Thanks to SaneBox for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com again this week! I wanted to take the opportunity to offer a personal endorsement, and talk a little bit about how and why I’ve used SaneBox over the last decade.
email, sponsor
This might be the last big na update for a little while, but it’s got some great stuff in it. I’m really aiming to make this a great companion to TaskPaper, and I think it’s coming along nicely.
history, na, search, tagging
I’ve made some changes to na that make it a very handy tool for general querying of a TaskPaper file. Now you can quickly find actions based on project, tag, or text content right from the command line.
na, productivity, search, tagging, taskpaper
Whenever I publish a gem like doing, howzit, or na, I always suggest that if you have any trouble installing with , you should use . This is because the preferred way is to do it without (for multiple reasons), but those who don’t do anything else with Ruby and just want to use tools distributed as gems are almost definitely using the system Ruby, which won’t allow updating its gem folder without . I was recently turned onto another option, though, which is perfect for people who…
homebrew, ruby, scripting
I have a tip for M1 Mac users (who spend time in the terminal). You know how up until you got your new Mac, you could always count on your command line utilities being in ? But now Homebrew installs to instead? And all of those scripts that hardcoded have to be updated, and the PKG installer for tools like Gather leave it outside of your PATH? Never fear, symlinks are here.
homebrew, terminal
I have a friend (hi Jeff) who has really dug into using some of my command line tools like Howzit and na. Working with him on setting them up in his own environment has inspired some refactoring of both tools. I mentioned some major updates to Howzit last month, but had only made minor fixes to na up until this week.
cli, na, productivity, prompt, ruby, scripting, search, tagging, taskpaper, terminal, tools
Thanks to Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’m a huge fan of literally everything this developer has produced, and consider apps like Loopback, Audio Hijack, and SoundSource to be daily drivers for me.
macos, sponsor
Gather is constantly improving at this point, and a lot of its rough edges have already been polished. I’m loving all the feedback I’m getting, both for fixing bugs and for adding new features. It’s hard to test something like Gather on every possible permutation of a web layout, so I appreciate hearing about edge cases (even if I do have to weigh how much effort they’re worth).
bookmarklet, gather, shortcuts
I got a request to add a option to Gather. Makes sense; when you’re using it to save Markdown to notes, you’d want the title of the page to be the title of the note. You could parse that out of the Markdown version in several ways, but in some cases it might be easier to just call and get an undecorated string back. So that’s been added in v2.0.29.
gather, markdown, nvultra
So the first project I worked on with the libraries that went into Gather was the WebMarkdown extension for PopClip. It worked great… for me. I suffered from the all-too-common hacker mistake summed up as “well, it works on my machine.”
extension, gather, popclip
As promised, I’ve updated Read2Text as a standalone binary using the Swift versions of Readability and HTML2Text. In the process I made it a whole new tool called Gather. You may recall that name from a little utility I made a while back. This does the exact same thing, just without the GUI, and I liked that name enough to revive it.
gather, html, macos, markdown, shortcuts, swift, tools
