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Search versus Search
For the longest time I have had the wonderful plugin 🔗 ’Search Space’ by @sod running on my site. It is truly fantastic - use it all the time to find post I know I have written in the past - that I want to link to - like here .. imagine how long that would have taken to build without a powerful search.
I also use Hitchens by @pimoore for my site, and Pete rather conveniently included ‘Search’ as part of his template. Not sure what he is doing behind the scenes to make that work - but like all of Hitchens - it just worked out of the box.
But … BUT … ever since installing @sod ’s plugin, having two searches has annoyed me, but I lived with it. Although I knew how to hide the built in search in CSS, I did NOT know how to identify the element that needed hiding, Until NOW.
Thanks to Jason I can now find and identify the elements I need to drop into the CSS. (Again, I new all about ‘Inspect’, but for whatever reason I had a mental block when it came to finding the specifics.)
No longer - and as a result, I now have only 1 🖇️ Search on my site.
No idea if @sod is reading this - maybe I will ping him separately - and find out if he is working on an update - because I do have a few ideas.
🔗 CNN chief Chris Licht to leave cable news network days after Atlantic profile
Good Riddance.
and again on
and finally on
🎵 Mirror To The Sky By Yes … as I type on my second time through it … so that’s good … right?
… update. 🖇️ Review
🎛️🎙️ English Progressive Redux
🔗 Andrew Hickey’s ‘500 Songs’ includes a good and interesting summary of why the UK and US musicians who ‘arrived’ in the 60s sounded so different, emerging, he argues, from significant social differences and country histories.
What do you think?
🎵🖇️ More thoughts on what I call English Progressive
The Full Podcast: 🎙️ 500 Songs - ‘See Emily Play’ by The Pink Floyd
Setting Categories Automatically On MicroBlog
It’s interesting how small things mess you up. I am putting some time into trying to make it easier to find stuff on my blog and recently discovered filters where you can “automatically set categories when text in new posts matches a filter”.
For new posts it seems to work flawlessly. The cool thing is that you can ‘Run Filter’ - which essentially means that it will go off and apply that rule to your archive. It works.
Of course if you have a lot of posts (sorry), it might take some time - but it does seem to get there. So. after a while, when I view the categories I can see the post count increasing. And - when I look at the posts through the lens of Mars Edit I can see all the new posts where the category has been applied.
All good. UNTIL. I noticed that though every thing SEEMED to be working - actually, over on the web site, the categories were not being allocated. Turns out patience is a virtue - because after several days (I kid you not) elapsed, it seemed that everything was also working on the site. All good.
( @manton - is this time delay expected behavior?)
All good until I set up the filter to
find text = ‘youtube.com/watch' and add that post to the category ‘myyoutubes’.
The wait aside, it ran like a dream. Except it didn’t. I realized that posts that definitely contained links back to YouTube were not being picked up. I ran the filter again - and waited. TWICE. Nothing changed.
This morning I discovered why.
Turns out that there is a second URL format that YouTube uses … youtu.be
I am guessing that the youtube syntax varies depending on whether you are on a computer versus iOS or something similar. Anyway, I then set up a second filter that adds the post to the same category - and … it is now working (wait aside)
BTW, the really cool thing is that I also use the plugin ‘Lite YouTube for Micro.blog by @rknightuk - so those links automatically render as embedded videos on my site. 🖇️ Say, like this one - which at time of typing still hasn’t been correctly allocated its category - but I am keeping an eye on it.
5th Session of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic starts in 25 minutes … live conversation with a few of us across 3 continents who like to read books … let me know if you’d like to join us .. I’ll send you the zoom link.
I promise that I didn’t plan it this way but the last three meetings of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic differ in length by only 14 seconds.
📚Great Meeting Of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic today - wonderful book recommendations that I am documenting. Notes to follow.
📚 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic Invite was just sent out for May 15th/16th - let me know if you didn’t receive it.
📚 Just looking out ahead and realized that I still need to come up with my two books for the next meeting of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic.
I have closed and archived a number of blogs I had in different places over the past year.
They all now sit in words.philpin.com.
During ‘🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic meeting’ this morning, I finally decided to point an obsidian vault at the blot folder - and see what comes out.
📚My Goodness Time Flies …
🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is upon us again!
Watch out for the deets in your email and calendars ….
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!
Important to 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic
With thanks to @richnewman and his demo on 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic earlier this week, I find myself looking at DevonTHINK again.
The price mentioned on the day was a couple of hundred bucks - but it looks like there is a version at $100 - will I be disappointed?
🖇️ The second session of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is coming up - delighted that @artkavanagh will be hosting. Sadly @ton will not be able to make it, so his session will need to run at a future event.
Otherwise, looks like we are all in for a good session on the 6th/7th March.
We MUST Abandon the Language of the Market to Reclaim our Humanity
🔗 Thomas Keneally’s 2020s vision: We must abandon the language of the market to reclaim our humanity
I posted this link at the time it was published (2020).
It surfaced the other day through my DayONE - and I decided to repost it in the category 🖇️ ‘Language Is Important’- ‘Tom’ and I are on the same page.
‘Language Is Important' - a new category now available on this blog.
LATER
Category depricated - that said 🔗 🔎 click here - and all those posts re categorized will come up - along with a lot more.