasten daily notes in the same pipeline as my WordPress posts.ĭaily notes would be pre-filtered though. ~jonsterling/bike-convertors – Scripts to convert Bike outlines to idiomatic HTML and Markdown. I found this project which does exactly this. It would be nice if I could convert these notes to Markdown files, then publish them to my Zettelkasten site directly. My Zettelkasten is a Jekyll based site, so I have to work with Markdown content. I don’t use month based files anymore in Bike, I create a new outline for each day. You know the paraphrased old saying, “we announce no software before it’s time.I’m tinkering with the idea of using my Bike journal to publish to my Zettelkasten directly. If you know me and Palo Alto Software, you might wonder how far we are from yet another attempt at a Mac version of Business Plan Pro. And Firefox seems like a familiar friend too. On the good side, I’ve gotten used to iTunes because of my iPods and iPhone, so that will help. ![]() I mean missing the things I’m used to, like Windows Live Writer, SnagIt screen capture, Roboform. Since it’s been 12 years, I realize I’ll have a long move-in time for the new iMac. And now I, president and founder, have a new iMac as my main system at home. One of our best programmers works on a Mac using Windows via Parallels. We embarked on projects to port Business Plan Pro to Mac three times in the 12 years since the first version, but the numbers were just impossible to make - 10X development costs for 1/100 the sales just don’t work, no matter how much I like the Mac. ![]() In Palo Alto Software, meanwhile, as the Windows market took over we tried to continue with Macs, but it became so much more drag than sales justified that we finally, in 2003, dropped the Mac products. The Macs stayed around for a while, but our home was without Macs until about a year ago when I installed an old Mac mini. I moved to Windows as we developed Business Plan Pro for Windows, in 1994.Īs our business moved heavily over to the Windows side, so did I, with my main computers. I stayed with Macs as the main system, upgrading every so often, until 1994. I wrote my second book, which was published by McGraw-Hill Microtext, on a Mac and laid it out using very early desktop publishing techniques and an Apple Laserwriter. I had one of those original Macintosh units within a month of its introduction, and it became my main system when they finally had hard drives some time in 1985. This is after about 12 years on Windows, which, in turn, came after about 10 years with a Mac as my main computer. I’m writing this using Mars Edit on a new iMac, which has just replaced my Windows Media computer as my main system on my home desktop.
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