getting a-shell mini setup again

pkg install nnn (file browser)
mkdir -p ~/Documents/.vim/pack/bweew/start
lg2 clone nerdtree, vimwiki gruvbox, vim-orgmode

• use the pickFolder command to set bookmarks outside of the sandbox
• z command jumps to those bookmarks

let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path' : '~/Documents/vimwiki/'}]

add that to your .vimrc so vimwiki can work properly

audiolayer for sampling auv3

inter device audio IADM and midi i don't think it works on linux. but I could use audiolayer to make some soundfonts and bring those into renoise
demo of the auto sampling feature

disable/ enable livetext

settings > general > language > turn off livetext

on iPhones it's annoying when you try to select a photo and it starts grabbing text but sometimes its really useful. like for screenshotting error logs and chatgpting them

darker dark mode ios

recently discovered these setings under accessibility:

• display and text size

1. reduce white point
2. color filters on

• grayscale

easy on the brain
enjoy!

of course if you scroll further down there’s color tint if you want some redshift blur light blocker effect. that’s not my jam. makes me feel like i’m one of those roast ducks in the Chinese bbq. red used to be my favourite color. well i do still like it but for a phone screen no way. gray is the best. i feel like i’m watching tv in the 1950s or my phone is in metal band.

ios reading list key commands

reading list is cool if you want to do it like my previous method.
but thats not even neccesary on an ipad w a bluetooth keyboard w vim binds on the browser. just yy cmd shift to textastic comma and type the title. easier way to make the csv for the website links

safari on ipad

• ctrl cmd 2 = show reading list sidebar
• ctrl cmd d = add to reading list
• ctrl cmd 1 = bookmarks sidebar
• ctrl cmd 3 = history sidebar

vim-like extension

• yy to copy link

the globe key rules

remapping r cmd to be globe key opens up new possibilities on mac. I'm going to add it to my bag of tricks along side remapping caps lock to escape with Karabiner for a better time using vim. what made me see the value in this is using full keyboard control on the ipad. I tried enabling it once and found that often keyboard shortcuts would be stolen from other apps making it frustrating to use. being able to toggle it on and off with control opt cmd p is essential to getting this to work.

VIM THINGS I LEARNED TODAY:

• gq slaps some line-breaks into your long run on sentance making it easier to edit. no need to mess with gj and gk to traverse a cumbersome block.
• '' (2 single quotes) in normal mode jump you to the last place you were at.
• :set nospel = turn off spellcheck
• ~ (tilde) swap case under letter
• option esc = speak selected text on mac

how to get a youtube transcript

emacs had a great rss reader called elfeed tube that auto transcribes youtube videos. but i was wondering what can i use on my phone?

youtube transcript

on safari tap to the left of the address bar to enter reader mode. not only does this let you have a nice dark reader mode but more importantly it will hide any adds and nonsense on the side do you can select all the text to copy it.

• an alternative

on iphone: go into settings, accessibility, enable speak screen.

• when you swipe down from the top it will read your screen and there is a toolbar for controls. i like to put it to 2x speed.

beorg x callback

voice control beorg

hold home button and say "run dotjot"
siri will run the shortcut asking you for the headline for your todo.
you can add &notes= to the x-callback url if you want to create outlines (i wanted to keep it simple). my shortcut for beorg todos w siri

• you need to make a template called todo for it to work

how to set path on vimwiki

add this to your vimrc

let g:vimwiki_path = '~/Documents/vimwiki/'

It's annoying how when you first try to run vimwiki on an iphone it prompts to create the vimwiki folder but it can't properly in a-shell mini because of sandboxing. The github page said just look it up in the manual. :h vimwiki_list. for some reason the help docs weren't opening for me so anyway I just asked chatgpt for some lines to add to the vimrc.

squarebeat

ios tracker sequencer just released. it can load auv3 plugins!! its so wicked!!

a jungle demo track on youtube

doesnt have keyboard shortcuts but its been well optimized well for the small touch interface of a phone. easier than sunvox, you dont need to be a genius to use. Thats a big deal, most of the time trackers seem too complicated. its alot more like renoise reminds me a bit of lgpt. can load auv3 effects on seperate mix busses and import your own samples. its free to try but doesnt let you save or export the unlock iap is 17 bucks canadian

a-shell mini vim setup

a-shell can run vim!!

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• put .vimrc in ~/documents
• vimplug doesn’t work you gotta install them manually
• git doensn’t work properly instead you use lg2
• path to install plugins is ~/documents/.vim/pack/*/start/
• pickFolder is the command to select a folder
• lg2 clone https://github.com/theplugin

https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
https://github.com/jiangmiao/auto-pairs
https://github.com/ap/vim-css-color
https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
https://github.com/907th/vim-auto-save
https://github.com/mattn/emmet-vim
https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown

set background=dark
syntax enable
set nobackup
set nowb
set noswapfile
set number
set autoread
set wildmenu
set ffs=unix,dos,mac
set encoding=utf8
set showmatch
set backspace=eol,start,indent
set autoread
set wrap
set si
set ai
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set smarttab
set expandtab
set nocompatible
filetype plugin on
set autowriteall
set laststatus=2
" Emmet shortcuts
let g:user_emmet_mode='n'
let g:user_emmet_leader_key=','

Capture text from Screen on mac with shortcuts

Capture text from Screen on mac with shortcuts

I need to get more into using shortcuts. 

I feel like ive barely scratched the surface on what you can do with a mac.

I completely glossed over some really basic stuff like using mission control and 4 finger swiping.

I disabled mission control because it was interfering with milkytracker hotkeys.

cmd left right to go  to start and end of the line

alt left right to got fwd back a word

learned those from ali abdaal.

I picked up a bunch of tricks from linux land.

bunch of times ive installed some 3rd party app to do something basic that was built in all along.

amethyst is a tiling window manager thats kind of like dwm or i3 

i dont like how i cant get to my desktop to drag something to it when its on though

its better just to 3 finger swipe up and have all the work spaces

dragging a window on top of another window splits it which is what i wanted all along from a tiling window manger.

i got a lot from learning vim motions 

speedy text editing, when i made it a priority to look up shortcuts it was annoying to not have them.

but having cmd and alt arrows with shift is good enough and then i dont have to deal with getting in and out of normal mode in vim.

 saw photopea had an extension for OCR. (optical character recognition)

turns out thats stock in ios 15 (too bad my se only goes up to 14)

I kind of like how my phone is dumb enough to find pictures of my notes illegible.

it gives me some peace of mind.

but OCR is a huge feature like being able to auto translate stuff.

ive tried some OCR and it ruined the formatting

i just learned in the notes app you can preserve it as a block thats huuuge.

i havent been using the notes app to its fullest potential.

I got into mweb,  textastic, collections, vimwiki,  general db before it could make sense.

database features, tags and categories I learned about that from HUGO. 

obsidian/ notion really got me thinking about categorizing things.

messing around with vimwiki and installing things from scratch taught me to appreciate things.

when all the features are there but you dont understand them because you didnt put them there yourself.

that makes it easy to over look the value. its camouflaged in plain sight.

 

ios constantly filling up on storage pushed me back to basics. when i had 5 apps that kind of did the same thing i was forced to think how can i simply this.

IOS databases

some suggestions from gpt

1. tap forms
2. airtable
3. memento
4. filemaker go
5. handDbase - looks ancient
6. mobiDB - looks good

tap forms looks nice but pricy, saw another one called general database that looked ok.

for a sql db i saw

1. SQLiteFlow -sqlite
2. Database viewer plus
3. SQLpro for SQLite
4. Navicat
5. Base - sqlite

apparently sqlite is preinstalled on mac: gui called db browser

alternatives

• postgresql
• mongodb
• mysql

sqlite is serverless while mysql uses client-server architecture

sql- replication, distributed transactions, clustering, high performance scalablility.

mysql - embedded on local filesystem

explainingcomputers: explaining libreoffice database