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The Mylio conundrum | Baty.net
First, Mylio is a $240/year subscription. Many of you will shrug and walk away right there. I did too, but when I think about how much time and energy I spend dealing with all this, it feels more reasonable. It should be $10/month but I can’t control that.
Second, do I really want more software in the loop? I don’t, but Mylio adds a lot of value.
I wrote this in 2019.
I'm thinking that the apps you should use are the ones you tend to grab in an emergency, not the ones you tinker with all day on a Saturday just because they're neato.
It's true.
In case you didn't think I could get any weirder.
Here's a screenshot of TheBrain rendering the page from my wiki entry for TheBrain right in TheBrain's Notes pane...hahahaha.
Honestly, I'm exhausted by software right now. I've been trying too much at once. If you'll excuse me I'm going to go rub sticks together to make a fire.
If you want to know which TODO app I use, just look for the one that's had the most recent updates. e.g. OmniFocus 4.7.
At the prompting of just about everyone I know, I had a 5-hour ADHD screening today. I won't know any results for a couple of weeks, but right now I feel like I failed an IQ test.
Oh cool, typing response is lagging just a teeny bit and it's driving me buggy. I wondered if it was my new Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID because that would be exactly the kind of thing technology does to me these days, but typing on the HHKB felt the same. It's intermittent and doesn't seem related to CPU or anything. Oh well, on the plus side it got me to dig out the HHKB again, which I love and should maybe have never stopped using.
The older I get, the less I care about Operating Systems.
I read the news today, Oh Boy! Seriously, every single story shocked, saddened, or horrified me. Sometimes all three. Even more than usual. What the fuck is going on with people?
Are we doing this here again, today? There's still a broken image in the header and I don't feel like figuring out why. Not a good sign.
I bought a laptop for use as my sole computer so I didn't have to think about sync or duplicate configurations when away from my desk. I almost never use it away from my desk.
I removed the weather information from journal posts here. I'll likely do it on the other blog, too. It's only a little work to maintain, but it's work that doesn't get me anything. No one, not even me, cares what the weather was on a given day, so why bother with it? If it's important to the "story", I'll add it to the post.
I woke up this morning and remembered that I'd moved this from Tinderbox to Kirby. Oh right, now I have to figure out all the things I didn't want to deal with when I moved away from it like a month ago. You know, as I do.
Baty.net has passed more than 1,000 visits for the last few days and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Part of me wishes I was oblivious, because now I feel like I owe people something. Also, with too many people listening, I'm less inclined to speak freely and openly for fear that I'll spend too much time defending myself to strangers. It makes me want to write more here and on the wiki, since not as many people are listening.
I almost forgot that I'd pre-ordered a Pebble 2 Duo! It should ship in September. Pretty cool. I keep finding novel ways to avoid wearing my Apple Watch.
I have little interest in maintaining a custom build of anything. For example, this blog is managed using Kirby. I had to make all the templates myself so that it works the way I like. Now, I barely remember how anything works and heaven help me if I need to fix or change something. Maybe I'll just use it until it breaks.
I'm this close to liking Kirby for the daily blog. I like how it works, and I don't mind using the panel for composing. What I don't like is managing the site vs the content. Everything feels intertwingled so that it's not just a matter of syncing ./site vs /content. For example, one shouldn't sync ./site/cache or ./site/accounts but should sync ./site/blueprints, etc. I post directly to the server via the panel, so that means I don't have recent content locally. I have a justfile that works around this, but it feels too fragile. For now I'm leaving things alone and ignoring the icky feeling it gives me. One day something will break and I'll have no clue how to fix it. That'll be fun.