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🔗 How to Add Chapters to Your Highlights in Readwise with Headings …. it is amazing how much stuff there is under the hood over at #Readwise.
Said it before saying it again ..l 🔗 this Mastodon / MicroBlog stuff is not easy is it?
One job for the new year is to sort out my ‘flows’ … what do I syndicate versus keep separate in their own silos? Specifically thinking about microblog and mastodon.
Pretty much everything out there gets fed into microblog … EXCEPT mastodon.
Should that change?
Notes Reminding Us About Notes
Two short posts that arrived almost back to back in the multivarious reading apps that seem to be multiplying on my iPad.
The first came from Derek Silvers about why we should write plain text files.
The ‘shouldness’of that instruction cant be more emphasised. All that he says I do know, but it’s good to be reminded. But, even then it still doesn’t stop me from writing a lot of stuff in a couple of the most proprietary formats out there .. Apple’s ‘Pages’ and ‘Keynote’.
YES Keynote … it isn’t just for presentations, I use it to create simple graphics and structured workbooks.
The second was Note-taking became a full-time job, so I stopped
Last year out of nowhere, I became aware and interested in Obsidian. I learnt about Zeitelkasten. I discovered that Obsidian was just the latest application that promised to be my salvation.
I haven’t stopped using it - but boy did that post resonate!
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Experimenting With Footnotes
🚧 I wanted to write this post as a permanent test of applying ‘footnotes’ on my blog.
Here in the time line it is almost certainly going to look weird if there isn’t a title - but the idea is to improve the reading experience on the site - and then of course explore what it might look like in an RSS feed.
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The footnotes aren’t coming through hyperlinked. YET!
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Consolidation
Web Sites
Bit by bit I have been consolidating the ‘Wor(l)ds of John’ and putting everything under a single, smaller roof. So when I say ‘single’ … less?
My Blot site is not just thoughts that somehow never made it to MicroBlog - but also includes the archives of 5 old Wordpress sites;
- Beyond Bridges
- Hidden In Plain Sight
- Quotespace
- And Another Thing
- Just Good Music (the old MicroBlog JGM - sadly my original JGM site only exists in the Wayback Machine.
Only JGM is linked since I figure that is the only blog that MicroBloggers might even want to click through to.
… and a whole lot more.
Gah - that just made me realise that I need to spend a bit of time in better organizing blot.
The oldest post in there dates back to September 2010.
Meanwhile my Micro Blog site has another several thousand posts entries … the oldest dating back to April 2005.
The Micro Blog collection includes an old humour site that got moved before I came up with the blot consolidation. It is a post from this blog that holds the the oldest post ‘title’.
It also includes some of my Instagram world. I resisted pulling in what is really a pile of rubbish.
My Computer Software
Meanwhile, I am also moving my main computer to a new machine. No automatic ‘restore from previous machine’ for me. I have built (am building?) it from scratch. About three weeks in ans 71 apps from the old world still have not yet made it over - and they still might not - ever.
My iPad
… deinstalling software to bring more focus to how I use the iPad and when.
More to come as I think about it.
🚧 CSS Experiments
🚧 Experimental Post as I play around with the CSS ... a LOT!
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Our Web Properties
More of a status check than information, but it kind of makes sense to record here - and periodically update.
People First has 9 domains that get used for different initiatives.
'Broadcast' Sites
Newsletter @ PeopleFirst.news
Podcasts @ PeopleFirst.fm
Blog @ PeopleFirst.vision
Network @ PeopleFirst.network
Business @ PeopleFirst.business
Not Yet Live - and so for now, all should resolve to PeopleFirst.business
- PeopleFirst.pub - it will be the book site.
- PeopleFirst.systems - the structures, framworks, models that allow you to use People First thinking.
- PeopleFirst.video - when we move into video - this is where it will be.
- PeopleFirst.community - it will map the fabric across the internet.
🚧 Navigation
Some Useful Tips To Navigate The Articles
The RSS feed is here.
Article Navigation
Like any good WordPress blog, searching by category is of course possible. We have also work hard to only have a single category per article.
We then refine the indexing of the article with free form tags.
We have also introduced a second layer of article - which is 'post type' ... using this filter you can find posts, asides, videos etc
Combine the two look for
- category = work
- post kind = video
Hit 'filter' and back comes the list of all posts that contain 'videos' categorized as 'work'.
And then, of course, you have search!
Asking for a friend
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Share a link from (say) Fiery Feeds you get title and URL sans markdown.
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Open the same post in Safari, do the same thing - all the markdown appears.
Can I make 1 behave like 2?
LATER: The answer lies in Shortcuts