While there was some excitement and hearty agreement with the list of my ideal Markdown text editor features, there was also some criticism. There were some valid points in all of the critiques, and I’d like to address them. I’ll do so by rambling a bit.
editor, markdown
The Best Markdown Editor Is Any Editor Dr. Drang’s response to my Markdown editor wishlist post. I’ll save commentary until I have time to expound, but here’s the other side. Open 1Password Logins from LaunchBar or QuickSilver Handy script to extract your 1Password logins to a bookmarks file that Launchbar can index. One-click logins for Launchbar! (That’ll show those Alfred users…) DuckDuckHack Sweet. The MacSparky Paperless Field Guide iPad only…
bookmarks
This is another of my attempts at keeping track of my day in an orderly fashion. It’s a pretty simple idea. Given that most of of what I do is stored in git repositories, my commit logs are my best bet for seeing what I’ve accomplished each day. I just needed to pull them together and bundle them up without having to think about it. If a lot of your work happens in git repositories and you make frequent commits, this might be of use to you.
dayone, git, logging, ruby
There are a few great Markdown text editors available, and more being worked on right now. I want to put a list of features out there that I think any true Markdown editor should include. Some of these are implemented in one editor or another, but nothing has brought it all together (aside from TextMate with all of my customizations, and even that lacks some of the polish mentioned below).
editor, markdown
I made a small update to the natural language date Service that I put together a while back. I wanted it to handle input formats like “+3” to get a date for 3 days from right now, and to handle adding times to the output if there’s a time-like string in the input.
automator, date, naturallanguage, scripting, service
You know those categories the App Stores use to sort applications by their intended use? You can use those in Spotlight on iOS. Did you know you can do that on your Mac, too? I didn’t, and I didn’t find many references to this on the web, so I’ll share the discovery:
macos, productivity, spotlight
I haven’t had much time to write here this week thanks to some day job stress, major additions to Marked, writing for other venues, updating iTextEditors and various other fun. I had a brainstorm that resulted in new KeyBindings this morning, though, and thought it would be a good chance to get a post up before anyone thinks I’ve been kidnapped.
keybindings, macos
I just realized today, quite belatedly, that you can control GeekTool on your Mac with AppleScript. I just wanted to play around with it a bit, so I threw together a countdown timer. This could be done much more elegantly, I’m sure; I just wanted to see what I could pull off quickly.
applescript, geeklet, geektool, productivity
Marked 1.4 is available on the Mac App Store. I’m announcing this a little prematurely; the press release doesn’t go out until tomorrow morning, but I’m just too excited to hold off.
marked
Just in case you missed it, a 2x4 interview I did for lifehack.org went live today. Thanks to Michael Schechter for the opportunity to talk about life, creativity and productivity.
interview, personal, productivity
I’ve been trying for years to get a decent Bluetooth “proximity” setup going so that my iPhone can trigger lighting setups as I enter and exit a room. I think I’ve finally nailed it, though I’m sure there’s plenty more testing to do.
bluetooth, lion, macos, proximity
My weekend project turns out to be the most popular thing I’ve ever done, at least based on web traffic (besides that one thing that I don’t like to talk about). It’s had more pageviews in two days than my whole blog gets in a typical month, and I haven’t even officially announced the final page outside of Twitter. Insane. Seriously.
ios, itexteditors, texteditor
