This week’s guest on Systematic was Mike Rohde of SketchNotes fame. I had a chance to see him at work during An Event Apart Minneapolis, so it was fun to get a chance to talk about the origins and techniques behind the methods. If you’re not sure what sketchnoting is, check out Sketchnote Army and Mike’s book on the subject. Hint: use coupon code “SKETCHNOTE” for a bargain.
podcast, systematic
As you may know, I store a lot of information in plain text files. Among the things I enjoy about this has always been that I can grab the contents of any file straight to the clipboard — without opening it — when I’m on the command line. I just use and boom, done. I wrote a function a long time ago to make this a little safer and more convenient. It avoids clipping non-text files accidentally and provides a little feedback.
macos, service, terminal
The next beta of nvALT 2.2 is ready for automatic update (for users already on the beta), or for download below. We received some great contributions from the community and there’s a lot of new goodness (and bugfixes) in this release. Special thanks to:
nvalt
I’ve updated the Markdown Service Tools again, now at version 1.5.2. A couple of Services had stopped working completely, and a few needed improvements to be a little smarter with various formatting anomalies, and I made a couple of minor additions.
markdown, markdownservices, service
I just had to test this. It’s a Jekyll plugin that takes the ID of a Flickr photo set and turns it into a gallery, keeping all photos hosted on Flickr. Not that I make a lot of galleries on my blog, just one of those “I think I can do that” things.
gallery, personal, photography
Update: So many people told me that it didn’t work for them that I had to go digging for why I was different. I had forgotten where the whole discovery started: I mapped hyper-Tab to Command-Tab in BetterTouchTool. That’s why it functions this way. Get BetterTouchTool and add a keyboard mapping, then this will all make sense.
keyboard, productivity, quicktip
As I start blogging more with Jekyll, I find that manually placing the images in my source folder and typing out the resulting urls is a bit cumbersome. I know a lot of people have come up with solutions for this, but it was simpler to roll my own in the end. I’ve created a few ways of doing this on OS X. All of these methods will copy the image to an appropriate, date-based subfolder in your static blog’s source, optimize it if the tools are available and immediately place Markdown…
jekyll, ruby, service
