Summer is here¹ and I'm starting to work in odder locations - some by choice and some due to my work schedule. Normally I work from a Mac, but my travel schedule has led me back to my iPad to get my work done. I love the portability of my …

The long holiday weekend allowed me to catch up on some reading ¹ and some more ideas on matching my macOS automations for my iPad. In preparation for upcoming posts, I started looking at ways to get image links easily formatted for my site.

Since I write in Markdown, inserting …

There's a funny thing that happens when you start using good tools, you only want to use your good tools. One of my favorite tools for a while now has been the Markdown¹ text file format. The upside to using Markdown is that it's also the format I use …

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 …