Author: sjwillis
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Why You Been Gone So Long
This has been one of my favorite songs lately. Really enjoy the Tony Rice version. Now that I’ve got my recording corner set up again in my home office I hope to be posting more videos. Enjoy:
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Reminder to Charge Apple Watch
Wrote up a handy little Keyboard Maestro macro that will remind me to charge my Apple Watch. The special sauce here is that it runs any and every time I wake up my Mac between 5AM and 10:30AM. You can download the Keyboard Maestro macro here. [update: So, Keyboard Maestro doesn’t have a trigger for “password…
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Apple Health HRV Data & Lyme Disease
I think Heart Rate Variability data (good overview from Harvard Medical Health Blog) can be a strong indicator of health relative to an individual’s baseline. The problem for me has always been “baseline.” In the early days of HRV, I measured my beat-to-beat measurements using my iPhone (occasionally paired to a Polar heart rate monitor)…
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Apple One
Signed up. It’s a no-brainer for my family as we were already on the 2TB cloud storage plan. AppleTV+ It’s got Ted Lasso. Enough said. kidding. Still AppleTV+ has some terrific stuff on it. And Ted Lasso. Apple News+ I’ve hated Apple News ever since it started asking me if I wanted to open RSS…
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Alan Jacobs – Breaking Bread with the Dead
Jacobs writes about Personal Density in the context of how our current media consumption via The Feed of social media comes at such volume and pressure that our now is becoming more and more compressed and narrow. What seemed so important to us just last week has already faded from our attention as quickly as…
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iOS Shortcuts and Email interfaces to OneNote
One of the tools in the MS Office suite we use at work that I find myself using more and more is OneNote. It is my “everything bucket.” Unfortunately, Microsoft’s OneNote can not be easily targeted by the powerful automation affordances that Apple provides (Apple Script, Keyboard Maestro, iOS shortcuts). Meaning, while OneNote runs on…
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Prepping for WFH during winter months
As we head out of summer, the shorter days combined with all of this working from home are going to present some real challenges when it comes to keeping my circadian rhythm chugging along. Over the years, I’ve had a variety of light boxes that I’ve used to try to keep my mood up and…
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Doing the math on Apple Watch 6 vs. SE
I think my next Apple Watch will almost certainly have cellular data on it. I love running in the woods without my phone (using just my watch and AirPods) but could definitely see the benefit of being able to call someone from my phone in an emergency. The biggest difference (besides price) between the 6…
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Diet success with Due App, shortcuts and app launching
Here’s one truth about how I lose weight: nothing is as effective as simply writing down what I eat. If I track everything I eat in a calorie tracking app (I use one called Track, but there are a bunch of similar apps), I eat less. Maybe seeing what I’m eating makes me more conservative…
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Amazon quietly removes ability to download order history
At the end of each month, I run an Automator process on my Mac that loads that month’s Amazon Order History file into a markdown table in Day One. I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now and it’s useful for a whole bunch of reasons. When did I buy something? Just search…