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29 Feb 2024
Recently, while working on a new Alfred workflow, I found myself once again wishing that Alfred workflows supported subroutines or functions. Something that would give me better reuse of chunks of my workflow so I could keep things as a single source. For the most part I rely on using a single script for this kind of work, but sometimes a script alone isn’t the best way to do it, rather multiple workflow steps would provide a better result. After thinking it through and tinkering, I came up with a solution that worked and I have since put into practice. A kind of pseudo-function approach if you will.
Read More30 Jan 2024
This post is, in a sense, a natural follow up to my Path-based Commands in Obsidian post from around this time last year. In that post I demonstrated how you could trigger command line tools from within Obsidian using the Templater plugin. In this post I’m flipping that around, and rather than going external, I am focusing on the internal. The text within an Obsidian note. However, rather than adding new content, I am going to tell you a little about how I am also using Templater to convert existing content, transforming it in a variety of ways to effectively build my own text processing functionality within Obsidian.
Read More23 Jan 2024
Do you ever find yourself needing to visit web pages that are no longer available? I seem to go through phases of this, and being able to reference back to an archived copy is very useful. There are a number of services and approaches where you can archive your own copies of web pages, but that does not help when it is a site you never visited before and so did not have a chance to archive a copy for your own use.
Enter the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine”, and I have a little Keyboard Maestro macro to make it a little easier to use of it.
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