Thanks to Sanebox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! I just trained 3 new senders into custom Sanebox folders today (just by moving an email from them once) and will never have to see them in my Inbox again, and will be able to easily locate them when I do want to see them. It’s so easy!
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I’m super excited about this one, as I consider CleanShot X to be one of the best Mac apps developed in the last few years. Hands down the best screenshot/recording app, but also just a highly elegant app all around.
giveaway, macos
In case you missed it, I recently released Journal, a CLI for keeping a journal with structured data that can be queried and analyzed. An update is live with a couple of nifty new features.
cli, dayone, journal-cli, journaling, markdown, weather
I’m starting up giveaways again on BrettTerpstra.com, and I’m exited to kick it off with 2 free licenses for Tap Forms for Mac. It’s an amazing database product that lets you organize and access your data on any device. It’s available on Mac, iPhone, iPad and even Apple Watch. This giveaway is specifically for the Mac version.
giveaway, macos
So, a long time ago I wrote this Jekyll plugin that does countdowns and I don’t think I ever really used it. You just give it an end date and it inserts a countdown into the post. But I needed something to count down to, so I’m running a 40% off Marked sale using the coupon until Saturday, September 16th. Here’s your countdown:
jekyll, marked
Thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I can’t count the number of hours I save using TextExpander. Oh wait, I can, because they email you a report every week to let you know…
productivity, sponsor, textexpander
I’ve made some changes to Journal (I didn’t mess with the data format this time) that add some functionality and will maybe help with integrating with some apps like Obisidian.
health, journal-cli, journaling, markdown
I’ve put some more time into both Journal and . The latest version of represents quite a few hours of tinkering. See the na project page for full details. In case you’ve missed in previously, is my command line tool for reading and modifying TaskPaper files in your projects.
na, productivity, search, tagging, taskpaper
Thanks to Timing for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve loved Timing for years, and the new vertical timeline view is an awesome upgrade to one of my most-used apps.
macos, recording, sponsor
I recently started couple’s therapy to try and improve the often-complicated relationship between myself (ADHD, bipolar) and my partner (autistic) and all of the unique problems that combination of neurodivergence presents. As part of this, I was asked to keep a journal containing certain data points. I started off journaling in Day One, but immediately realized that I was collecting some numeric data that I wouldn’t be able to do anything with unless it was stored in a database…
dayone, journal-cli, markdown
I went on a trip to Minneapolis this weekend. It went really well; I saw some great friends, ate some great food, and spent some early mornings coding at the hotel. I was just coding to kill time when I couldn’t sleep, and playing with seemed like the perfect way to do it.
na, productivity, taskpaper
Thanks to SaneBox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! I rely on my SaneBox Digest to get an overview of all the emails that (thankfully) skipped my inbox without having to wade through them all. Highly recommend!
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