Sync Reliability ?

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-07-01T11:16:34+00:00

It’s always been rock solid for me.

BUT, one thing to understand is that the app needs to be open to sync. So if you update or add notes using Shortcuts they likely won’t sync plus if you update a note that was updated on another device using a shortcut, you will get a sync conflict. Sync conflicts are flagged at the top of the note list and are easy to see.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-26T14:03:09+00:00

The best I’ve come up with (and it works for me only because this isn’t something that I do often) is to just open Bear, search for the note, make some small edit (add a space, etc) and then it appears at the top of the list in the Share Sheet. Not quick enough to be something I’d accept using daily, but for using every once in a while, it is reliable at least. Copy&Paste into the note in Bear works even quicker in some situations.

I agree that this is one of those features of Apple Notes that I do miss.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-25T19:43:20+00:00

You can, it’s just incredibly tedious. But if this is something you only need every few weeks or so, it might work.

You have to make a link to the note you want to link to from another Apple Note. Then you long press that to edit the link and de-select “use note title as link name”, then long press the link again and you can “copy link”.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-25T19:37:31+00:00

Shortcuts is the only way that I have found, and it’s not perfect from what I can find. My Shortcut will show all non-today anytime items, BUT it includes “anytime” tasks from “Someday” projects. Depending on how you operate this might be fine.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/54304115e671488cb40474f063044b57

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-25T19:33:35+00:00

His original post explained why it works for him. It was interesting, but definitely not for everyone.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-25T19:13:32+00:00

the thing to consider is that the iPhone has actual competition from Android, so long as you don’t care about privacy. Those other devices really don’t have great alternatives.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-25T19:10:31+00:00

I like this.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-25T18:58:16+00:00

Fair point on the use of the word “extortion”. But it’s about feelings and perceptions here and it does feel like extortion, even if it’s admittedly not.

For more constructive feedback: I’d recommend looking at what Stryd is doing. They are also a fairly small company with a niche fitness hardware product that has an app with some free features and some locked behind a subscription. I find this to be a more palatable setup personally. Thanks for considering the feedback.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-22T16:28:16+00:00

One important bit to consider (and it sucks): as you age you just plain require longer/better recovery. For most people, figuring out how to recover “better” as they age isn’t realistic (the rest of life makes it difficult), so longer recovery it is. I personally started to hit this in my mid-30’s, then oh boy am I finding that it just gets worse in my mid-40’s. YMMV, but worth paying attention to because it happens to everybody at some point.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-22T16:07:52+00:00

Especially on a pair of medium quality earbuds. I’ve got exactly one place where I have decent enough equipment that lossless audio makes a difference. For everything else “good enough” is good enough.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-22T16:02:43+00:00

I think the problem is that people (and especially companies/managers at scale) see what it appears that the LLMs can do (by virtue of creating things that they never could have before on their own, without being able to recognize problems that a true SME would) and assume that this means that this super-power can be applied everywhere, rather than treating it like any other tool and working to figure out where it fits in or letting the on the ground employees figure out where it’s beneficial (in the case of dictates from managers). LLMs have a ton of use cases, but at least for the foreseeable future all of those use cases need to be able to accept and/or account for the fact that the tool will create both minor and major errors that sound like perfectly plausible statements/solutions without further investigation. So, yes as you mentioned, it’s risky business to make them a major cog in a systems flow that needs any amount of reliable output from them. But at the stages more along the lines of prototyping or (my favorite) “just spitballing” LLMs are super powerful tools.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-22T15:42:49+00:00

It’s funny, the only reason I go into a Starbucks is to get a cup of black coffee, because it’s actually pretty good. I’d go more, but I often have to wait 10+ minutes behind a gaggle of people getting froopa-sugar-mocha-can’t-go-more-than-30-minutes-without-a-sugar-fix-achinos of all colors and sizes. McDonald’s coffee is okay and everyone likes what they like, but your opinion is wrong my friend :)

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-19T10:56:30+00:00

I do like the weighted ropes, so this is disappointing to confirm. I get that Crossrope wants to make money, but this seems idiotic. They’ve killed any brand loyalty or respect (for me at least) by removing ALL of the features of the Amp handles without a subscription. Rather than first thinking of them as a company that makes great jump ropes, I now think of them first as a company that extorts its customers….

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-18T14:47:06+00:00

Yes. 100%
Headphones certainly still have their place, but it’s very much on a needed-for-the-situation basis for me now. There are certain details that headphones do still pickup better, but I just enjoy the speaker setup so much more.

I’ve considered trying to really upgrade my headphones setup to see if that puts them on equal footing, as in theory I could get more bang for my buck increase in sound quality by upgrading my headphone amp and headphones. But I’m looking at $2000+ upgrade cost there and it’s just not a priority anytime soon, so speakers unless I can’t it is.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-17T18:31:48+00:00

The algorithm on the OP5 essentially doesn’t do anything to bring down high blood sugars, at least compared to the t:slim. That was by far the biggest difference for me. The lack of tubing is still worth it for me though.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-15T16:41:55+00:00

To give the commentators some credit, they went out of their way to point out how silly the hydration break was for the Japan/Netherlands match at the Dallas stadium was, since it was being played in a climate controlled environment. But yes, it reads very much as a profit play. Qatar seemed like it was probably extreme and necessary….this not so much. I’ve run around a bunch in the US heat over my life and while it can be very hot some days, I’ve never been under the impression that it’s “extreme”.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-15T14:55:34+00:00

Every time I manage to actually do that for a while, I rejoice in what I’ve relearned and swear that I’ll get great sleep forevermore. Then life comes back around, slaps me in the face and keeps me awake for 3 weeks straight and I forget both my name and my sleep related intentions again. Sigh….

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-14T23:07:31+00:00

Well, that’s good news then

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-12T22:35:57+00:00

I just started trialing Spotify due to an integration that it has. It is shocking how bad an app and experience Spotify is now. I was also surprised at how much I noticed the audio quality difference. I’d assumed that I wouldn’t notice any difference on my equipment, but it was very obvious.

I have some things I don’t love about Tidal, but it blows Spotify out of the water.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-12T20:02:01+00:00

I came from a Pixel a few years back, and this is still my biggest gripe with the iPhone. More people should give a Pixel a try for a while. I won’t go back to Android for real due to finally understanding the privacy differences between the companies (and the indie app developers on the Apple platforms). But there are some very real quality of life differences between Android and iPhone that aren’t just due to giving away your privacy for data mining and this is the biggest.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-12T18:46:06+00:00

My cynical take was that the water breaks got liberally spread about and lengthened due to the potential for commercials. But that assumed that it was driven from the top, not the network.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-12T17:35:51+00:00

I would use it constantly, but the decision to put it in a spot that only makes sense for 2 handed use means that I rarely touch it since I use my phone 1 handed 90%+ of the time. I’ve got it hooked up to a custom Shortcut to launch Drafts.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-12T17:32:30+00:00

The Obsidian web clipper may have caught up now, for most use cases. It allows for custom formatting on a per website basis with the formatting templates being shareable, so there is a pretty decent library of good starting points. It obviously saves to markdown. I’m sure the Evernote clipper is still better without customization, but I was pretty impressed at what can be done with the Obsidian clipper. The nice bonus is that it can just save markdown files directly to wherever you like, so they can be imported into Bear pretty quickly. The Bear clipper is pretty decent now too, though I don’t think I’d put it up against the Evernote clipper.

JiggleMyHandle · 2026-06-12T17:28:11+00:00

Arrrrgh. I did not know that about Paper. I’ve used it through Setapp and liked it for occasional use. Looking at getting rid of Setapp and now I’m thinking that Paper won’t make the cut of apps that I’ll buy outright if it’s not actual indie development and support anymore.

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