Daily Note - December 13, 2021

Published Dec 14, 2021

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Started listening to Matt Walker’s book on sleep in the car. We really need to enforce 8 hours.
Started Peloton cycling basics program from beginning. It’s good that it’s on a Monday. Hopefully I’ll stick to it this time.
Got vaccination record from Safeway and added it to Apple Wallet.
Costco patched the tire for free since I bought the tires there. They found a screw. Took about an hour. I shopped in the meantime. I got Britannica’s First Big Book of Why for the kids.

Business

While creating a daily note for the blog, I realized I wasn’t sure what to use for the title. Something like “Daily Note: December 12, 2021”? If I organize by tag, “daily note” feels redundant. But for bookmarking, it makes sense to be even more specific, like “Moncef’s Daily Notes: December 13, 2021”. No, scratch that. I already have “| Moncef Belyamani” as part of every page title. For displaying all the daily notes, I can create a new page and use frontmatter to create a short title with just the date.
For now, I went with “Daily Note - December 12, 2021”
Stripe integration is finally here on SavvyCal. I set it up. You can see how it works in this paid consultation for people who need help setting up a development environment.

Productivity

Found NotePlan through Setapp. Did a search for Obsidian vs NotePlan and found articles showing how both can work together. They both store files locally.
Read through some more Obsidian and Shortcuts ideas from iOS Shortcuts - Share your ideas! - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum. Here’s an interesting one. I wonder if this can replace the Scannable app I use to take photos of bills and receipts that get uploaded to Evernote. OCR is great in Evernote. I wonder if the OCR plugins in Obsidian are as good.

I’m new to Obsidian and love how with Shortcuts ToolBox Pro, I can create new scans, notes, and web clippings, ask where to store everything, and then have the file open in Obsidian. My most complex shortcut creates a scan in ToolBox Pro, changes the quality to a smaller file size in, saves the image to the Shortcuts temp folder, asks for a title of the doc, creates a new doc with the date and title, saves to temp, asks where I want the note, Toolbox Pro copies the note to the proper folder in Obsidian and files the pic in attachments, the temp files get deleted, and then the note title is turned into an x-callback URL to open the note in Obsidian. The one hiccup I’ve encountered is that it in most of my shortcuts like this, I need to open Obsidian to index the note, then open shortcuts to finish the script, and then launch the x-callback command. I tried a timeout timer instead of returning to shortcuts, but it didn’t work and this way is faster. The back and forth between the apps is all in the shortcut, so I just have to watch.

Updated Daily Note shortcut to pick random item from reading-now Pinboard list.

TIL

Pinboard has RSS feed for tags! As part of automating the Obsidian daily notes template with Shortcuts, I thought it would be cool to grab a random item from my reading list. If you visit my public reading list on Pinboard, you will see an RSS link at the top.

To Do Tomorrow

Create a KM macro to automate daily notes