Looking at social media tonight I saw something apologising for being “1 minute and 49 seconds long but don’t let that put you off” and I thought have we come to a point where we have to challenge people to focus for two minutes.

And I sound so old…

Our friend Maggie’s big birthday party has an amazing cake. In this case ‘abridged’ means gluten-free and that’s for me.

Some postcards heading out into the wild. Heading to some of the ‘Analog Tools’ people.

Over on the big blog I’ve been re-evaluating my Apple browser choices. Concluding that third-party browsers are on balance better but it’s close.

I wonder if I’ve missed anything.

Choosing pens for the week ahead, I decided to go with a theme.

I’m struggling to think of any other electronic hardware from the 1980s I’m still using now.

With a major update to MacOS I feel the need to try Safari again. It has some real advantages in how it integrates across all the Apples. I still prefer Orion on the Mac, especially for how well it handles loads of tabs in a vertical sidebar.

My next pocket notebook is an Iconic Adorable (that’s the name!) notebook.

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.