I mentioned yesterday that Curio 9 is out, and I’m really excited about the plethora of new features and enhancements. I talked with developer George Browning and he was happy to provide two copies of Curio 9 to give away on brettterpstra.com.
apps, giveaway, macos, productivity
I met Brian Alvey at WWDC this year and had a great chat with him over drinks. Given that he built the CMS platform that I spent a few years working on over at AOL, it was surprising we’d never crossed paths before.
podcast, systematic
My new podcast with Christina Warren is live! It’s a bit wandering at this point, but we agreed after recording this episode that we would make some attempt to “theme” future episodes a little more. I think it’s a great start and I’m sure it’s going to be a lot of fun to keep it going.
overtired, podcast
One of my favorite brainstorming applications, Curio, has just released version 9. It includes an complete revamp of the interface for Mavericks and Yosemite, along with dozens of new features and improvements.
brainstorming, macos, productivity, review
Recently a few of my bookmarklets broke due to conflicts in the way GitHub serves raw gists and Chrome security settings. I’ve moved all of the gists that the bookmarklets previously loaded from GitHub to my own server and updated the main bookmarklet code.
bookmarklet, bullseye, grablinks, markdown, marker, scripting
This is a tale of woe — spawned from a navigational “disability” — and redemption via technology. It has very little point, but I feel like documenting it. Take it as you will.
ios, personal
Thanks to Assistant.io for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. I’ve fallen in love with this service for scheduling any kind of meeting (or my podcast) and encourage anyone who schedules anything with other people to check it out!
Sponsor: PDFpen for iPad (Jun 12th) With the addition of Transporter support, PDFpen for iPad is better than ever. Thanks to Smile and PDFpen for sponsoring brettterpstra.com this week! Fast, fuzzy directory navigation for Tag Filer (Jun 12th) For users of my Tag Filing system, here’s a fast way to jump around your tagged folders from the command line. Web Excursions for June 13th and June 17th Lots going on out there on the web these days… Systematic 101 with Jordan…
recap
My wife Aditi is a professional dog trainer, and I absorb a lot of information just being around her. She studies animal behavior and researches constantly to provide training that is based on science, not television shows. This post was inspired by her, as well as a movie I’ll talk about in a minute. It’s a strong departure from my usual fare. I don’t apologize for that, as I think more people need to know about these things.
dogs, personal, training
I was joined this week by Jordan Cooper. He’s a comedian, web marketer and general internet guy. I had mentioned in episode 100 with Merlin Mann that I’d played a show at a venue called The Temple in Brooklyn, and it turned out that Jordan was the one who booked that show. Small world.
podcast, systematic
This script provides an easy way to jump around the filesystem if (and only if) you’re using my Tag Filer system. In that system, you tag main “context” folders with “=Tagname,” and target subfolders (project folders) with “@projecttag.” The Tag Filing system allows me to tag individual files and folders with a “#Tagname” (target context) and “:project:chain” tags to have Hazel automatically move them to their destination and maintain both a shallow folder system and a tag-based search…
scripting, tagfiler, tagging, terminal, work
Sponsor: Doxie Portable Scanners (Jun 5th) A big thanks to Doxie and their line of amazing portable scanners for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. Systematic 99 with Dave Hamilton and Moisés Chiullan (Jun 5th) Episode 99 of Systematic was broadcast from WWDC at New Relic studios with an unprecedented number of special guests (I’ve never had more than one…). Even better random filenames (Jun 9th) It started here with a script that used the Aspell dictionary to create…
recap, systematic
