May 12 2023

cool chip.

Quotes

At times I have had many next actions that required me to be in “creative writing” mode; though those actions were At Computer, they required a different time and frame of mind than the rest of the things I needed to do at my laptop. It was much more relaxing and productive to manage my focus by sorting those onto a different, Creative Writing action list. I currently divide my computer-required actions into those that don’t require an Internet connection, those that do, and those that are just surfing (potentially fun or interesting things on the Web to explore). (Location 3745)

Code

Append to Resources (ATR) is my response to fast PARA style addition of resources without context switching. For non Alfred or Mac users the idea stays the same. You come across research that is useful to you what next? Where do you save it? How do you leverage it? Cite it?

ATR does:

copy a link in arc (cmd-shift-c)!!

filter project folder in Alfred

copy link into alfred

the entire workflow

append link into Obsidian

Here's the code!

Script Filter

#!/bin/bash

shopt -s nullglob

echo "<?xml version='1.0'?><items>"

for project_path in "/Users/bram/Desktop/Obsidian/2023/_PARA/Projects"/*
do
  project=$(basename "$project_path")
  echo "<item uid='$project' arg='$project,' query='$query' valid='YES'><title>$project</title><subtitle>Append to Resources.md in this project</subtitle></item>"
done

echo "</items>"

Script to Append to Resources

update 2023-05-13:
commas turn out to be super common so it now splits on unicode for skull and crossbones: ☠️. In addition, the -d flag was added. The -d '' option tells read to continue reading until it encounters a null string, which effectively means it will read the entire input, including newline characters.

#!/bin/bash

IFS=$(printf '\u2620') read -d '' -r project query <<< "$1"
today=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")

echo "$query [[$today]]" >> "/Users/bram/Desktop/Obsidian/2023/_PARA/Projects/$project/Resources.md"

also added a version that pairs with Obsidian Kanban

#!/bin/bash

IFS=$(printf '\u2620') read -d '' -r project query <<< "$1"

query=${query//$'\n'/<br>}

# Specify the markdown file
MARKDOWN_FILE="/Users/bram/Desktop/Obsidian/2023/_PARA/Projects/$project/Kanban.md"

# Specify the line to be appended
TODO_LINE="- [ ] $query"

# Temp file
TEMP_FILE=$(mktemp)

# Flag to check if "# To Do" section was found
TODO_FOUND=0

while IFS= read -r line
do
  # If the line matches "## In Progress" and TODO_FOUND is set, write TODO_LINE
  if [[ $line == "## In Progress" ]] && [[ $TODO_FOUND -eq 1 ]]; then
    echo "$TODO_LINE" >> "$TEMP_FILE"
    TODO_FOUND=0
  fi

  # Write the current line to TEMP_FILE
  echo "$line" >> "$TEMP_FILE"

  # If the line matches "# To Do", set TODO_FOUND
  if [[ $line == "## To Do" ]]; then
    TODO_FOUND=1
  fi
done < "$MARKDOWN_FILE"

# Overwrite the original file with the temp file
mv "$TEMP_FILE" "$MARKDOWN_FILE"

echo "_PARA/Projects/$project/Kanban"

with Obsidian Advanced URI we can open the file directly in Obsidian in the same flow!!!

query=$1

encoded_string="${query// /%20}"
trimmed_encoded_string=$(echo "$encoded_string" | xargs)

open "obsidian://advanced-uri?vault=2023&filepath=$trimmed_encoded_string"

echo "obsidian://advanced-uri?vault=2023&filepath=$trimmed_encoded_string"

Videos

wild to go from planning to jump off a roof to peeping in on a lady dancing saving your life

same energy as

this music video is a whole ass movie wtf lol

IVE HAD THIS SHIT ON REPEAT

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