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#solstice #yule

Working with the Forever✱Notes scheme in Apple Notes and I find that there are wonderful reasons to use Notes for the purpose. And I’m learning there are some things that I wish notes could already do.

I wish individual Notes had anchor tags, like old HTML, so I could have a sort of table of contents for a long note and jump from the top of a note to a specific section.

Links between notes work great, so I suppose the obvious solution is to break the long note into separate items that can be linked? Maybe now I understand the Forever✱Notes Hub concept?

Tonight I verified that tags work for the Apple Notes index and for searching, but not as links in and of themselves. The drawback is that instead of going from a note with a tag directly to other notes with the same tag, I need to scroll the list of tags to find the tag for the note I’m already on to go to the full list of notes with that tag.

Again, Notes is free for the price of your devices and the sync just works with the base iCloud functionality.

So, just like always, I’ve got a tool that mostly does what I want and need, but I’m looking at other tools once again. All the while I understand there are always trade offs.

Thank you for hanging with me while I think out loud.

Blogging about journaling is less meta than blogging about blogging, right?

Out of twenty things in the list, I have only not owned an encyclopedia, though many of my peers did. The rest of the experiences were all very normal at various points in my life. Just like sniffing freshly mimeographed worksheets at school. Remember worksheets, anyone? Carrying dimes and quarters for a pay phone?

There is lots of media with things that were once normal. I re-watched Christmas Vacation again today and was struck by normal things depicted that were such a standard part of life during filming but aren’t now.

I have a model that my dad’s father made in his own workshop of a working wagon with runners with a team of horses in yokes and full harnesses. It’s not beautiful, but accurate. He was bringing something to life from his memory of a way of life that had changed dramatically for him, too.

Thinking a lot of things that will pass from memory as we all change. I blame Lord of the Rings, but also December in Minnesota, and being 57 years old.

That feeling when you learn your phone is still in your car because your glucose monitor app is reporting a lack of communication with the sensor.

Stands to reason.

#mnwx #aurora #msp

#aurora #mnwx #msp

Northern Lights visible in Northern sky and overhead in St. Paul, MN. #mnwx

TIL, with a heavy heart, that the browser extension for Bear and the Stop the Madness extension on iPadOS make Safari open new tabs with every link.

It does not at all seem to be related to any of the Safari Settings themselves. It is also not every extension.

I have studied Plex a little more over the past few days, and found a way to improve recognition of lesser-known films and learned how to show more than one version of the same movie. It’s about metadata in the file names.

Multiple Editions - Movies
New Files Not Appearing After Library Scan