your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

Konfabulator is cool and actually, pretty easy to program. As is AppleScript.

ShapeShifter is a lot like Kaleidoscope if that's your bag.

GarageBand is pretty awesome, as is iLIFE in general. FUCKING IDVD4 WON'T BURN FOR ME THOUGH.

Bit Torrent kicks ass. So does WeatherPop. MacMAME for-evah!

VLC plays .avi files very well, including divx.

Marine Aquarium is amazing.

Peak is a seriously good tool for music.

I tried to go over to Mail and lasted a few weeks until it started crashing all the time. I'm now back on Entourage.

and Mail is still the best for IMAP email (I use IMAP for everything instead of POP)

Never let the flame be extinguished.

Is Safari the best browser to run these days?

See the wikipedia on IMAP and POP.

I don't know why, but I got very exited about this, despite not knowing "scriptable" from a bite in the leg.

Actually, at least here, most ISPs let you chose which one you want to use. IMAP stores the mail files on the server (can log in from anywhere & have all yr mail available to you) vs. POP downloads it to your computer (if you log in on a different computer, you won't see any of yr mail in the server inbox). My ideal is IMAP with a copy of the mail on my local disk for backup. I check my mail all over on different computers, so I like having all my messages always available.

(xp!)

Anyway, what is a good homepage that a) is not google and b) is not ilxor?

This is the default for my safari:

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/weather/default.jsp

How do I toggle back and forth between applications? And why does my Acquisition icon keep bouncing up and down when I am not using it?

and I don't know!

Actually it's Konqueror.

I like the idea of Obsidian but it seems like the ultimate "fuck around with the settings rather than get things done" kind of app. Like, I would spend all my time building taxonomies as a way to procrastinate.

i get what you mean but i think its mostly fine. its adoption by the zettelkasten community is the source of that vibe. i was as happy as i was going to be with it after changing like 3 settings.

(i think it was just cosmetic stuff re: colorscheme and font, teaching it the folder structure i wanted, and a shortcut to open a dated for today)

*a dated note

I might try Obsidian again when I go back to Uni in October. I mostly use Scrivener (e.g. for keeping notes and essay writing), and even though it can be hard work, and the updates are never what I want, I just prefer Scrivener's look and feel.

a weird neovim plugin with very few users that i like a lot but doesn't appear to be maintained and i cannot in good faith recommend

Oh perfect. AND I can pretend that I'm finally going to become really nimble with vim.

I'm keeping to-dos in Logseq (similar to Obsidian) and have been toying with moving my notes there. It's great for what I'm using it for, but I'm leery. And, dammit, the unified title display / search / create UI hasn't been bettered.

The Zettelkasten crew led me to this app The Archive which has exactly that UI and is actually pretty decent so far https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/

that looks perfect, stet, thanks. have been using nvultra for a while, but it's trying to do a lot more than i want. i don't really like the *feel* of obsidian, even though really it's doing a lot of what I want. i do find logseq good for work - daily meeting journal, key areas as pages etc. but for personal stuff I just want raw note taking. my old simplenote on phone + nvalt on mac set-up was perfect tbh.

Alternate plug for iaWriter as my solution for this. I keep trying to use Obsidian and whatever new system comes along, but i dunno - I can procrastinate enough tags out before doing actual work.

my favorite technology "radar" (because it's the the only one of these kind of things that isn't completely worthless) has logseq in it's quarterly report

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/logseq-as-team-knowledge-base

I have thoughts on thoughtworks but I, too, appreciate their tech radar

Just posted a vague and messy question tangentially related to this:

Second Brain: Note taking, productivity, Notion, Airtable, Obsidian, Mondays, Asana etc