I store all of my writing as separate Markdown files. A basic tagging system1 adds more “searchability,” and I can quickly locate any file with Spotlight2. Given the amount of time I spend in Terminal (well, iTerm 2 these days), I use quite a bit to do the Spotlight searching. This function just makes it a little more convenient to search for and quickly edit an existing document.
markdown, mdfind, scripting, spotlight, terminal
Thanks to everyone I met at WWDC this year and to the friends I got to see for a great time. San Francisco was as beautiful as ever and the Mac and iOS development communities are, as usual, full of new and brilliant ideas. It’s always heartening to see. TUAW and MacTech will be posting the result of our blogging work at WWDC over the next few weeks.
personal, wwdc
Quick tips are random posts regarding something I discovered on my way to something bigger. They usually get longer than “quick” would imply, for which I refuse to apologize.
macappstore, macos, quicktip, solutions
Martin Kopischke has taken my little Markdown to Evernote Service and made it whole. I dropped the project pretty quickly as I stopped using Evernote as my primary storage for text notes, and I left it in pretty poor shape. Martin has fixed that.
bookmarks, evernote, markdown, multimarkdown
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen me express my adoration for autojump, a command-line utility for navigating frequently-used folders. The only problem is that I deal with a lot of repetitive folder hierarchies; for example, the multiple site structures in my web development folder. almost certainly isn’t going to take me to the one I was thinking of.
navigation, quicklink, terminal, utility
Most of my projects start out as mind maps (which I may have mentioned before). Whether it’s a packing list, a blog post or a TextMate bundle, I find it easiest to organize my (often scattered) thoughts using what Tony Buzan calls radiant thinking. Lists and outlines are rarely as effective as the non-linear format of a mind map. For me, if it involves brainstorming, it involves mind maps.
apps, blogging, ipad, macos, mindmapping, review, work, writing
Quick tips are random posts regarding something I discovered on my way to something bigger. They usually get longer than “quick” would imply, for which I refuse to apologize.
Code, quicktip, scripting, terminal
Development on the next version of nvALT is going more slowly than I’d like, but some very cool changes are happening. In addition to implementing the latest changes and fixes from the main branch of Notational Velocity, I’ve also worked in a few new features and a small bucket of fixes.
news, nvalt
It might sound weird coming from a non-seller of apps, but I like seeing higher prices in the App Store. If the market will support higher prices, that’s a really good sign that the App Store is becoming a quality marketplace, not just a snack machine.
appstore, marketing, opinion
