We’re having a low-key holiday this year. I mean really low-key. Aditi’s napping on the couch, the dogs are all sleeping, the cats and the bird are lazily preening themselves and I just fixed Markdown QuickTags.
Wordpress, markdown, mdqt, plugin, quicktags
VoodooPad is a powerful note-collecting, wikifying, productivity machine. With the right scripts, you can make just about anything happen, at least within the realm of text, images and web pages. VoodooPad has a built in web server, and can export your notebook as a full website, with links intact. I like the web export the best, because it gives me a crazy amount of control over the output. To that end, I built a website using nothing but VoodooPad, hopped up on some custom scripts. I can…
voodoopad, webdesign, wiki
As I’ve mentioned before, I keep todo.taskpaper files in my web and code project folders. These allow me to keep track of bugs, ideas, notes, etc., and the archive it creates helps me remember what I did, when I did it and how it worked. I like having them separated per project; it’s the way my one-track mind works. I like the plain-text format because I can use any variety of methods (including TaskPaper itself) to manipulate and quickly update the files. This gave me the idea to…
productivity, scripting, taskpaper, terminal
Marked 1.3.2 is up and includes all of the features I mentioned a couple of days ago. If you already have Marked, open up the App Store and check for updates. If you’ve been waiting to pick up a copy, now’s a good time!
marked
I finally got around to writing a script to auto-generate the documentation for my DefaultKeyBinding.dict file. The script now reads my comments in the file and creates tables of keystrokes and descriptions ready for GitHub. From now on, my fickle changes will be reflected in the readme.md file in the repo and the keystrokes will stay current. You can see the current output here.
documentation, keybindings, scripting
Marked v1.3.2 has been uploaded and is waiting for review. This release, despite being an incremental version number, has some exciting new features. Here’s a preview of the changelog:
markdown, marked, multimarkdown, news
I mentioned it on Twitter a while ago, but an email from a reader just prompted me to mention it again. As a perfect follow-up to my tagging article yesterday, some of the best apps for OpenMeta tagging are on sale through the Productive Macs Bundle!
apps, deals
Since publishing my first article on tagging and appearing on MacPowerUsers, I’ve been asked many times for more specifics on my tagging system. I’ll start by telling you that I don’t have all of the answers; what I’m sharing here is what I’ve learned after a few years of constant tagging.
openmeta, spotlight, tagging, work
