There was a tip on Hawk Wings long ago which showed how to speed up Apple’s Mail.app by vacuuming the SQLite3 index. I hadn’t tried it since Snow Leopard, but I was having some serious issues with the time it took to open a Mail folder on my Air, so I thought I’d give it a shot.
macos, mail, optimization
Systematic Episode 9 was just posted. Gabe Weatherhead (@macdrifter) just went up. I talked with Gabe about static blogging, using our own blogs as a personal reference library and lots of Markdown talk. The top app picks for the week were fun, and if you’re any sort of nerd you’ll probably find something you like in there!
podcast, systematic
A great post from Michael Schechter titled “Plain Text Primer: nvALT 101” is up and worthy of a pointer from here. It’s the missing manual that we’ve never gotten around to writing for nvALT. If you’re new to nvALT or want to know how to make the most of it, this is a great place to start.
bookmarks, nvalt
Here are the winners of the nvNotes drawing ! Names are linked to comments so you can confirm that you are (or are not) a winner. Codes have already been mailed to the addresses left with each chosen comment, so if yours is listed and you haven’t heard from me, please contact me .
apps, giveaway, ios
I got a chance to chat with Brett Kelly for this episode. We talked about Evernote, and Omnifocus, and some discussion about spousal approval of our musical tastes. We kept it to an hour, so good on us.
podcast, systematic
The Back to Mail promotion running right now has some great plugins for Mail.app users. I always come back to Apple Mail after trying the other (admittedly great) apps on the market. The two reasons for that are overall system integration (AppleScript, mostly) and the plugins that are available. Pretty much every plugin I’ve used and loved is on sale for 50% off, thanks to this promo.
deals, mail
You can now subscribe to a monthly PDF magazine featuring the amazing writers in the Read & Trust network. If you’re a reader and you enjoy excellent writing from top-notch thinkers and authors, you want this.
readandtrust, writing
nvNotes is a relatively new app for iPhone that emulates the note-taking style of Notational Velocity (and nvALT). With the omnibox search you can quickly find all related notes or start a new one immediately, and it makes taking notes a breeze and finding them simple.
apps, giveaway, ios
I just added FioWriter to iTextEditors today. It’s a pretty great idea for an iPad text editor: it adds Command and Option keys to the keyboard, so anyone who’s used to standard OS X text editing operations can use it in a very familiar way.
ios, ipad, texteditor
I didn’t sleep much this week, and I thought that I was going to do a horrible job of talking with Michael Schechter for today’s episode of Systematic. Somehow, he made it work, and we had a great conversation about ADHD, Tesla, Apple & Twitter and more ADHD.
podcast, systematic
If you’re on the list and you haven’t seen the email from me, let me know. Have fun with Textastic! If you didn’t win, you should grab it while it’s still on sale (50% 0ff).
giveaway, ios
If you’re a Chrome user, you’ve probably found that you can do a lot more than just browse the web within the application. Now you can edit Markdown, too. Enter TextDown, by Joao Colombo.
chrome, markdown, plugin
