I’m having a great time using Journelly. It’s an org-mode based journaling tool built for iOS, which ticks some big nerd boxes for me. Journelly stamps metadata into the header of each entry, like weather and location, and then the app nicely renders that info on display in the app. And creating new entries is as frictionless as making a new note in Drafts or another editor – but with the bonus of living in a tidy, appealing timeline that Álvaro Ramírez calls “tweeting, but for your eyes only.” (By comparison, most of my time-and-place notes that I put in Drafts never make it out of the inbox, not since my long-ago slow blog over at my tilde.) Since Journelly’s data is stored in org-mode, it’s interoperable with emacs (see nice write-ups and usage notes by Mike, Jack, and Ellane1. Journelly’s developer also runs the new blog platform lmno and builds some other cool org-based tools.
Using the iPhone-based Journal app in recent iOS versions hasn’t stuck for me, despite being well-built and elegant, and of course it’s tightly integrated with the operating system. But I think I’m somewhat deterred by the fact that it only lives on the phone. I’m attracted to Journelly in part because it overcomes this limitation. I’m not doing it yet, but it’s easy to point the iOS app’s storage to an iCloud location and access it from anywhere you can run emacs, which opens up new ways to write and edit posts, but also to eventually publish or convert into a book or archive via Pandoc — so many possibilities.
Instant writing, with a powerful engine under the hood for a ton of flexibility, make Journelly a very neat little tool, one I’m happy to continue adventuring with.
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BTW, Ellane’s site looks like a treasure of plain text writing and organizing! There’s so much to go exploring over there. ↩︎
I’m spending more time tooling around Flickr lately, and realized quite suddenly just how much of my history is there. Different homes, at least two careers, friends and family and a whole lot of just life is in pictures that I shared there.
Shooting around with the camera, I realized that it was set to a slight crop and I couldn’t figure out why. I have no earthly idea how I turned on “sports finder” mode accidentally, but am sure glad this reddit post perfectly answered my question.
I’ve had my X100VI for nearly a year and still learned a bunch from this video by John Greengo: Mastering Fujifilm X100 VI Exposure Controls
Six years ago I saw Darlingside at the Music Instrument Museum. In the time since, many of their songs have become lifelong favorites, and last night I saw them again at this cozy neighborhood venue, captivated once again.1
They played a couple of songs un-amplified from places in the audience. It was a fun and particularly human few minutes, part of a special and memorable night.
This great dive into emacs by Matt Gemmell starts as so many emacs stories do, with a mostly-stranger saying, “Have you heard of org-mode?”
Nice late evening light at the park the other night.
Downtown for an appointment this morning, I managed to walk and take a few photos while the light was still a bit low.
I admire everybody who is able to complete all 29 stops on the Seattle Independent Bookstore tour in the past week. I checked off ten of the total stops and am looking forward to visiting more of them (and returning to many). After last weekend’s long Sunday of ferries plus walking around downtown I decided I deserved a big gelato. What a great event to motivate exploring across the entire city and into the outskirts.
