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
