Recap: Jun 18th, 2014

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

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Training Dragons and Dispelling Myths

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

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Fast, Fuzzy Directory Navigation for Tag Filer

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

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Recap: Jun 11th, 2014

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

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