I love full moon nights where I can look outside and still see everything clearly. It’s an underrated benefit of having a life on Earth.

Rebuilding Drafts

I’ve been a long-time user of Drafts, but my subscription is due to expire next month and I have been thinking that I’d let it go. I’ve been using Tot more these days, and Drafts had become an intimidating mess that I didn’t enjoy using. However, after listening to a Mac Power Users podcast featuring the Drafts app and an interview with its developer, and then reading a blog post by Jason Burk about his Drafts setup (plus a personal conversation with him), I realised that it wasn’t necessarily Drafts that was the problem - it was what I had done to it.

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After talking with @Burk I’ve been re-inspired with Drafts. I’ve streamlined my Actions to make the app more approachable. Actual use beats good intentions.

Homebrew

This article was originally written for the December 2021 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus Are you a Terminal wizard? A command line guru? A shell superstar? No, neither am I. From time to time I attempt to teach myself. It never sticks. As a result I know just enough about the macOS (and Linux, I suppose) terminal (bash/zsh) as the faded memory of a series of beginner courses permit.

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