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Have My Notes Show In Search Engine Results

I have for some years now kept my own notes in Obsidian. And it’s bugged me that I’ll do a search using Google or DuckDuckGo for a thing I’ve already made a note about, a note that actually contains the answer I’m now searching for. This has meant that I’ve tried to get into the habit of searching my own notes first, but that doesn’t always happen, especially when I’m already in a web browser…

How I Manage Email

My sister commented that she needs a system to manage her email. I’m not the best at this, but I do have a system that works for me. This is how I manage email.

Jekyll Now Reinstall

Having migrated to a new laptop, I needed to reinstall Jekyll Now. And it failed. But then it worked.

Command P to Print

David Sparks over at macsparky.com has forever had the post on how to print using ⌘P⌘P to print to PDF. Last September he posted that it had now become canon at Apple.

Footnotes in Markdown

Using markdown is great. Creating and using footnotes in markdown is very manual. Painful even. So I’ve created a Keyboard Maestro shortcut to make them easier.

Punctuation Em Dash

To quote: The em dash is perhaps the most versatile punctuation mark Useful site called thepunctuationguide.com details how to use the em dash and many other punctuation marks.

Note Writing

I’ve been slowing focusing more on my writing — in a journal, status updates, client communications and documentation. Part of improving my writing is the taking of notes. The way I’ve taken notes has been rather slowly improving, but today I stumbled upon someone who is thinking and writing about writing notes.

Python Simulations

Good article over at Real Python on Simulating Real-World Processes With Python that includes a walk through using an example.

Link Roundup Friday March 2020

A few links I don’t want to lose track of are below, perhaps some of you will also find them useful.

Link Roundup Friday March 2020

A few links I don’t want to lose track of are below, perhaps some of you will also find them useful.