📺 Just watched The Devil Wears Prada, with Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep. Nice mix of comedy and drama.
I liked my new lock screen wallpaper so much that I could not resist sharing it with everyone, so here it goes… it mixes two of my passions — games and space.
Ok. Something I missed right now while inspecting the available fontawesome icons: an icon for Literal.club. Where is the love?
Ok. My mistake. I forgot to post his picture earlier this week, when he’d just finished his Christmas supper…
📺 We have just finished watching Black Adam. I must confess I wasn’t very excited with it, but I soon changed my mind — the plot had many twists and along the movie everything got clearer. I didn’t know this DC character but now I’m looking forwards to seeing Black Adam 2, if ever there’s one…
Have you ever seen reindeers helping a jumbo jet take off? Emirates posted an Instagram video where this magic happens and it went soooo viral. It’s worth your watch
We humans are biased towards dividing everything into two groups — as if it was always a matter of good x evil. It’s simple but dangerous because it can cause conflict where it doesn’t exist. This behavior of humankind is one that puts us all at the higher risks of intolerance.
It’s here. My last workday before Christmas break. No schedule today, going to use the time to make sure everything is well arranged for when I come back on January 3rd. It’s so nice to have this “mission accomplished” feeling… ☺️🎄
Everyone has the right to rewrite their past. The right to reframe. Derek Sivers is a wise man.
📺 Just finished watching The Grand Budapest Hotel, with Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe and a great cast. I’ve always wanted to watch it but had the opportunity only tonight. Pretty interesting plot and nice movie overall. Recommend it.
Christmas wish: @manton and the team giving us a dedicated emoji in discover for PKM. I can envision it as the file cabinet or folder… 🗄 📂
I tried Logseq's new whiteboard feature!
I’ve been contributing to Logseq for a couple of months now, as a backer — meaning $5 monthly donations to the team, who’s been doing a great job. This has already entitled me, in the recent past to testing their sync feature, which has been working like magic for me, allowing me to write or capture thoughts, texts and snippets in my iPhone and have them appear in my Windows PC, or vice-versa.
But the one feature I’d been wishing for this Christmas was the app’s whiteboard. Just a couple of days ago, Obsidian released their canvas, and they’re both meant for the same use case: having an infinite mindmapping, brainstorming or creative space. No matter how far you move or how much you add there, Obsidian and Logseq, and their respective canvases and whiteboards will encompass what you have in your mind.
Trying Obsidian canvas is something I haven’t done yet — it requires the 1.1.0 application version which, as I write, is an insider-only build. But I’m very impressed with what I saw tonight in Logseq’s whiteboard.
I am no specialized critic or anything, but one thing I know for sure: I’ve always been in love with canvases, mindmaps and brainstorming. As of lately, I was thinking of acquiring a version of Scapple, just to be able to use its wonderful canvas. I’ve been trying to improve as a writer, so it would help me placing story elements where they belong. But Logseq whiteboard feature has just made me realize I don’t need any other tool besides it.
I could place squares, rectangles, freeform text. Arrows and boxes, color them. Bold the text and make links to internal pages (which, once linked, opposite to what I have heard about Obsidian canvas, already appear on the page as backlinks). I could also remove the background of the drawings and paste images copied straight from my Google Chrome browser to Logseq, and it worked very fine.
Logseq is such a marvelous piece of software. It made me rediscover my writing, my ideas and made me start to feel like creating a digital garden somehow. I’m really looking forward its further development to see where things are going. But, for tonight, just because I have this new canvas to play around with and unleash my creativity, I’m the happiest man I could become so far.
It’s like getting an anticipated Christmas gift.
Any Readwise users out there to teach me how to subscribe to my newsletters straight from their apps? I have the impression this can be done from their Reader, just cannot figure out how…
And thanks to these straightforward instructions I was finally able to, from Windows, create the starting grounds for a digital garden 🪴 using Jekyll, Netlify and GitHub. It’s not ready for prime time yet, but I’ll share it later once it is.
This Christmas things will be different?!
⚽️ Fantastic World Cup final match between Argentina 🇦🇷 and France 🇫🇷. Really great game. In the end, Messi prevailed. Third world championship for our neighboring country, well deserved.
📚 Finished reading Ruined by Reading, by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Some very interesting reflections on reading.
📺 We have just finished watching Enola Holmes 2 here. And we all agreed it’s such a shame there isn’t a third movie to be seen right now. But all the cliffhangers are there, put in the right place. Let’s wait and hope.
I have created a Hugo Shortcode to display my “Currently reading” books, as they’re listed at Literal.club. The thing is: although I’ve tested it locally with Hugo and it worked in my machine (see picture), I know neither how to incorporate it to my current MB setup (a.k.a. the lovely Cards theme), nor how to turn it into a plugin. Any ideas?
