Wednesday, December 13, 2023

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I like Kirby, but I miss the collect-individual-notes-into-a-daily-post that I'd built for daily.baty.net in Tinderbox. I bet there's a way to build something similar using Kirby, but I'm not sure I know enough about Kirby yet to pull it off.
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moribund | ˈmôrəˌbənd |
adjective
‣ decline; lacking vitality or vigor
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I paid $75 for the OmniFocus 4 upgrade from v3. I figure I'd give the old OF another run. It's a very powerful app, but suffers because of it. Still, I love the built-in review feature. Also, I'm trying to move tasks out of Org-mode, so this was incentive. At the rate that OmniGroup updates OmniFocus, that $75 should last me three or four years.
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Well, the most recent position I applied for, and one for which I'm more than qualified for, is "going to move ahead with another candidate". Disappointing, but onward, I guess.
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I've added this note in Kirby's panel using the new "Note.yml" blueprint, Huzzah!
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Emacs is neat
I finally found a case for using indirect buffers in Emacs. Kirby content files are text, but not formatted using "normal" YAML. This puts the "Text:" field in the middle of the other fields, making it less convenient to edit. So, I can just mark the Text: field and run
edit-indirect-region
and poof, I'm off in a new buffer containing only that section of the original file. Emacs is neat. All that's left is to force visual-line-mode and markdown-mode in the new buffer.Oh, I'd forgotten about
narrow-to-region
which is even better for this. I narrow to Org-mode headings all the time, but didn't consider using it here by selecting the "Text:" field and narrowing to just that region. This way, all of my settings remain intact and I don't have to worry about restoring them in the indirect buffer.