We are rewatching ‘Singin In The Rain’ once again. When I was younger I used to hate the whole ‘Broadway Melody’ section of the film.

Things have changed and I now understand just how magnificent it is.

I was reading an article on why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life and they mention Sherlock Holmes’ 221B Baker Street in London. For me, it’s been clear for a long time that the Baker Street flat is actually an Edinburgh flat, reflecting Arthur Conan Doyle’s youth.

Updating all the fruit-based devices!

Updated my ‘now’ page.

Enjoying. The Casio F-91W in orange.

I’m looking for a tool (guillotine?) to be able to neatly remove the binding off notebooks for scanning.

Any recommendations to be able to do this quickly? I think I need to be able to slice through as many pages as possible.

There’s a new Ezra Collective album out today. Excited!

This is very interesting. I was curious to see how the number of prime ministers who could attend the UK ceremony of remembrance changes over time. It wasn’t the tradition to include former prime ministers until around the 1980s.

I wonder what causes that big change from the mid-2010s onwards? 🤔

Some of today was spent making kale pesto and also honey and sesame gluten free bread with added fennel, pumpkin and nigella seeds.

Talking of OmniFocus, as I was elsewhere…

When Things finally released a version that addressed my only gripe¹, I was tempted to switch back but only for moments. I’m too deeply dependent on OF perspectives but also the web app for Windows.

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1. Inability to complete recurring tasks early.

Updated my ‘now’ page.

I’m listening to an album called ‘Trilogie De La Mort’ by Eliane Rodigue. Each track is one-hour long and consists of a meditative, hypnotic drone played on an ARP synthesiser, with the first track inspired by the Tibetan Book of The Dead.

Despite that description, I’m finding it really beautiful.

I’m included in a local photography zine created by the lab I use. The theme was ‘sunny side up’ and mine is the black and white stairwell.

In my observation of how people organise apps on their phone there is generally one clear winner.

An endless stream of icons floating over a favourite photograph!

Wow! The Things to-do app now allows repeating to-dos to be checked off early! This was always my deal-breaker with this beautiful app but I’m so immersed in OmniFocus I don’t know if I can be bothered switching back.

I really like Fantastical’s Emoji Badges but just spotted the search feature only uses US English spellings. It’s probably only a problem if I go to the theatre or take an aeroplane.

Cute upholstery for the priority seats on Scotrail trains.

Collection reference: J2GJRCHT

Aforementioned Montblanc Lucky Orange ink.

There’s a lot to like about Montblanc Lucky Orange ink but the inevitable crustiness around the nib is not its most attractive feature.

My lovely Sømods Bolcher sweets. A birthday gift all the way from Copenhagen!

I’m very excited to learn that version 3 of Rego for iPhone is imminent. I occasionally feel I might be the only user left so I’m excited it’s got a future.

I finally have my iPhone location-based focus modes working automatically as I want. Left-to-right:

1. Work mode that activates when I arrive at work
2. My default layout when I am not at these places.
3. The ‘gym’ mode that activates at that location.

Birthday presents being enjoyed. Including loads of my favourite sweets from Copenhagen.

Updated my ‘now’ page on the night before my birthday.