Daily Note - December 14, 2021

Published Dec 15, 2021

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Did Day 2 of “Mastering the Basics: Cycling” Peloton program. Also fixed my cleats again. The right cleat was not all the way forward and was slightly crooked.
My Headspace subscription ended because my previous employer was paying for it. I remembered reading about a similar app called “Calm”, so I thought I would give it a try and see which one I like best.
Signed up for 7-day free trial of Calm on iPhone. It’s different from Headspace. Not sure yet how I feel about it. Need to try more to make a decision.
Looks like Calm is offering 40% off the Premium plan.

Set up the new Discogs <-> Paypal integration for my record store. We’ll see how it works once I get the next order.
Was planning on publishing a daily note and recording a video of automating daily notes in Obsidian and for the blog, but it ended up taking most of the day researching different tools, and trying to get it working the way I wanted to in Keyboard Maestro. Once I got it working, I wanted the Shortcuts demo to look good, so
I tried to use Alfred and macOS Shortcuts in Monterey for automating the daily note in Sublime Text but doesn’t look like you can type/paste text in iTerm. Running shell script didn’t have access to Ruby env for some reason.
Discovered the Obsidian Admonition plugin, which adds some color to the template.
I think the template is almost ready to go. One last thing would be to create a section for the random Pinboard items. Instead of just one, pick 3 in case some are short reads, since I gave myself 30 minutes to read.

Discovered the Obsidian Checklist plugin, which is better than the GTD one because you can group by tags and it supports any tag you want. Now I need to find a way to further filter the todos by tags. I tried tagging twice, but it only places it in the first tag. One workaround is to use subtags like #todo/blog/urgent/important or #todo/blog/today. Maybe look at Tag Wrangler and Reminder for todos. Basically I want to be able to filter todos so I can pick a few for the next day. I want to see if any are due, and sort by the Eisenhower matrix.

Discovered blog.new_article_template config option in Middleman. I had been meaning to set that up for a long time! It’s limited to just one template though. But that could also be automated with Keyboard Maestro. For example, one macro would use the daily note template, and another would create a regular blog post. Or, just use the macro for the daily note, and keep the Middleman template for regular blog posts.
Looks like Obsidian is working on an editor that will render Markdown as you type, like Bear, and Typora. It’s available in the Insider Builds, which I can get access to by paying one-time $25 for the Catalyst plan. Might be worth it. That way, when the shortcut runs, it will automatically be rendered, which would look cool in the video.