My first exposure to using text files to store little bits of information came from Merlin Mann on a Mac Power Users episode.¹ This is one of those episodes I consider part of the foundation of my personal automation path. Using Merlin's text file tag names has been a …

Drafts is one of my favorite apps and a lot of what I do gets started there. I've also started to use Editorial as my go to writing app.¹ So I finally got around to developing a couple of workflows for these two apps to work better together …

My recent posts on Drafts and Pythonista have focused using tools I have versus searching for tools I could use. A simple example in these posts has been on steps to conduct percent/URL encoding text.

Well @hiilppp has found the simplest and most elegant solution to URL encode a …

Sometimes when you come up with a solution, someone else has already found a more elegant solution. Case in point, my recent post on sharing text between Drafts and Pythonista. Shortly after sharing the post I got some feedback on the post and ultimately a tweet from the sensei of …

Drafts has become my digital text hub for my iOS devices. But one of the downsides of iOS automation, and relying on URL schemes, is when you find an app you want to use doesn’t support a full x-callback-url scheme. I do some text transformations in Pythonista, but Pythonista …