Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
– Neil Gaiman, via Ten rules for writing fiction
When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.
John Gruber’s list of ways Apple can improve. It’s not only about Apple, but about any entity that wants to be like Apple in their field.
A young boy traveled across Japan to the school of a famous martial artist. When he arrived at the dojo he was given an audience by the Sensei
“What do you wish from me?” the master asked. “I wish to be your student and become the finest kareteka in the land,” the boy replied. “How long must I study?” “Ten years at least,” the master answered. “Ten years is a long time,” said the boy. “What if I studied twice as hard as all your other students?” “Twenty years,” replied the master. “Twenty years! What if I practice day and night with all my effort?” “Thirty years,” was the master’s reply. “How is it that each time I say I will work harder, you tell me that it will take longer?” the boy asked. “The answer is clear. When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur
Objects of the class "Foghorn Leghorn"
Andrew Gelman defines a term for when a parody becomes more popular than what it parodies.
How to sync Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox text documents with Hazel
Update: None of this works. Download Notational Velocity.
Dropbox is optional. You don’t need it, it just provides another means of accessing your text notes.
- Get Hazel
- Get Notational Velocity
- Get Simplenote
- Get SimplenoteSync
- Run the command sudo perl -MCPAN -e “install Crypt::SSLeay” in the Terminal, and just accept the defaults. Make a .simplenotesync file in your home directory following the instructions on the SimplenoteSync page.
- Set the default note location in Notational Velocity to be someplace in your Dropbox directory, and have it use text files instead of a database.
- Set up a Hazel rule as follows: If any of the following conditions are met: Date Last Modified is in the last 1 minute Do the following: Run shell script SimplenoteSync.pl. Call it “Sync Changes”.
- Set up another rule as follows: If all of the following conditions are met: Name is donotdeleteforsyncpurposes and Date Last Matched is not in the last 10 minutes Do the following: Run shell script SimplenoteSync.pl.
- Create a file in Notational Velocity called “donotdeleteforsyncpurposes”.
Every 10 minutes, or whenever a file is changed locally, Hazel will run the sync script. You can change this 10 minute delay as you like; Simplenote told me that every few minutes is fine.
This will work until there’s a desktop app that uses Simplenote’s API. I’m not responsible if your data is eaten by a cloud. Send feedback to jtth@jtth.net
"Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong."
"When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it."
"A young boy traveled across Japan to the school of a famous martial artist. When he arrived at the dojo he was given an audience by the Sensei
“What do you wish from me?” the master asked. “I wish to be your student and become the finest kareteka in the land,” the boy replied. “How long must I study?” “Ten years at least,” the master answered. “Ten years is a long time,” said the boy. “What if I studied twice as hard as all your other students?” “Twenty years,” replied the master. “Twenty years! What if I practice day and night with all my effort?” “Thirty years,” was the master’s reply. “How is it that each time I say I will work harder, you tell me that it will take longer?” the boy asked. “The answer is clear. When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way."
Objects of the class "Foghorn Leghorn"
How to sync Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox text documents with Hazel
