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• We are only now beginning to acquire reliable material for welding together the sum total of all that is known into a whole; but, on the other hand, it has become next to impossible for a single mind fully to command more than a small specialized portion of it. I can see no other escape from this dilemma…than that some of us should venture to embark on a synthesis of facts and theories, albeit with second-hand and incomplete knowledge of some of them—and at the risk of making fools of ourselves.
  —Erwin Schrödinger, in What Is Life?

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• ready for anything: 52 productivity principles for getting things done
  david allen 2003

• getting things done: the art of stress-free productivity
  david allen 2001

• getting things done for teens
  david allen 2018

• making it all work: winning at the game of work and business of life
  david allen 2008

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• managing projects with uncertain deadlines
  robert f. bordley et al. 2019
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.09.036

  • "Our society tends to think of deadlines as less flexible than other aspects of a project, but in reality, that's often not the case," said Tom Logan, a U-M doctoral student in industrial and operations engineering. "When we recognize that, it enables us to do some really novel things."

    Logan worked on the project with Robert Bordley, professor of practice and program director in Integrative Systems + Design at the U-M College of Engineering.

    In a series of experiments testing the team's technique, it improved the success rate of projects by up to 40 percent. That improved success rate can manifest itself in a variety of ways, including more timely completion, projects that are better tailored to their original requirements and improved profitability.

    "A deadline is just another stakeholder requirement and we all know that stakeholder requirements hold a certain amount of uncertainty," Bordley said. "We can't eliminate that uncertainty, but we can often quantify it. And I've found that the value of doing that is very big."

    The solution, detailed in a study published in the European Journal of Operational Research, is to work with stakeholders to understand the uncertainty and work it into the project as an active, manageable variable.

    The hard part comes first -- managers should ask for more than just the optimistic and pessimistic completion dates that are part of Project Evaluation and Review Technique, the statistical tool that underpins modern project management. This requires an honest sit-down with stakeholders and some digging to learn the reasoning behind those dates.

    "Stakeholders are always dealing with a complex set of uncertainties, but they are rarely shared with project managers. The goal is to bring the two worlds closer together and incorporate the knowledge that's uncovered into the management process," Bordley said.

    "I like to ask stakeholders to think of a situation that would cause a deadline to get pushed forward by a month, for example. Tell me about that situation, estimate how likely it is to happen. Focus on the extremes. That way, you end up with optimistic and pessimistic deadlines that are more than just numbers."

    With optimistic and pessimistic deadlines in hand, the next step is to indicate the uncertainty of the deadline within the project management system.

    To do this, Bordley says, add an additional, virtual activity to a project. The activity begins on the optimistic completion date and ends on the pessimistic completion date, creating a virtual bullseye for on-time completion. As long as the project finishes between the optimistic and pessimistic dates, it's considered on time. The more uncertainty in the deadline, the larger the bullseye.

    The manager can then make decisions based on the uncertainty of the deadline. A less certain deadline means a larger target and more flexibility to focus resources on other project requirements that are more certain.

    The virtual activity can also be adjusted as the project progresses -- shrinking as the deadline firms up or growing as uncertainty mounts. Either way, it gives the manager a running forecast of deadline uncertainty and the ability to plan accordingly.

    "This technique can save a manager from spending a lot of time and resources on a deadline that might not matter much in the end," Bordley said. "If it's soft, the manager can quickly see that it's soft and focus resources on other requirements that are less likely to change."

    To test the effectiveness of the modification, the team built a computer model that cycled through 1,000 simulated projects. First, they applied a traditional PERT project management model that ignores deadline uncertainty, then they applied their modified model that recognizes deadline uncertainty and adjusts resources as needed.

  • abstract •Project deadlines should often be treated as uncertain.
    •Deadline uncertainty is modeled by adding a dummy activity to the project.
    •Enhanced decision rules are found for crashing under deadline uncertainty.
    •Decision rules are compared over varied project networks using a designed experiment.
    •Accounting for deadline uncertainty can greatly increase the probability of success.

    In conventional project management, the project manager is given a deadline and is responsible for making decisions assuming this deadline will not change. But in reality, project deadlines frequently change. Conventional project management addresses unanticipated changes in the project deadline with external change control processes. If this external process changes the deadline, the manager will replace the original deadline with the modified deadline. The manager is still suppose to assume this modified deadline is fixed in making project decisions.

    As this paper will show, recognizing deadline uncertainty can substantially improve the value of the manager’s decisions. Deadline uncertainty could be formally addressed in project management by making dramatic changes in conventional project management. But given the widespread use of project management, making such dramatic changes might not be feasible. This paper presents a much more easily implemented approach to incorporating deadline uncertainty into managerial decision making which makes no changes to conventional project management procedures.

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• retrieve

  • files

    • (relatively) most private

      • icloud

        • restore deleted icloud files (within 30 days of deletion)
          open non-mobile browser to icloud.com
          go to account, icloud settings
          choose restore files

        • share files (note you can also share read-only)
          thesweetsetup.com/share-files-icloud-drive/

      • local storage app
        https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/local-storage/id1339306324?mt=8&at=1000lHAf

        • setup
          m.youtube.com/watch

    • large capacity

      • googledrive
        Link: drive.google.com

        • no data privacy, silently fails to upload files you have queued for upload — loses all rack of them, so if you do not already have a copy of the file elsewhere, it is now lost forever

    • for public files on the web via link

      • box
        • less ubiquitous than dropbox, which also offers public files

    • compare file contents

      • kaleidoscope (mac)
        Link: kaleidoscopeapp.com

        • education price
          Link: kaleidoscopeapp.com/support

        • scripting

          with a little bit of scripting/keyboardmaestro, can compare webpage text to yesterday's captured version e.g. set keyboardmaestro to capture the current text, then run

          !/bin/bash
          DATE_TODAY=$(date +"%Y%m%d")
          DATE_MINUS=$(date -v -1d +"%Y%m%d")
          FILE_CONTENT=$(pbpaste)
          echo "$FILE_CONTENT" >> /path/"$DATE_TODAY"filename.txt /usr/local/bin/ksdiff /path/"$DATE_MINUS"filename.txt /path/"$DATE_TODAY"filename.txt

      • kaleidoscope (ios)
        https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kaleidoscope-2/id1273771160?mt=8

  • archive

    • 1password
      Link: agilebits.com/onepassword

      • url scheme ophttps://site location
        onepassword://search/{{search term here}}

      • now subscription–only, not recommended

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• gender and posture are significant risk factors to musculoskeletal symptoms during touchscreen tablet computer use
  szu-ping lee et al. 2018
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1589/jpts.30.855

  • Overall prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms during tablet computer use was 67.9% with greater prevalence of neck symptoms (neck: 84.6%; shoulder/upper extremity: 65.4%). Significant risk factors associated with symptoms during use were: current musculoskeletal symptoms, gender, roles, and postural factors including: sitting without back support, sitting with device in lap, and lying on the side and on the back during tablet computer use. A multivariate analysis further showed that the odds for females to have symptoms were 2.059 times higher than males. [Conclusion] The findings revealed that female gender and other postural factors were significantly associated with musculoskeletal symptoms during the use of tablet computer. Among all postural factors, sitting without back support was identified as the most important risk factor for having musculoskeletal symptoms.

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• OCR scanning offline
  prizmo (ios)
  http://www.creaceed.com/iprizmo/about

  • i find it gives me better results than the other scanners i have tried because the visual representation of what it will use for the ocr process, i.e. it shows you what effect your chnages of contrast etc will make to the ocr input, helps me find a sweet spot during adjustment that seems to lead to more accurate ocr output
  • can invert colours to better process white text on dark background
  • prizmo go is newer version but many features subscription–only

• scanner pro

  • rescan image from kept original
    (original can be exported through workflow)

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  picsew (ios)
  https://itunes.apple.com

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  • web (ios)

    • icab mobile
      Link: itunes.apple.com/gb/app/icab-mobile-web-browser/id308111628

      • change browser agent to show desktop version of sites, swipe in from left upper edge to go back, in from
      • can resume downloads — much more useful for large/slow downloads compared to safari

    • safari

      • night reader mode
        for pages of text supported by the reader function, change the reader function settings (if reader option is available in location bar on the top left, then reader option settings is available in location bar on the top right) to use a dark colour for the text background

    • chrome

      • auto translate websites

    • website update checker
      Link: appsto.re/us/kF6Ihb.i

    • clozemaster
      Link: clozemaster.com

  • articles

    • feedly
      • rss so don't need to always actively search
    • pocket
      • better (dimmer) night mode that instapaper
    • instapaper
      • better font and paging options than pocket
    • if you want to copy text from a webpage and the iPhone interface will not let you select the text, try opening the page in safari reader mode or one off these article readers, then copying

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• create

  • image

    • paint effect

      • brushstroke
        Link: itunes.apple.com/gb/app/brushstroke/id824421012

      • waterlogue
        Link: itunes.apple.com/gb/app/waterlogue/id764925064

  • web (mac)

    • graphs

      • d3.js
        Link: d3js.org/

        14 free–mac is a great javascript library for plotting graphs. I use it to plot data from csv and tsv files.

        You need to run a webserver to serve your files. I use an alfred workflow to run a local webserver on my mac: (see 27 for a fuller explanation)

          cd /Users/hereismydatafolderthatiwishtoservelocally  
          python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 &  
        

        tend to view/print from firefox, as css3 transform: translate is better supported currently in firefox than safari or chrome.

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        • 21
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        • 24
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        • 26
    • preview/export markdown output
      • marked 2
        Link: marked2app.com/

  • file organisation

    • In Finder, sort by reverse modified date, so most–recently modified files/folders appear at the top. Prepend files with creation date. I use a Keyboard Maestro “hyper2” shortcut to produce YYYYMMDD.

  • video

    • moment
      Link: appsto.re/gb/bn1Rhb.i

      • save only last few seconds of video so can capture video without worrying about space remaining

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• stop ios from chiming when plugging in power
  switch to the camera app before plugging in (use top–right drag–down control centre is easiest)

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• Matthew Cassinelli:
  If you’re like me, you may have been on iOS for years before you learned that when you select text and want to navigate the copy & paste menu, you don’t have to tap the arrows to navigate – you can just swipe to the next page.

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• otterbox cases
  • very heavy, but robust
  • defender series screen protector is very reflective, but i decided to use it anyway
  • don’t have to worry about toddler breaking stuff
  • if buying online, make sure to use “Dispatched from and sold by Amazon”, as there are lots of fakes (otterbox site is too expensive, though only place for most recent releases)
  • ipad pro 12.9 2017
    • otterbox site
      otterbox.co.uk/en-gb/apple-ipad-pro-12.9—2nd-gen-/defender-series-case/77-55782.html

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• brydge keyboard and other helpful ios 11 tips
  https://www.macstories.net/ios/11-tips-for-working-on-the-ipad/

  • brydge ipad pro 10.5 rose gold

    designed in park city, ut.
    assembled in china.
    model: bry8004
    us patent 9069527
    eu rcd 2767715-0001
    rated 5.0v 450ma max.
    fcc id: 2adrg-bry801

    serial number 8004-bu183900070

• brydge have nice black friday sales
  £99 for 10.5 series II
  https://www.brydge.co.uk/

• iclever folding bluetooth 5.1 keyboards
  iclever.com purchase on amazon.com

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• compress objects, not cache lines:
  an object-based compressed memory hierarchy
  po-an tsai, daniel sanchez 2019

  people.csail.mit.edu/poantsai/papers/2019.zippads.asplos.pdf

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• archive unused

  • visual

    • tydlig (ios)
    • scale
      • the converted (ios)
        Link: ideon.co/theConverted

  • convert

    • pair

      • convertizo
        Link: perfectdimension.com/apps/convertizo

      • angstrom

    • multiple
      • amount
        Link: marcotorretta.com/#amount

  • ulysses
    Link: ulyssesapp.com/

    • beta
      Link: ulyssesapp.com/beta/

    • url scheme
      Link: ulyssesapp.com/kb/x-callback-url/

  • capture

    • tasks
      • taskmator (ios)
        • url scheme
          Link: macdrifter.com/2014/11/taskmator-update-now-with-url-scheme-support.html

  • email

    • process inbox

      i set the quick action to "archive" which moves the message to my "lena" folder (personal messages); and set quick move to the "keep" folder (non–personal messages)

      • dispatch (ios)
        Link: dispatchapp.net

        • url scheme
          Link: snip2code.com/Snippet/17016/-compose-URL-scheme-for-Dispatch-mail-ap

    • retrieve long–term

      • mailmate (mac)
        Link: freron.com/about/

  • trackpad/mouse gestures (mac)

    • bettertouchtool
      Link: boastr.de

      |
      ---: | :---
      cmd threefingerswipeup | maximise window
      cmd threefingerswipedown | move window to next monitor
      cmd threefingerswipeleft | maximise window left
      cmd threefingerswiperight | maximise window right
      cmd threefingerclickswipeup | maximise window tophalf
      cmd threefingerclickswipedown | maximise window bottomhalf
      safari–and-finder-specific |
      threefingerswipeleft | switch to next tab (ctrl–tab)
      threefingerswiperight | switch to previous tab (ctrl–shift–tab)
      finder-specific |
      twofingerswiperight | back (cmd-[ )
      twofingerswipeleft | forward (cmd-] )

  • editorial
    Link: omz-software.com/editorial/

    • folding of markdown is superb, also two–finger tap to select line/paragraph
      slow but steady release cycle (like many apps, not yet compatible with the new split–view or slide–over functions in ios)

    • wiki and bookmarks

      • wiki
        Link: editorial-workflows.com/workflow/5878939155169280/vj02mBmMGWI

        • use markdown reference links for a simple wiki; use “copy bookmark url” workflow to create the links

      • bookmarks set and called via url scheme

        • set
        • call

    • workflows
      Link: editorial-workflows.com/

      • workflow to reopen current cursor position and file at later time, using due app
        Link: editorial-workflows.com/workflow/4800560779755520/99-igc__hL0

      • various workflows
        Link: macdrifter.com/2015/06/some-general-purpose-editorial-workflows-and-suggestions.html

      • workflow installer workflow
        Link: robertvojta.com/2015/05/16/editorial-workflow-installer/

      • extendable in python

    • documentation
      Link: omz-software.com/editorial/docs/

      • url scheme including calling workflows
        Link: omz-software.com/editorial/docs/ios/urlscheme.html

  • drafts
    Link: agiletortoise.com/drafts

    • use web capture template

      Three things for Drafts 4 - All this:

      save the post into the source directory where all the Markdown files go. This directory is in Dropbox, and Drafts makes it easy to write an action that saves a file there.

    • case

      • title case
        Link: leancrew.com/all-this/2015/06/title-case-in-drafts/

    • url scheme
      Link: agiletortoise.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202771400-Drafts-URL-Schemes

    • action directory
      Link: drafts4-actions.agiletortoise.com/

      • clear current draft
        Link: drafts4-actions.agiletortoise.com/a/192

      • copy particular draft uuid to open url

        clipboard replace
        drafts4://x-callback-url/open?uuid=[[uuid]]

      • create scheduled task for 1100 tomorrow

        twodo://x-callback-url/add?task=[[title]]&type=0&due=1&start=0&duetime=11:00&action=url:{{drafts4://x-callback-url/open?uuid=[[uuid]]}}

    • javascript functions
      Link: agiletortoise.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202771590-Action-Step-Script

  • octopress
    Link: octopress.org

    • integrate with github for hosting pages

  • multimarkdown composer (mac)
    Link: multimarkdown.com/

  • programming

    • languages
      • swift course
        Link: swifteducation.github.io/teaching_app_development_with_swift/

  • copied

    • specifically copied clipper action when quoting text from books diring reading session, and copied in slideover mode for pasting in quotes via drag and drop to ithoughts in editing session

  • slack
    team communication
    Link: slack.com

    • url scheme
      Link: macstories.net/reviews/with-launcher-2-0-im-rethinking-my-notification-center-widgets/

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• Mac Wireless Diagnostics

  hold the Option key and click the Wi-Fi icon on the menu bar at the top of your screen. Select “Open Wireless Diagnostics.”

  Ignore the wizard that appears. Instead, click the Window menu and select Scan.

  The “Best 2.4 GHz Channels” and “Best 5 GHz” Channels” fields will recommend the ideal Wi-Fi channels you should be using on your router.

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• if your touch id breaks your iphone/ipad get it repaired by the apple shop or it will be toast :(
  Link: ifixit.com/Answers/View/204861/iTunes+Error+53+-+Please+help!

  • see error 53 on the internet

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• impact of mining for electronics

  • cobalt
    Link: amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/child-labour-behind-smart-phone-and-electric-car-batteries/

  • fairphone
    Link: fairphone.com/

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• deep-learning technique to convert a crude piezoresistive carbon nanotube-ecoflex composite sheet into a smart, portable, disposable, and extremely flexible keypad
  jin-woong lee et al. 2018
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b04914

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• not yet read

  • who can you trust?: how technology brought us together and why it might drive us apart
    rachel botsman 2017

  • big mind: how collective intelligence can change our world
    geoff mulgan 2017

  • shrinking the technosphere; getting a grip on technologies that limit our autonomy, self-sufficiency and freedom
    dmitry orlov 2016

  • fully connected: surviving and thriving in an age of overload
    julia hobsbawm 2017

  • the internet is not the answer
    andrew keen 2015

  • live work work work die: a journey into the savage heart of silicon valley
    corey pein 2018

  • mastering modern linux, second edition
    paul s. wang 2018

  • team human
    douglas rushkoff 2019

    • survival of the richest
      the wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
      douglas rushkoff 2020
      onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

  • the nature of technology: what it is and how it evolves
    w brian arthur 2009

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• not yet tried

  • typeforms
    Link: typeform.com/

    • interesting ruby interface, not sure about the data side

  • mathpix
    Link: mathpix.com/

    • handwritten equation solver with methods

  • ssd buying guide
    reddit.com/user/NewMaxx/comments/9yv0c6/ssd_buying_guide_wip/

  • unshaky keypress for malfunctioning keyboards
    unshaky.nestederror.com

  • liquidtext pdf excerpting

  • goodnotes

  • filebrowser business (barcode integration)
    stratospherix.com/products/comparison.php

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• apple notes create links to individual notes
  temochka.com/blog/posts/2020/02/22/linking-to-apple-notes.html

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• co2 emissions from air travel

• international civil aviation organization (icao)
  non–adjusted estimate: lgw — lax return 773kg co2/person
  https://www.icao.int

• greenhouse gas emissions per passenger kilometre
  averaged emissions
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/environmental_impact_of_aviation

• lipasto’s 2008 survey of average direct emissions (not accounting for high-altitude radiative effects) of airliners expressed as co2 and co2 equivalent per passenger kilometre:
  http://lipasto.vtt.fi/yksikkopaastot/henkiloliikennee/ilmaliikennee/ilmae.htm

  • domestic, short distance, less than 463 km (288 mi): 257 g/km co2 or 259 g/km (14.7 oz/mile) co2e
    domestic, long distance, greater than 463 km (288 mi): 177 g/km co2 or 178 g/km (10.1 oz/mile) co2e
    long distance flights: 113 g/km co2 or 114 g/km (6.5 oz/mile) co2e

• 80g co2 per 20g bag crisps (e.g. walkers) = 4kg co2/1kg crisps

• openflights.org airport data
  https://openflights.org/data.html

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• minimise battery usage

  • low power mode
    locks in 30 seconds

  • all location services off

  • wifi off unless 1100 or 1800

    on when updating ithoughts, along with bluetooth, making use of shared clipboard between devices

  • airplane mode on unless require available

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  javascript shortcuts

  • appwatcher - track apps and their in-app purchases - scriptable
    u/schl3ck
    https://www.reddit.com/r/scriptable/comments/a313vf/appwatcher_track_apps_and_their_inapp_purchases/

  • forum talk.automators.fm/c/scriptable

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  • call a shortcut using a url
    support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/shortcuts/apd624386f42/ios
    for example from an ithoughts map link

  • filesystem shortcuts using scriptable
    macstories.net/ios/fs-bookmarks-a-shortcut-to-reopen-files-and-folders-directly-in-the-files-app/

  • forum reddit.com/r/shortcuts

  • archive

    • shortcut inspector & shortcut reporter
      by u/joereally

      https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9ndqcy/shortcut_inspector_shortcut_reporter/

    • cut, copy & paste actions
      by u/schl3ck
      https://www.reddit.com/r/workflow/comments/8c8s1b/

    • ios sound explorer shortcut
      https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/25e00f1e521d46539a8d11a4509d2815

    • using a dictionary to spell out ancient greek words using dictation

      https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9qjocl/using_a_dictionary_to_spell_out_ancient_greek/

    • google translate v2.0 — now using the google translate api! a lot faster and much more reliable :)
      by u/brechtbakker

      https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9qs3tl/google_translate_v20_now_using_the_google/

    • upload screenshot to server with frame
      http://leancrew.com/all-this/2018/10/shortcuts-as-subroutines/

    • gallery
      https://sharecuts.app

    • run shortcuts from other apps
      i use this to show song lyrics and play the song
      url scheme (legacy: convert workflow to shortcuts)
      workflow.is/developer

      • (escaped characters, remove \ when using) shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=[name]&input=text&text=[text]
      • shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=giraffe_blues

    • u/joereally understanding dictionaries and lists
      understanding_dictionaries_and_lists

    • u/joereally using dictionaries and lists _using_dictionaries_and_lists/

    • u/joereally pretty print dictionary
      reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9mk9br/pretty_print_dictionary/

    • quick capture of student work to dropbox
      u/danwright32 2019
      Any other teachers here? I’ve found it’s hard to talk about student work with parents when I’ve given back the work and have no visuals to show them. I made this shortcut to take a picture of the work, name it with the student’s name, convert to PDF, and upload to Dropbox in the student’s folder.
      https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/ank42h/any_other_teachers_here_ive_found_its_hard_to/

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  • i use two main custom voice controls to simulate tapping the screen in two different positions for hands–free anki learning when i am washing the dishes

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  • launcher
    Link: itunes.apple.com/gb/app/launcher-notification-center/id905099592

    • can launch directly from notification center

      • launcher does not need to open the launcher app itself before running workflow, and so does not become the most–recently–used app

    • url scheme
      know the URL you want to launch, format is:

      launcher://r/?url=

      double curly braces will properly URL encode it for you.

      You can see what the URLs are that each launcher is launching by going into Options -> Global Settings and enabling "Show URL on launcher edit".

  • alfred (mac)
    launch apps and scripts via keyword search
    Link: alfredapp.com

    • forum
      Link: alfredforum.com/

    • keyboardmaestro from alfred
      Link: alfredforum.com/topic/3447-alfred-maestro-keyboard-maestro-integration-for-alfred/

    • copypath
      Link: lucatnt.com/2013/04/some-useful-alfred-2-workflows/

    • terminal to/from finder
      Link: alfredforum.com/topic/1664-open-current-finder-window-in-terminaliterm-and-vice-versa

    • archive

      • ios control app
        Link: itunes.apple.com/app/alfred-remote/id927944141

  • keyboard shortcuts (mac)

    basic mac shortcuts

    |
    ---: | :---
    cmd-a | select all
    cmd-c | copy
    cmd-v | paste
    cmd-tab | shift between current and last used application
    cmd-w | close current window
    cmd-q | close current application
    alt-right | move one word right
    alt-left | move one word left

    intermediate mac shortcuts

    |
    ---: | :---
    ctrl-a | beginning of line (or fn-left for home)
    ctrl-e | end of line (or fn-right for end)
    ctrl-d | forward delete
    ctrl-k | kill to end of line
    ctrl-y | yank the killed text back (separate from copy paste clipboard)
    ctrl-o | paragraph break but keep cursor is same place
    ctrl-t | transpose letters
    opt-delete | delete previous word
    ctrl-b | move back one letter
    ctrl-f | move forward one
    ctrl-n | move next line
    ctrl-p | move previous line
    cmd-` | to shift to between the current and next windows within the same application
    ctrl-cmd-shift-4 | select screen area to capture to image in clipboard (handy for pasting screenshots in an email)
    ctrl-shift-power | (on macbook air) lock screen, if require password immediately is set for after sleep or screen saver begins
    F1-F12 | in system preferences, keyboard; use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys (press the Fn key to use the special features printed on each key)
    tab | in system preferences, keyboard shortcuts; enable full keyboard access (tab can move keyboard focus in all controls)

    I like using a dvorak–layout keyboard as I touch–type; this can be set in system preferences — keyboard

    • brett terpstra’s karabiner hyper key instructions
      brettterpstra.com/2017/06/15/a-hyper-key-with-karabiner-elements-full-instructions/

    • I use f19 instead of escape compared to Brett’s setup for single-press caps lock, and set Alfred to launch from f19

    • brett’s hyper key vim-style navigation with karabiner elements
      https://brettterpstra.com/2017/07/26/hyper-key-vim-navigation-with-karabiner-elements/

    • auothotkey hyper key (windows)
      stackoverflow.com/questions/40435980/how-to-emulate-hyper-key-in-windows-10-using-autohotkey#40559502

    • archive

      advanced mac rebinding

      This technique creates three special keys on your mac keyboard. Initially people might start with just one special key, hyper, and later add others.

      |
      ---: | :--- | :---
      tab | tap | normal tab
      tab | hold | hyper (shift–ctrl–alt–cmd) — less often used
      caps lock | tap | access alfred
      caps lock | hold | hyper2 (shift–ctrl–cmd) — most often used as it is in the home row
      left shift | tap | access alfred snippets
      left shift | hold | normal shift

      Alfred and keyboardmaestro can be used easily without this, but rebinding three "helper" keys speeds access to shortcuts, applications, macros etc. Caps lock is taken over entirely, while tab and left shift retain their normal usage but are also given an additional property.

      Keyboardmaestro is application–aware enough to know when you invoke it within applications, and has options to set shortcuts this way. Thus we can use two discrete levels of shortcuts: one general level, which is the same when activated from any application (hyper2+key), and a second application–specific level, which is unique to each application or set of applications (hyper+key).

      You could also separate the usage of hyper2, for example, by combination of letters and numbers — combine hyper2 with letters for applications etc., combine hyper2 with numbers for specific files.

      Here we also use Alfred as a shortcut "menu" for those shortcuts which we don't want to commit to memory as a hyper2+shortcut; that is, we activate alfred using caps lock (tap), the type a few letters (e.g. for screen saver, activate alfred, type scr).

      Oddly enough, hyper+w, hyper+v, hyper+z, hyper+x do not work on my dvorak keyboard layout, because a dvorak v = . and w = , and z = / and these combinations are reserved for sysdiagnose and stackshot (programmer utilities within the operating system)

      An additional bonus of this method is that your hands can stay on the "home row" more, and your left little finger gets more of a workout!

      • system preferences keyboard — modifier keys — caps lock key: no action
      • 92 free–mac setting — caps lock — change caps lock to 80 (F19) — future options would be cmd_r or opt_r to F18 etc . NB remember to change caps lock configuration in system to "no action" as per 97
      • 93 free–mac goto tab misc&uninstall, select open private.xml, paste the following code (based on 94 and 98); if you already have other modifications there, just paste the "items". The syntax appears to be: (1) key to modify (2) when held, send this (3) when tapped, send this.

      here's the code

        <?xml version="1.0"?>  
        <root>  
            <item>  
                <name>F19 to F19</name>  
                <appendix>(F19 hold to Hyper2 (ctrl+shift+cmd) + F19 Only, send F19)</appendix>  
                <identifier>private.f192f19_cmdshiftctrl</identifier>  
                <autogen>  
                    --KeyOverlaidModifier--  
                    KeyCode::F19,  
                    KeyCode::COMMAND_L,  
                    ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L,  
                    KeyCode::F19,  
                </autogen>  
            </item>  
            <item>  
                <name>Shift_L to Shift_L</name>  
                <appendix>(Shift_L hold to Shift_L + Shift_L Only, send F18)</appendix>  
                <identifier>private.shiftl2shiftl_f18</identifier>  
                <autogen>  
                    --KeyOverlaidModifier--  
                    KeyCode::SHIFT_L,  
                    KeyCode::SHIFT_L,  
                    KeyCode::F18,  
                </autogen>  
            </item>  
            <item>  
                <name>Tab to Tab</name>  
                <appendix>(Tab tap to Tab + Tab hold send Hyper (ctrl+shift+cmd+opt))</appendix>  
                <identifier>private.tab2tab_cmdoptshiftctrl</identifier>  
                <autogen>  
                    --KeyOverlaidModifier--  
                    KeyCode::TAB,  
                    KeyCode::COMMAND_L,  
                    ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L |   
                    ModifierFlag::OPTION_L | ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L,  
                    KeyCode::TAB,  
                </autogen>  
            </item>  
        </root>  
      

      • go back to change key tab, select reload xml; the options above should now appear at the top of the menu

      • enable the options

      • you can use misc&uninstall launch eventviewer to see if your new options are working

      • restart the computer to finish enabling the keys (you'll want to be able to bring alfred up e.g. with cmd-space later)

      • set alfred to activate on F19, alfred features/clipboard/viewer hotkey to F18

      • can use same method to allocate "keytap only" to fn, leftshift, leftctrl, leftalt, leftcmd, rightcmd, rightalt or most other keys

      • If you'd like to read some more about this idea, read 94, 95, 96, 93, 92.

      • karabiner
        Link: pqrs.org/osx/karabiner

      • seil
        Link: pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/seil.html

  • keyboardmaestro (mac)
    launch apps and scripts via key combination
    Link: keyboardmaestro.com

    • ios control app
      Link: itunes.apple.com/us/app/keyboard-maestro-control/id298045982

    • forum
      Link: forum.keyboardmaestro.com/

    • excel paste value
      Link: dropbox.com/s/9tujfg45kgys2vu/20130405excelpastespecial.kmmacros

    • edit text in any app, paste to previous app

      • gabe’s version
        Link: macdrifter.com/2011/11/keyboard-maestro-variables-remember-current-application.html

      • tj’s for bbedit
        Link: github.com/tjluoma/edit-anywhere

      • drang’s for bbedit
        Link: leancrew.com/all-this/2015/08/my-quickcursor-replacement/

    • cancel running macro
      ctrl–opt–cmd–c

  • hook by luc beaudoin, untried
    hookproductivity.com

  • window manager apps
    css-tricks.com/os-x-window-manager-apps/

    • forums.macrumors.com/threads/preferred-window-snap-tool-app.2042312/

  • spectacle window manager app works in mojave spectacleapp.com

    • spectacle shortcuts github.com/eczarny/spectacle#keyboard-shortcuts

  • archive

    • create workflows
      • ios via url scheme

        • reuse links and actions to apps e.g. to specific mindmap, document, list, action

          • for advanced options e. g. setting swipes on screen/icons to call links, see jailbreak section

        • currently find easiest to keep reference list in a ithoughts document, assign necessary ones via activator (jailbroken) or assistant+

        • workflow
          Link: workflow.is/

          • call workflows via url scheme
            can launch from notification center

            • url scheme
              Link: workflow.is/developer

            • workflows must open in the workflow app itself as they run — and workflow app thus becomes the most–recently–used app

          • forum
            Link: reddit.com/r/workflow/

            • workflow to create custom list in notification center — I use a tweaked version of this instead of the action extensions
              Link: reddit.com/r/workflow/comments/49u4ds/workflow_today_widget_workflow_launcher_aka_space/

            • screenshots within device frame
              Link: jordanmerrick.com/posts/screenshot-builder-workflow

            • append to clipboard
              Link: macstories.net/ios/workflow-tip-append-text-to-the-ios-clipboard/

            • I use a workflow and url scheme to launch specific music tracks from links in ithoughts

          • workflows

            • songsearch
              normal
              use via url scheme

              • set variable titlefrominput
              • nothing
              • find music where titlefrominput
              • play music
              • wait 1 second
              • url
                • activator://send/jp.ashikase.lastapp
              • open urls

            • train

              • url
                • http://maps.apple.com/?saddr=blah+stationdr=blah+station&dirflg=r
              • open urls

            • battery
              today widget

              • get battery level
              • show notification

            • lowercase
              action extension

              • change case
              • copy to clipboard

        • texttool
          Link: blackfoginteractive.com/TextTool/Callbacks

          • url scheme
            Link: blackfoginteractive.com/TextTool/Callbacks

        • editorial
          Link: omz-software.com/editorial/

          • call workflows via url scheme

            • url scheme
              Link: omz-software.com/editorial/docs/ios/urlscheme.html

          • can use python in workflows

        • launch center pro
          Link: contrast.co/launch-center-pro/

          • editorial workflow creator for calling lcp actions (via action id) via url scheme
            Link: editorial-workflows.com/workflow/5808957562028032/OP2al8GDia4

            url has form
            launch://?url=[action:41]
            where 41 represents the lcp action id

          • can launch from notification center

    • reclaim space

      • “renting” a large movie from itunes (that is larger than the space you have available) and then accepting the request to go to settings when the insufficient space warning appears prompts an automatic cache clear out
        Link: reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/462isr/get_some_storage_back_by_trying_to_download_a/

        • note some apps keep needed files in their cache, like hyphen, which keeps epubs in there for some reason, and they are cleared out by this procedure — note ithoughts is affected too, possibly only for icloud files — if you use ithoughts in a non–standard way, like I do with airplane mode mostly on, you might lose data if it does delete unsynced files
        • this process seems to work using the US itunes store but not if using the UK store
    • screen (mac)

      • different colours at night

        • f.lux
          Link: justgetflux.com/

      • hide menubar icons

        • bartender
          Link: macbartender.com

      • internal screen rotation

        • hold down command and option keys while selecting display preferences in system preferences; you must close system prefs first

01543

• program in python (and use scripts in a handy systemwide keyboard)

• pythonista (ios)
  http://www.omz-software.de/pythonista

• the pythonista keyboard is especially useful as we can run multiple scripts without the overhead of going via the share sheet each time as we would have to do using ios shortcuts

• there is currently a bug in the beta where too many characters, too many divs, or too many exclamation marks knocks the text processing for a loop

  • if there are several <div> in the document i usually select all, then deselect the last two divs and do those separately, this seems to work 90% for my usage case as of 20190415

• The editorial theme works best for greyscale display for my current usage case as it allows some contrast for the different code even in grayscale

• pythonista keyboard (pythonista beta version only)

  • superscript numbers script 201901061700
    for use in anki html edit view only (does not work in normal view)

    nb: right–click and download this file rather than opening it in browser as the utf8 text does not seem to transfer properly otherwise
    makiaea.org/20190113115926regexversionnonspace.py

  • supplementary remove space script 201901061701
    for removing spaces in special html fields in anki

    nb: right–click and download this file rather than opening it in browser as the utf8 text does not seem to transfer properly otherwise
    makiaea.org/20190113115926regexversion.py

  • cantodict lookup script via cantodict url scheme

    nb: right–click and download this file rather than opening it in browser as the utf8 text does not seem to transfer properly otherwise
    makiaea.org/20190108cantodictsearch.py

  • ios anki v2.0.47 workaround 20190505181043

    this adapts 201901061700 above to produce html entities such as &rsquo; (right single quote) instead of utf–8, to deal with the new anki automatically converting our data. note, it only works in anki html edit mode fields, and our data is still overwritten every time anki is used in the non–html edit mode for a card (there may be even more places where automatic conversion occurs that we are not aware of)

    nb: right–click and download this file rather than opening it in browser as the utf8 text does not seem to transfer properly otherwise
    makiaea.org/20190505181043regexversionnonspace.py

  • weirdly, sometimes even the emoji setting for the keyboard defaults to qwerty when we are using an external emulated dvorak keyboard (but sometimes it work as intended — if switch back to stock onscreen keyboard, the external hardware setting for dvorak keyboard is always respected

  • using pythonista keyboard with anki on ios 13 beta https://youtu.be/WQe9kjJkK8I

• to get a shell, ping and wol in pythonista, install stash github.com/ywangd/stash

• pythonista wol
  talk.automators.fm/t/wake-on-lan-wol-support/2403

• not tried yet

  • importing utf files
    • @cvp # iconv -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8 data.csv > conv_data.csv
    • forum.omz-software.com/topic/5638/pythonista-ios-shortcuts-utf-16le-oh-my
    • import shutil
      with open(“data.csv”, mode=“r”, encoding=“utf-16-le”) as inp:
      f = fil.read()
      with open(“conv_data.csv”, mode=“w”, encoding=“utf-8”) as out:
      fil.write(f)
      shutil.copyfileobj(inp, out)

01443

• kodex
  kodex.app/#features-href

  • multicaret editor on ios

01343

• clipboard

  • yoink
    has “stacks” i.e. folders
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yoink-improved-drag-and-drop/id1260915283?mt=8

  • gladys
    no folders
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gladys/id1257526927?mt=8

01243

• search
  • search end of one word, space, and beginning of next word. vary with punctuation if required. suitable for narrowing down search.
  • computer searching can produce many results. some interesting ways of narrowing down the results are: searching by end of word plus space plus beginning of word or by using punctuation in place of the space. useful when you can remember a specific conjunction of words in the passage. e.g. to search for this paragraph, search for "ord plu" or "fic con". searching is currently based on the principle of similarity being useful. remember this may not be true in real or future circumstances.

01143

• learn
  • markdown

    • why markdown?
      Link: brettterpstra.com/2011/08/31/why-markdown-a-two-minute-explanation/

    • tables

      example multimarkdown table: NB the complete specification of the beginnings and ends of lines, this maintains compatibility with both multimarkdown and pandoc

         ||||  
         |:---|:---|:---|  
         |ᾄδειν | ᾖσε | ᾠδή|  
         |Ἄιδειν | Ἦισε | Ὠιδή|  
      

      and this is the resulting table:

      ||||
      |:---|:---|:---|
      |ᾄδειν | ᾖσε | ᾠδή|
      |Ἄιδειν | Ἦισε | Ὠιδή|

      michel's guide to php-markdown/multimarkdown 139

    • multimarkdown
      Link: github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown/wiki/MultiMarkdown-Syntax-Guide

01043

• most used processing workflow

• to gather selected text from a webpage, say, use the 1writer share extension (top line of the share sheet — move it to top spot!)

  then you can later process it further in 1writer and send it on to other apps

  i find myself using the “clip to ithoughts” share extension most, as this can send to a single specified file instead of opening separate documents. then for the title, author and link categories i will cut these to the clipboard and paste into an empty 1writer document, to process using the javascript actions, and then use a javascript action to send it back to ithoughts for spatial rearrangement with the description and abstract, say, for a scientific paper, before finally cutting to clipboard and pasting into an appropriate ithoughts file within the retrieval system.

  • ways of using and manipulating text
    to get the selected text from an app directly and use it in shortcuts app via the share sheet, use

    get text from input
    set variable (give it a name)

    url as follows:

      omnifocus://x-callback-url/add?name=namedTask&note=selected text&autosave=true&x-success=[source-app]:///  
    

    open url

    or, alternatively, use the clipboard to copy the text you want (you can do this in javascript in 1writer) and send, in one tap of a javascript action by calling the shortcut from 1writer using javascript

      app.openURL(‘shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=thisisthenameoftheshortcut’);  
    

    note you’ll need the copy to clipboard parts earlier in the script and the shortcut that you call needs to get the clipboard to use it

00943

• search can only find things that it know exists
• for example, ithoughts is not built to search through massive amounts of data (as the creator did not envision this as a use case) so it intentionally limits search results to the first x number — if you didn’t know this, you would assume that all results were found and displayed to you. this is not a defect in ithoughts, it is a general deficiency of search processes. when we rely too much on one method of finding data, we are vulnerable to the effects of that method not working properly
• don’t rely on search: using a similar 00100 folder structure to “scroll shield spear” to hold data files in numbered directories in icloud
  • since at the moment we still need to store files and retrieve them, this method is working for me as i keep notes in ithoughts and files in similarly named folders in icloud
  • for files to be read, e.g. unread books, using “_” underscore notation at beginning of filename
  • files also referenced in 00100 sss structure in ithoughts, keeps track of the files themselves in categories and also their notes in a logical place

00843

00743

• new dark age: technology and the end of the future
  james bridle 2018

• brain drain: the mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity
  adrian f. ward et al. 2020
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/691462

  • ith nearly 800 smartphone users in an attempt to measure, for the first time, how well people can complete tasks when they have their smartphones nearby even when they’re not using them.
    In one experiment, the researchers asked study participants to sit at a computer and take a series of tests that required full concentration in order to score well. The tests were geared to measure participants’ available cognitive capacity — that is, the brain’s ability to hold and process data at any given time. Before beginning, participants were randomly instructed to place their smartphones either on the desk face down, in their pocket or personal bag, or in another room. All participants were instructed to turn their phones to silent.
    The researchers found that participants with their phones in another room significantly outperformed those with their phones on the desk, and they also slightly outperformed those participants who had kept their phones in a pocket or bag.
    The findings suggest that the mere presence of one’s smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity and impairs cognitive functioning, even though people feel they’re giving their full attention and focus to the task at hand. “We see a linear trend that suggests that as the smartphone becomes more noticeable, participants’ available cognitive capacity decreases,” Ward said. “Your conscious mind isn’t thinking about your smartphone, but that process — the process of requiring yourself to not think about something — uses up some of your limited cognitive resources. It’s a brain drain.”
    In another experiment, researchers looked at how a person’s self-reported smartphone dependence — or how strongly a person feels he or she needs to have a smartphone in order to get through a typical day — affected cognitive capacity. Participants performed the same series of computer-based tests as the first group and were randomly assigned to keep their smartphones either in sight on the desk face up, in a pocket or bag, or in another room. In this experiment, some participants were also instructed to turn off their phones.
    The researchers found that participants who were the most dependent on their smartphones performed worse compared with their less-dependent peers, but only when they kept their smartphones on the desk or in their pocket or bag.
    Ward and his colleagues also found that it didn’t matter whether a person’s smartphone was turned on or off, or whether it was lying face up or face down on a desk. Having a smartphone within sight or within easy reach reduces a person’s ability to focus and perform tasks because part of their brain is actively working to not pick up or use the phone.
    “It’s not that participants were distracted because they were getting notifications on their phones,” said Ward. “The mere presence of their smartphone was enough to reduce their cognitive capacity.”

  • abstract Our smartphones enable—and encourage—constant connection to information, entertainment, and each other. They put the world at our fingertips, and rarely leave our sides. Although these devices have immense potential to improve welfare, their persistent presence may come at a cognitive cost. In this research, we test the “brain drain” hypothesis that the mere presence of one’s own smartphone may occupy limited-capacity cognitive resources, thereby leaving fewer resources available for other tasks and undercutting cognitive performance. Results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention—as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones—the mere presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capacity. Moreover, these cognitive costs are highest for those highest in smartphone dependence. We conclude by discussing the practical implications of this smartphone-induced brain drain for consumer decision-making and consumer welfare.

• the digital maginot line
  renee diresta 2018
  https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/

• why doctors hate their computers
  atul gawande 2018
  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers/

  • Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient; instead, doctors (and many others) feel trapped behind their screens.

• ’our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
  paul lewis 2018
  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

  • bored and brilliant - how time spent doing nothing changes everything
    manoush zomorodi 2017 to read next

• towards matching user mobility traces in large-scale datasets
  daniel kondor et al. 2018
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tbdata.2018.2871693

  • Companies, researchers, and other entities are beginning to collect, store, and process anonymized data that contains "location stamps" (geographical coordinates and time stamps) of users. Data can be grabbed from mobile phone records, credit card transactions, public transportation smart cards, Twitter accounts, and mobile apps. Merging those datasets could provide rich information about how humans travel, for instance, to optimize transportation and urban planning, among other things.

    But with big data come big privacy issues: Location stamps are extremely specific to individuals and can be used for nefarious purposes. Recent research has shown that, given only a few randomly selected points in mobility datasets, someone could identify and learn sensitive information about individuals. With merged mobility datasets, this becomes even easier: An agent could potentially match users trajectories in anonymized data from one dataset, with deanonymized data in another, to unmask the anonymized data.

    In a paper published today in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, the MIT researchers show how this can happen in the first-ever analysis of so-called user "matchability" in two large-scale datasets from Singapore, one from a mobile network operator and one from a local transportation system.

    The researchers use a statistical model that tracks location stamps of users in both datasets and provides a probability that data points in both sets come from the same person. In experiments, the researchers found the model could match around 17 percent of individuals in one week's worth of data, and more than 55 percent of individuals after one month of collected data. The work demonstrates an efficient, scalable way to match mobility trajectories in datasets, which can be a boon for research. But, the researchers warn, such processes can increase the possibility of deanonymizing real user data.

    "As researchers, we believe that working with large-scale datasets can allow discovering unprecedented insights about human society and mobility, allowing us to plan cities better. Nevertheless, it is important to show if identification is possible, so people can be aware of potential risks of sharing mobility data," says Daniel Kondor, a postdoc in the Future Urban Mobility Group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.

    "In publishing the results -- and, in particular, the consequences of deanonymizing data -- we felt a bit like 'white hat' or 'ethical' hackers," adds co-author Carlo Ratti, a professor of the practice in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and director of MIT's Senseable City Lab. "We felt that it was important to warn people about these new possibilities [of data merging] and [to consider] how we might regulate it."

    Eliminating false positives

    To understand how matching location stamps and potential deanonymization works, consider this scenario: "I was at Sentosa Island in Singapore two days ago, came to the Dubai airport yesterday, and am on Jumeirah Beach in Dubai today. It's highly unlikely another person's trajectory looks exactly the same. In short, if someone has my anonymized credit card information, and perhaps my open location data from Twitter, they could then deanonymize my credit card data," Ratti says.

    Similar models exist to evaluate deanonymization in data. But those use computationally intensive approaches for re-identification, meaning to merge anonymous data with public data to identify specific individuals. These models have only worked on limited datasets. The MIT researchers instead used a simpler statistical approach -- measuring the probability of false positives -- to efficiently predict matchability among scores of users in massive datasets.

    In their work, the researchers compiled two anonymized "low-density" datasets -- a few records per day -- about mobile phone use and personal transportation in Singapore, recorded over one week in 2011. The mobile data came from a large mobile network operator and comprised timestamps and geographic coordinates in more than 485 million records from over 2 million users. The transportation data contained over 70 million records with timestamps for individuals moving through the city.

    The probability that a given user has records in both datasets will increase along with the size of the merged datasets, but so will the probability of false positives. The researchers' model selects a user from one dataset and finds a user from the other dataset with a high number of matching location stamps. Simply put, as the number of matching points increases, the probability of a false-positive match decreases. After matching a certain number of points along a trajectory, the model rules out the possibility of the match being a false positive.

    Focusing on typical users, they estimated a matchability success rate of 17 percent over a week of compiled data, and about 55 percent for four weeks. That estimate jumps to about 95 percent with data compiled over 11 weeks.

    The researchers also estimated how much activity is needed to match most users over a week. Looking at users with between 30 and 49 personal transportation records, and around 1,000 mobile records, they estimated more than 90 percent success with a week of compiled data. Additionally, by combining the two datasets with GPS traces -- regularly collected actively and passively by smartphone apps -- the researchers estimated they could match 95 percent of individual trajectories, using less than one week of data.

    Better privacy

    With their study, the researchers hope to increase public awareness and promote tighter regulations for sharing consumer data. "All data with location stamps (which is most of today's collected data) is potentially very sensitive and we should all make more informed decisions on who we share it with," Ratti says. "We need to keep thinking about the challenges in processing large-scale data, about individuals, and the right way to provide adequate guarantees to preserve privacy."

    To that end, Ratti, Kondor, and other researchers have been working extensively on the ethical and moral issues of big data. In 2013, the Senseable City Lab at MIT launched an initiative called "Engaging Data," which involves leaders from government, privacy rights groups, academia, and business, who study how mobility data can and should be used by today's data-collecting firms.

    "The world today is awash with big data," Kondor says. "In 2015, mankind produced as much information as was created in all previous years of human civilization. Although data means a better knowledge of the urban environment, currently much of this wealth of information is held by just a few companies and public institutions that know a lot about us, while we know so little about them. We need to take care to avoid data monopolies and misuse."

  • abstract The problem of unicity and reidentifiability of records in large-scale databases has been studied in different contexts and approaches, with focus on preserving privacy or matching records from different data sources. With an increasing number of service providers nowadays routinely collecting location traces of their users on unprecedented scales, there is a pronounced interest in the possibility of matching records and datasets based on spatial trajectories. Extending previous work on reidentifiability of spatial data and trajectory matching, we present the first large-scale analysis of user matchability in real mobility datasets on realistic scales, i.e. among two datasets that consist of several million people's mobility traces, coming from a mobile network operator and transportation smart card usage. We extract the relevant statistical properties which influence the matching process and analyze their impact on the matchability of users. We show that for individuals with typical activity in the transportation system (those making 3-4 trips per day on average), a matching algorithm based on the co-occurrence of their activities is expected to achieve a 16.8% success only after a one-week long observation of their mobility traces, and over 55% after four weeks. We show that the main determinant of matchability is the expected number of co-occurring records in the two datasets. Finally, we discuss different scenarios in terms of data collection frequency and give estimates of matchability over time. We show that with higher frequency data collection becoming more common, we can expect much higher success rates in even shorter intervals.

• this is your president speaking: spoofing alerts in 4g lte networks
  gyuhong lee et al. 2019
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3307334.3326082

  • back door through which hackers might mimic those alerts, blasting fake messages to people in a confined area, such as a sports arena or a dense city block.

    The researchers, who have already reported their results to U.S. government officials, say that the goal of their study is to work with relevant authorities to prevent such an attack in the future.

    "We think this is something the public should be aware of to encourage cell carriers and standards bodies to correct this problem," said Eric Wustrow, a co-author of the study and an assistant professor in ECEE. "In the meantime, people should probably still trust the emergency alerts they see on their phones."

    The researchers reported their results at the 2019 International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys) in Seoul, South Korea, where their study won the award for "best paper."

    Wustrow said that he and colleagues Sangtae Ha and Dirk Grunwald decided to pursue the project, in part, because of a real-life event.

    In January 2018, months before the first presidential alert test went out, millions of Hawaiians received a similar, but seemingly genuine, message on their phones: someone had launched a ballistic missile attack on the state.

    It was, of course, a mistake, but that event made the CU Boulder team wonder: How secure are such emergency alerts?

    The answer, at least for presidentially-authorized alerts, hinges on where you look.

    "Sending the emergency alert from the government to the cell towers is reasonably secure," said co-author Sangtae Ha, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science. "But there are huge vulnerabilities between the cell tower and the users."

    Ha explained that because the government wants presidential alerts to reach as many cell phones as possible, it takes a broad approach to broadcasting these alerts -- sending messages through a distinct channel to every device in range of a cell tower.

    He and his colleagues discovered that hackers could exploit that loophole by creating their own, black market cell towers. First, the team, working in a secured lab, developed software that could mimic the format of a presidential alert.

    "We only need to broadcast that message into the right channel, and the smartphone will pick it up and display it," Ha said.

    And, he said, the team found that such messages could be sent out using commercially-available wireless transmitters with a high success rate -- or roughly hitting 90 percent of phones in an area the size of CU Boulder's Folsom Field, potentially sending malicious warnings to tens of thousands of people.

    It's a potentially major threat to public safety, said Grunwald, a professor in computer science.

  • abstract Modern cell phones are required to receive and display alerts via the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) program, under the mandate of the Warning, Alert, and Response Act of 2006. These alerts include AMBER alerts, severe weather alerts, and (unblockable) Presidential Alerts, intended to inform the public of imminent threats. Recently, a test Presidential Alert was sent to all capable phones in the United States, prompting concerns about how the underlying WEA protocol could be misused or attacked. In this paper, we investigate the details of this system, and develop and demonstrate the first practical spoofing attack on Presidential Alerts, using both commercially available hardware as well as modified open source software. Our attack can be performed using a commercially-available software defined radio, and our modifications to the open source NextEPC and srsLTE software libraries. We find that with only four malicious portable base stations of a single Watt of transmit power each, almost all of a 50,000-seat stadium can be attacked with a 90% success rate. The true impact of such an attack would of course depend on the density of cell phones in range; fake alerts in crowded cities or stadiums could potentially result in cascades of panic. Fixing this problem will require a large collaborative effort between carriers, government stakeholders, and cell phone manufacturers. To seed this effort, we also discuss several defenses to address this threat in both the short and long term.

• metamorphic robustness testing: exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors
  zhi quan zhou et al. 2019
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tse.2019.2915065

  • Scopus and Web of Science are the two leading citation indexing systems. Scopus provides the citation statistics to support the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. Web of Science provides the journal impact factor that supports the ranking of major journals. Because of the importance of these two indexing systems, it is essential to assure their quality. In particular, robustness testing refers to the verification of the systems’ ability to deal with erroneous inputs or unexpected situations. For example, can the indexing system handle a citation properly if there is a minor typo when quoting the paper title?
    Professor Tse and team members proposed an innovative method named “metamorphic robustness testing” to verify Scopus and Web of Science. The in-depth study uncovered robustness defects in both systems that might produce erroneous citation counts for papers with hyphens in the titles, so that the journal impact factors subsequently computed are problematic.
    Back in 2015, Letchford and colleagues conducted a large-scale study on Scopus, and found that papers with shorter titles tended to be cited more than those with longer titles.
    On the contrary, Professor Tse and the present team find that it is actually the number of hyphens in the title that serves as the more dominating factor for citation counts. Usually, the number of hyphens is correlated to a paper’s title length, thus giving the misinterpretation that citation counts depend on title length.

    Citation practices vary across subject areas. Publications in certain fields may have systematically higher citation counts than in other fields. For example, one may argue that papers in chemistry (where paper titles often carry hyphens as part of the chemical nomenclature) only receive relatively limited numbers of citations, giving rise to a spurious negative correlation between hyphens and citations. Hence, the team carried out focused studies on journals in specific subject areas. The results indicated that hyphens adversely affect the citation counts of papers even if the study is only limited to some particular discipline.
    To build on the findings at the article and discipline levels, the team investigated the impact of hyphens in paper titles at the journal level. Journal impact factor (JIF) is a common metric for determining the citation frequency of an academic journal. It is frequently used to represent the relative importance of a journal within its field. A software engineering field-wide study reveals that the higher JIF-ranked journals are publishing a lower percentage of papers with hyphenated titles.
    The team further conducted an analysis of the validity of the research to avoid falling into the trap of equating correlation with causation.
    “Our results question the common belief by the academia, governments, and funding bodies that citation counts are a reliable measure of the contributions and significance of papers. In fact, they can be distorted simply by the presence of hyphens in article titles, which has no bearing on the quality of research. Similarly, our results also challenge the validity of journal impact factors,” said Professor Tse.
    “These surprising results are of interest not only to professors seeking tenure or promotion, but also to senior management such as presidents, deans, and heads. They are applicable to all faculties in any university,” he added.

  • abstract We propose a robustness testing approach for software systems that process large amounts of data. Our method uses metamorphic relations to check software output for erroneous input in the absence of a tangible test oracle. We use this technique to test two major citation database systems: Scopus and the Web of Science. We report a surprising finding that the inclusion of hyphens in paper titles impedes citation counts, and that this is a result of the lack of robustness of the citation database systems in handling hyphenated paper titles. Our results are valid for the entire literature as well as for individual fields such as chemistry. We further find a strong and significant negative correlation between the journal impact factor (JIF) of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) and the percentage of hyphenated paper titles published in TSE. Similar results are found for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. A software engineering field-wide study reveals that the higher JIF-ranked journals are publishing a lower percentage of papers with hyphenated titles. Our results challenge the common belief that citation counts and JIFs are reliable measures of the impact of papers and journals, as they can be distorted simply by the presence of hyphens in paper titles.

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• minimise distraction

  • media multitasking is associated with altered processing of incidental, irrelevant cues during person perception
    richard b. lopez et al. 2018
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0256-x

    • Media multitasking (MMT)—using and switching between unrelated forms of media—has been implicated in altered processing of extraneous stimuli, resulting in performance deficits. Here, we sought to extend our prior work to test the hypothesis that MMT might be associated with enhanced processing of incidental environmental cues during person perception.
      Method
      We tested the relationship between individual differences in MMT and person perception, by experimentally manipulating the relevance of environmental cues that participants could use to make trait and personality judgements of an unfamiliar social target. Relevant environmental cues consisted of neat or messy arrangements of the target’s belongings, whereas irrelevant cues consisted of similarly neat or messy arrangements of the testing room in which participants viewed a video of the target.
      Results
      In general, relevant cues affected ratings of the target’s conscientiousness. Additionally, and consistent with our hypothesis, there was a significant interaction between irrelevant cue condition and MMT, such that high media multitaskers more readily incorporated irrelevant environmental cues into their evaluations of the target’s conscientiousness.
      Conclusions
      These results suggest that high media multitaskers are more responsive to irrelevant environmental cues, which in turn can lead them to form inaccurate impressions of others.

  • associations between 24 hour movement behaviours and global cognition in us children: a cross-sectional observational study
    jeremy j walsh et al. 2018
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30278-5

    • Background
      Childhood and adolescence are crucial periods for brain development, and the behaviours during a typical 24 h period contribute to cognitive performance. The Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth recommend at least 60 min physical activity per day, 2 h or less recreational screen time per day, and 9–11 h sleep per night in children aged 8–11 years. We investigated the relationship between adherence to these recommendations and global cognition.
      Methods
      In this cross-sectional observational study, we obtained data from the first annual curated release of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, a 10-year longitudinal, observational study. Data were collected from 21 study sites across the USA between Sept 1, 2016, and Sept 15, 2017. The participants were 4524 US children aged 8–11 years from 20 study sites. Exposures of interest were adherence to the physical activity, recreational screen time, and sleep duration guideline recommendations. The primary outcome was global cognition, assessed with the NIH Toolbox (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA), which we analysed with multivariable linear mixed-effects models to examine the relations with movement behaviour variables.
      Findings
      Complete movement behaviour data were available for 4520 participants. The mean number of guideline recommendations met was 1·1 (SD 0·9). Overall, 2303 (51%) participants met the sleep recommendation, 1655 (37%) met screen time, and 793 (18%) met the physical activity recommendation. 3190 (71%) participants met at least one recommendation, whereas 216 (5%) of participants met all three recommendations. Global cognition was positively associated with each additional recommendation met (β=1·44, 95% CI 0·82–2·07, p<0·0001). Compared with meeting none of the recommendations, associations with superior global cognition were found in participants who met all three recommendations (β=3·89, 95% CI 1·43 to 6·34, p=0·0019), the screen time recommendation only (β=4·25, 2·50–6·01, p<0·0001), and both the screen time and the sleep recommendations (β=5·15, 3·56–6·74, p<0·0001).
      Interpretation
      Meeting the 24 h movement recommendations was associated with superior global cognition. These findings highlight the importance of limiting recreational screen time and encouraging healthy sleep to improve cognition in children

  • no more fomo: limiting social media decreases loneliness and depression
    melissa g. hunt et al. 2018
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751

    • Introduction: Given the breadth of correlational research linking social media use to worse well-being, we undertook an experimental study to investigate the potential causal role that social media plays in this relationship. Method: After a week of baseline monitoring, 143 undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania were randomly assigned to either limit Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat use to 10 minutes, per platform, per day, or to use social media as usual for three weeks. Results: The limited use group showed significant reductions in loneliness and depression over three weeks compared to the control group. Both groups showed significant decreases in anxiety and fear of missing out over baseline, suggesting a benefit of increased self-monitoring. Discussion: Our findings strongly suggest that limiting social media use to approximately 30 minutes per day may lead to significant improvement in well-being.

  • all notifications off except alarms and slack

  • only check for messages at 1100 and 1800
    restrict web browsing to same

  • unsubscribe from email lists

  • remove apps that are no longer required

  • black and white screen reduces distraction
    nellie bowles 2018
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/grayscale-phone.html

    • use assistive touch and display accomodations
      assistive touch single tap: home
      assistive touch double tap: accessibility shortcut
      assistive touch hold: lock screen
      accessibility shortcut: colour filters, greyscale

  • 1blocker x safari adblocker
    itunes.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-x/id1365531024

  • extra “dimming” — i think this works by colour changes rather than backlight changes, so will not actually save battery, but it is significantly dimmer than the standard lowest setting. i use the accessibility menu in the control centre to turn zoom on and off

    • There’s a hidden setting that lets you triple tap your iPhone’s home button to dim its display even lower than what’s normally allowed. It’s perfect for looking at your screen at night or when you want to maximize battery life.
      Here’s how to enable it:
      • Open the Settings app and go to General —> Accessibility.
      • Enable the “Zoom” option. Make sure that the “Zoom Region” setting is set to “Full Screen Zoom” in the same menu.
      • Tap on your screen three times using three fingers.
      • Tap on “Choose Filter” and select “Low Light.”
      • Tap anywhere on the screen with one finger.
      • In Accessibility’s settings, scroll to the bottom and tap “Accessibility Shortcut.”
      • Select “Zoom.”
      From now on, just triple tap your home button to dim your screen super low. Triple tapping again will make your screen go back to its previous brightness setting.

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• omnifocus

  • for creating habits and things that you want to be reminded of at set intervals

  • url schemes
    https://inside.omnifocus.com/url-schemes

  • omnifocus:///inbox  
      omnifocus:///flagged  
      omnifocus:///projects  
      omnifocus:///contexts  
    
      omnifocus:///perspective/perspectivename  
    
      omnifocus:///projects  
    

    to link to a specific project, select the project container and use the share sheet to copy the link to that project, you will get a link like the following:

      omnifocus:///task/hFNO3B69haH  
    

  • keyboard shortcuts

    • omnifocus shortcuts
      universal shortcuts (available anywhere in the app)
      cut ⌘-x
      copy ⌘-c
      paste ⌘-v
      undo ⌘-z
      redo ⌘-shift-z
      inspector shortcuts (when editing item details)
      edit note ⌘-’
      set/remove flag ⌘-shift-l
      info control-1
      note control-2
      attachments control-3
      save (when adding a new item only) ⌘-s
      save plus (when adding a new item only) ⌘-option-s
      cancel ⌘-.
      delete ⌘-delete
      previous item ⌘-↑
      next item ⌘-↓
      projects perspective shortcuts
      new project ⌘-shift-n
      new folder ⌘-option-shift-n
      tags perspective shortcuts
      new tag ⌘-control-n
      review perspective shortcuts
      mark reviewed ⌘-shift-r
      navigation shortcuts (outside the new item editor)
      omnifocus settings ⌘-,
      new inbox item control-option-space
      new action ⌘-n
      sync ⌘-shift-s
      search ⌘-f
      favorite perspectives ⌘-1 through ⌘-10
      collapse all ⌘-control-0
      expand all ⌘-control-9
      home ⌘-shift-h
      omnifocus help ⌘-?

  • omnifocus:///change-setting?DefaultDueTime=07:00  
    

  • omnifocus templates via workflow with runtime substitution of inline variables
    u/KirkAFur 2017
    https://www.reddit.com/r/omnifocus/comments/69xjg3/how_i_use_templates_on_ios/

  • modify only the current instance of a repeating omnifocus task
    u/kirkafur 2017
    https://www.reddit.com/r/omnifocus/comments/8cnpq4/modify_only_the_current_instance_of_a_repeating/

  • omnifocus perspectives
    http://www.macdrifter.com/2019/03/brief-examples-of-omnifocus-perspectives.html

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• ithoughts
  retrieval system
  toketaware.com/

  • for those things you want to record, but not necessarily be reminded of until you want to find them

  • navigating cognition: spatial codes for human thinking
    jacob l. s. bellmund et al. 2018
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aat6766

    • The hippocampal formation has long been suggested to underlie both memory formation and spatial navigation. We discuss how neural mechanisms identified in spatial navigation research operate across information domains to support a wide spectrum of cognitive functions. In our framework, place and grid cell population codes provide a representational format to map variable dimensions of cognitive spaces. This highly dynamic mapping system enables rapid reorganization of codes through remapping between orthogonal representations across behavioral contexts, yielding a multitude of stable cognitive spaces at different resolutions and hierarchical levels. Action sequences result in trajectories through cognitive space, which can be simulated via sequential coding in the hippocampus. In this way, the spatial representational format of the hippocampal formation has the capacity to support flexible cognition and behavior

  • spaced recall learning
    based on 10000 “boxes”
    Link: makiaea.org/00100

    • if you don’t need precision timing
      use partially automated sorting, progress and roll up functions

  • ithoughts2go free trial version
    Link: itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ithoughts2go-mindmap/id918458207

    • you can install both at the same time but url schemes (for me) then default to ithoughts2go
      WARNING: they both access icloud at the same time so you may lose data when they (inevitably) conflict — so install both at the same time only when absolutely necessary

  • download the original itmz files for this website by truncating and appending .itmz to the address as follows for example:
    (you may notice many “hidden” details like journal article abstracts etc)

    • webpage address:

        http://makiaea.org/00100-f532cddb27022a6126bbe6be09b1a4cc.html  
      

    • truncate and append itmz:

        http://makiaea.org/00100.itmz  
      

  • advanced
    Link: toketaware.com/ithoughts-faq-tips/

    • • what’s going on in this image?
        iphone 6+. jailbroken
        ithoughts and ithoughts2go
        split screen via medusa
        keyboard, fleksy and noblur

    • i am currently using an older version of ithoughts on my phone, as i can still export “unlinked” maps singly this way, so that they have sane filemames when used on the web (otherwise the ithoughts map id is appended in the most recent versions)

    • on ios if you have a large linked map to export to zipped web format, the app crashes mid–export as it cannot ask for that much memory from the system without being shut down automatically — yet I find the ios export more useful as I don't get polytonic greek font issues

    • so duplicate your index files into a separate folder and export them individually from there, and do your other files separately or as smaller groups using smaller index files

      • you can then use working copy to push them to github, for example

    • ithoughts (mac) web export high resolution images
      note that some fonts may not work as you would expect (polytonic greek)

      • “Try typing the following in at a terminal window - then restart the app and attempt another export.

        If using the Mac AppStore version then:

        defaults write com.toketaware.ithoughtsx.mas imageExportOption 3

        If using the version from my website then:

        defaults write com.toketaware.ithoughtsx imageExportOption 3

        NB: The above is case-sensitive.”

      • ios version has option in settings to do this, but if you have many large linked maps then it crashes as it runs out of memory to store them all — exporting on mac avoids this issue

    • can load as–last–seen

    • colour wheel for rainbow topics or links
      Link: toketaware.com/ithoughts-howto-rainbow

    • url scheme
      Link: toketaware.com/ithoughts-howto-x-callback-url

      • add new to existing map

          ithoughts://x-callback-url/amendMap?path=/iCloud/01066&target=incoming&edit=yes  
        

    • outlining with ithoughts and marked
      Link: mygeekdaddy.net/2015/07/01/outlining-with-ithoughts-marked/

    • calculations
      Link: toketaware.com/ithoughts-howto-calculations

      • budget etc

    • presentation mode (mac)
      Link: toketaware.com/ithoughtsx-howto-present

    • ithoughts sync
      Link: toketaware.com/ithoughts-howto-sync

      • I prefer icloud but you can use other services
      • webdav
        • box.com
          Link: support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/200519748-Does-Box-support-WebDAV-

  • double–tap outside selected topic behaviour
    while cursor visible at beginning of topic, or visible within topic (but not at its end), creates new sibling topic
    while cursor not visible or visible at end of topic, creates new child topic

  • using the “clip to ithoughts” share sheet extension has some quirks you might not be aware of.

    • you need to open up ithoughts on the same device after all your clipping activity, in order for ithoughts to process the clips into the specified file; that is, you cannot clip on one device and expect the clips to show in the file when viewed straight away on another device, without this intermediate step on the original “clipping” device.
    • clipped urls are put in the url section of an ithoughts topic, so if you cut or copy the topic and paste it into a text editor such as 1writer, you will only get the description saved in the topic, rather than the link itself. therefore, if you want the actual link, you may need to devise a workaround. (such as using the ithoughts url scheme via the shortcuts app to clip as text only — but this is a little more cumbersome to use than the standard ithoughts clip extension, in that you need to create the shortcut, and each time you use it, you must select it in an extra step, and when used, it shunts you over into ithoughts, out of your source material. it is easy enough to swap back into your source, especially if you are using a newer ipad or iphone or an external keyboard, but the whole process takes several extra steps — though you do get the url in a usable form at the end of that!)
    • so i use three separate inbox files for clipping, one on each device that i normally use; this helps keep file conflicts to a minimum

  • export to working copy app
    (response with lots of files is slow, just wait until each step completes)

    • for html
      • 20190224 use share sheet from index file (00100) and “open in another app”, “website (.zip)”, save in working copy (you need to enable this the first time from the share sheet), unzip to repository, select repository
    • for itmz
      • 20190224 currently use files app to copy source files from ithoughts directory to working copy directory (select overwrite) nb you will need to enable the working copy app directory within the files app first
      • remove protective case from ipad as it tends to overheat during this process
        • in settings app, display and brightness, change auto-lock to “never”
          • in ithoughts app, choose 00100
            • tap on share arrow, share as web
              • choose working copy for output
                • unzip to repository
                  • commit
      • in files, go to ithoughts directory in files app
        • sort files by date, most recent at top
          • tap and hold on topmost file, choose share
            • share to working copy
              • select repository makiaea.github.io, tap save as…
                • tap done on keyboard, tap popup line that says “enter a filename that is not in use or tap here to overwrite”
                  • wait until change appears “x saved. consider committing right away, tap just save
                    • scroll the file list up for each file processed so that they are hidden beyond the top of the visible files, leaving the next file to be done visible at the top
                      • continue until app complains about low memory
                        • go to working copy app, do commit x (itmz)
                          • tap all button, wait until all changes to none, tap commit
                            • repeat process above with all files that have change date up to 5th of last month (last update) OMIT files you do not want to be public
                              • this is the only safe way i have found to overwrite the itmz files correctly
                                • turn off “never” in auto screen lock settings

  • note the search function displays a maximum of 50 results, which is better than rival mindmaps but not good enough for our usage case

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• 1writer
  1writerapp.com/

  • for those things you want to record right away for processing later
  • can turn off smart–hyphens while allowing smart–quotes (I like using n–dashes, so this is one way of achieving this); alternatively can add n–character in 1writer’s in–app extended keyboard
  • am using scripts in 1writer extended keyboard for formatting text e.g. lowercase, linking, yyyymmdd and more specialised ones for formatting doi, italicising entire lines etc.

    • copy –paste the code from the webpage into a new script, temporarily until the app author is allowed to implement the import action function again

    • all lowercase

      • http://1writerapp.com/action/5022a

      • var AllText = editor.getText();  //get all text  
        
          AllText = AllText.toLowerCase() //make all lower case  
        
          editor.setText(AllText);  
        

    • italicise current line

      • http://1writerapp.com/action/779f6

    • et al.

      • http://1writerapp.com/action/9c8d5

    • make link from current line

      • http://1writerapp.com/action/1b136

    • doi link

      • http://1writerapp.com/action/d3780

    • copy to clipboard and erase all

      • http://1writerapp.com/action/7473c

    • yyymmdd

      • http://1writerapp.com/action/c6987

    • replace _ with space

      • http://1writerapp.com/action/68f47

    • get link to open current file from other apps
      1writerapp.com/action/f22b1
      by @alankantz

    • remove spaces in selection

      • var SelectedText = editor.getSelectedText();  //get selected text  
        
          SelectedText = SelectedText.replace(/ /g,’’); //replace _with space  
        
          editor.replaceSelection(SelectedText);  
        

    • uppercase selection

      • var SelectedText = editor.getSelectedText();  //get selected text  
        
          SelectedText = SelectedText.toUpperCase(); //make selected text upper case  
        
          editor.replaceSelection(SelectedText);  
        

    • open a shortcut
      e.g. for one step roundtrip through omnifocus; copy any text to be input into the clipboard first, then use the clipboard within the shortcut

      • app.openURL(‘shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=thisisthenameoftheshortcut’);  
        

  • no subscription required
  • url scheme
    1writerapp.com/docs/urlscheme

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00143

• this is the problem with search — it can only give us what we already know to look for.
• a 100x100 map can be used entirely offline, on paper if needed, and retrieval is not dependent on machine search
• we neglect the purpose of forgetting, of unknowing. i do not try for perfect recall of 10000 datapoints, as forgetting is one way of prioritising; it is innate, reliable, does not require effort — it is a free ecosystem resource we take for granted

create system

to set down and retrieve ideas

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• technetium Tc (τεχνητός technetos, artificial)

• zebediah carter

  • talking to spaceship
  • sword

• DC

  • old makiaea css

    • body {
      font-size:85%;
      font-family:"HelveticaNeue-Light","Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:300;font-size:24px;background:#fff;color:#666;
      }
      h1 {

        font-weight: normal;  
        font-size: 1.3em;  
        margin-bottom: 0.00em;  
        margin-top: 0.00em;  
      

      }
      h2 {
      text-align: center;
      font-size: 1.2em;
      font-weight: normal;
      margin-bottom: 0.00em;
      margin-top: 0.43em;
      position:-webkit-sticky !important;
      top:0px;
      background-color:white;
      padding:0px;
      border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
      }
      h3 {
      text-align: center;
      font-style: italic;
      font-size: 1.1em;
      font-weight: normal;
      margin-bottom: 0.00em;
      margin-top: 0.43em;

      }
      h4 {
      text-align: center;
      font-size: 1.0em;
      font-weight: normal;
      margin-bottom: 0.00em;
      margin-top: 0.43em;

      }
      h5 {
      text-align: center;
      font-style: italic;
      font-size: 0.8em;
      font-weight: normal;
      margin-bottom: 0.00em;
      margin-top: 0.43em;
      position:-webkit-sticky !important;
      top:0px;
      background-color:white;
      padding:0px;

      }
      h1 + h1, h1 + h2, h1 + h3, h1 + h4, h2+ h2, h2 + h3, h2 + h4, h3 + h3, h3 + h4 {
      margin-top:0
      }

      a {
      text-decoration:none;
      outline-width:0;
      color:#83c5a9;
      }

      p {
      margin-bottom:0.00em;
      margin-top: 0.00em;
      text-indent: 0.5em;
      }

      table {margin-bottom:0.50em;}
      p.note {
      line-height: 1.20em;
      font-size: 0.83em;
      margin-bottom: 0.57em;
      margin-top: 0.00em;
      text-indent: 0.00em;
      margin-right: 0.00em;
      margin-left: 0.00em;
      text-align: left;
      font-weight: normal;
      font-style: normal;
      }
      p.quote {
      line-height: 1.20em;
      font-size: 0.92em;
      margin-bottom: 0.52em;
      margin-top: 0.00em;
      margin-right: 0.00em;
      margin-left: 1.03em;
      text-align: left;
      font-weight: normal;
      font-style: normal;
      }
      span.superscript {
      font-weight: normal;
      font-style: normal;
      font-size: 0.7em;
      vertical-align: super;
      }
      .subtitle {
      font-weight: normal;
      font-size: 0.83em;
      font-style: italic;
      text-align: center;
      }
      /* ul bullets removed and padding removed, fontsize set */
      ul {
      list-style-type:none;
      padding-left:0;
      font-size: 0.83em;
      }
      table {
      margin-left:auto;
      margin-right:auto;
      /width:100%;/
      }
      th {
      font-weight: normal;
      text-align: center;
      }
      .it {
      font-style: italic;
      }

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