Author: Max Drake

just reviewed my website and see that I have not posted anything since November. A change of habits and a focus on some different projects. The change of habit is in using Obsidian for most of my note taking of late. I find it a very handy tool to chart progress on projects I’m working

The web page for the Tree Diagram Background story My daughter is a grower and she had information on the different generations of plants she is growing. She has a spreadsheet that she uses to show different strains of plants, grown initially from seed and then cloning the plants to get the best strains. To

Background to issue Major stuffup, I’d got spam comments on website and I deleted about 2/3 of my post table rows. This lost me all my download links to code files for eBooks I’d published. I was foolish in that I didn’t have a backup of the website (I do now) so I had to

Clippings is an add-on in Firefox and Thunderbird. It allows you to store clips for reuse. You can set hotkeys to access them, but you need to do another hotkey before you can access the hotkey you want , so a 2 step process. I suppose that could be good if you have massive repetitions

Background to the issue I’ve been having a few issues with losing files recently. My new (bought 2nd hand) QNAP 2 bay storage device crashed, so I had to reformat the 2 drives in that and start over. I’d been using that as main backup of current files for about 6 months so I was

I finally got around to doing a YouTube Video on Obsidian and got a couple of comments back, one on using syncthing ( a free peer to peer syncing program) and one on Logsec v Obsidian. So I had to go and look up Logsec and find out what it was. The description is almost

I’ve been working on a project that has been going on for years, I’m picking up aspects of the project and doing some work on them and then leaving them for a while. I’ve had issues with finding the relevant documents later as I’m dipping in and out of the folders and moving things around,

I’ve been reading the Joe Glines weekly friday newsletter and it had an item in it about using Quick Access Popup (QAP) for auto filling in forms. I have setup a couple of Auto fill forms for some of my CPD requirements for registering and I’ve assigned them to hotkeys. Whilst this is great I

I was doing a regular check on free productivity tools and came across this video: The 2 items that interested me was a Text expander Espanso and Program launcher Flow Launcher. Both are available on Github for free. Espanso Text Expander Espanso seems to be like AutoHotKey but is cross platform so can be used

I thought this was cool. VRSEAT for choosing Theatre seats. This is a cool extension on what I was playing with in Revit and 3d package, to show view from a specific seat, I’d used the ASB basketball centre on the waterfront for my example. My only comment is that you don’t see the seat