ever since discovering how great siri is ive been making shortcuts for everything.
I asked siri to close apps but it said that finder doesn't integrate yet. well theres ways..
made a shortcut called "close apps" so when i tell siri it runs the shortcut.
Its just running a shell script that pkills a bunch of apps i probably have running. it looks like this:
food
hold homebutton, say food.
make sure you have a file called food and a template called food.
The cool thing about this is it sorts by year month day and time and generates a nice looking PDF report of the things you ate. It takes advantage of the Emacs outline, collapsing structure, so you can easily view the things that you ate over a period of time and gain some insights perhaps.
hold home button and say "run dotjot"
siri will run the shortcut asking you for the headline for your todo.
you can add ¬es= 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
used karabiner to map f13 to f20 figured out what the blocker was.
I was stuck with f14 f15 not working thought apple just didnt let you use f13-f20, that they were just there to taunt you. I read somewhere that they just dont let you..
I actually believed that oh mann thats ridiculous.
almost gave up.
what I realized was f14, f15 were mapped to brightness
so you simply uncheck that and it works!!
I cmd shift 4'd the icons in shortcuts and layed them out in excalidraw. tried to use pinta and paintbrush but they both suck! they dont let you have more than one layer.
ms paint was soo much better. mypaint on linux was good.
apparently it can work with macapps package manager (homebrews evil twin)but last time i tried to install macapps it took forever and did nothing. I think i terminated the download by closing my laptop (before i knew about tmux detached sessions) I didnt want to wait around with my laptop case open or spend all day waiting for it to finish.
karabiner'd the windows "help key" to get an extra shortcut
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.
