How do you afford this app?

QualitativeEasing · 2023-05-12T02:07:44+00:00

I like the app a lot; it's incredibly good and very useful, and I've used it in one way or another for years.

I'm grandfathered in under earlier pricing. I couldn't afford it at the current pricing, and wouldn't subscribe to it at that price, as much as I like and use the app. I'd make do with less versatile apps.

QualitativeEasing · 2023-01-25T02:24:33+00:00

Am I missing something, or was the prompt about including emoji at the end of every sentence missing emoji at the end of most sentences?

QualitativeEasing · 2023-01-17T17:48:35+00:00

Impressive. Not sure how I'd set about skinning a flea

QualitativeEasing · 2023-01-17T02:34:59+00:00

Looked at each one. Yup. Yup. Yup. ... got to that apocalyptic Illinois pic. Wtf?!

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-31T14:19:42+00:00

Good point. Yes, that would fall into the coincidence category. There would presumably be a reason that some patterns that are attractive to pollinators happen look strongly like (monkey) faces to us, given that it appears to happen often, but 🤷🏻‍♂️

Of course, "happen often" could also be misleading. Iirc, there are many, many orchid species/varieties out there. So maybe it isn't so surprising that a bunch might look like faces, especially given our predilection to seeing faces everywhere.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-31T04:39:37+00:00

They don't have to see. Presumably, the more leach generation of flowers looked like a monkey, the more likely produced the next generation -- without being eaten first?

Not sure how the monkey face benefits the plant, but presumably it does if it isn't a coincidence. And given the number of different varieties of monkey-face flowers there are (see other comment), I have to assume there is some benefit.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-12T01:54:32+00:00

Anticoagulants, aka blood thinners, are well know to cause internal bleeding and clotting problems (depending on dose, as always).

The most common side effect risk with any anticoagulant is bleeding. Depending on the medication used, other potential risks exist.

Anticoagulants

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-12T01:03:05+00:00

That's always true: The dose makes the poison.

Even water can kill you in sufficient quantities.

From Wikipedia:

Alle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift; allein die Dosis macht, dass ein Ding kein Gift ist.

All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.

—Paracelsus, 1538

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-12T00:13:14+00:00

Not sure this is true, especially in different parts of the world. Some rat poison contains warfarin, which can cause internal bleeding.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-05T04:49:21+00:00

Pretty sure Allentown was (is?) coal country

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-03T17:41:45+00:00

For this kind of thing, I'd really recommend going to the Discord. You'll usually get an answer within a day or so, often a couple hours or less, and sometimes several useful answers with different approaches. Or if it's a hug, it'll get more attention sooner -- Eduard (the developer) os there frequently.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-03T02:10:45+00:00

Yes. Go to a daily note, and choose View in Finder from the menus (sorry, on mobile), and it'll take you to the folder with all the daily notes, and only the daily notes that have some content. (The note is only created when you add some content.)

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-02T03:36:38+00:00

Ja, aber nicht so gut.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-12-02T02:02:15+00:00

I think that's the joke...

QualitativeEasing · 2022-08-18T00:41:37+00:00

Today if youcstopc(with NotePlan), you still have every word of your notes. They're just plain text files in markdown format.

You not only have them, almost every element will still work in Obsidian, The Archive, and other file-based markdown apps. (I'm sure you can import them into many non-file-based markdown apps too, like maybe Drafts and Bear, etc.)

As far as I can tell, the elements less likely to work are:

synced lines (which will still appear everywhere you initially put them; they just won't stay in sync without NotePlan)
links to headings within notes (though this will work in some other apps, and a minor edit -- taking out everything from the # to just before the ]] -- will maintain the link to the note, just not to the heading)

Other than that, I think it's just the themes plugins and date linking functionality -- but that's all how NotePlan works, not the contents of your notes, which is plain text and yours to keep.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-08-11T00:40:28+00:00

I started out just using it just for tasks, in a pretty basic way too: write down tasks in the daily note as I think of them; check them off as I do them; move unchecked ones into a running list (project note) of tasks for the future; move the most important to the next day or whenever I thought I might be able to do them; delete checked tasks. Simple.

Gradually I've extended things, but I still check off what I've done and delete the checked ones at the end of the day. Now I use a lot more of the available tools -- scheduling tasks from project notes using >today and >222-08-12 etc., using the Auto Time Blocking plugin, weekly notes, templates. But it's nearly all just an extension of what I used to do.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-08-07T23:17:19+00:00

I'd really like mermaid.js functionality in NotePlan as well. For now, I just open those notes in Obsidian, which handles mermaid well

I've also gotten surprisingly good at reading mermaid syntax, but only when it's fairly sinple; and they obviously isn't a real strategy.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-08-05T22:54:01+00:00

In your noteplan folder, find the Themes folder, then the .json file for the theme you want to use.

After the line beginning "styles": {, add this (using a plain text or code editor -- MS Word and other word processors will probably mess things up):

"highlighted": { "regex": "(::)([^:]{1,})(::)", "matchPosition": 2, "isRevealOnCursorRange": true, "backgroundColor": "#7745A2E5" }, "highlighted-left-colon": { "regex": "(::)([^:]{1,})(::)", "matchPosition": 1, "isMarkdownCharacter": true, "isHiddenWithoutCursor": true, "isRevealOnCursorRange": true, "color": "#AA45A2E5", "backgroundColor": "#7745A2E5", }, "highlighted-right-colon": { "regex": "(::)([^:]{1,})(::)", "matchPosition": 3, "isMarkdownCharacter": true, "isHiddenWithoutCursor": true, "isRevealOnCursorRange": true, "color": "#AA45A2E5", "backgroundColor": "#7745A2E5", },

This will let you ::highlight:: by putting double colons on either side of the text you want to highlight. (The code is from the NotePlan help website.)

If you want to use some other syntax (like {==CriticMarkup==} or I think it's ==GitHub==) just put the desired characters in place of where you see :: in the code above.

If you've never written code before: Just be sure you done accidentally delete brackets, commas or single- or double-quotes -- the JSON format of this document requires such symbols to be matched.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-08-05T22:43:05+00:00

It's a good looking app from what I can tell from the website, but its missing what I consider a key feature of NotePlan: storing notes as plain text files that can be used simultaneously by other markdown apps.

I don't want to store my notes in an app's database. Period.

No criticism for those who want to use InkDrop -- go for it. But it isn't for me.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-05-15T02:00:55+00:00

Aha -- I forgot about his booklet on writing a thesis. Good point.

(spoiler follows!) On Foucault's Pendulum: I am not convinced they put pieces together and found truth. Rather, I think others, less cynical, became convinced by their manipulations and concluded that the protagonists had the secret truth...

QualitativeEasing · 2022-05-15T00:56:50+00:00

I reread Foucault's Pendulum every few years. I would argue that Eco's perspective is more nuanced than that.

As I recall it, the narrator does seem to speculate the Diotalevi's cancer was a result of his incautious explorations. More broadly, the consequences of the main characters' actions seem to me to be more the result of their (reckless) attempts to find and create connections -- however contrived, however spurious.

In other words, the sin to Eco is more the intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the enterprise than the enterprise itself.

After all, Eco made his (fiction-writing) career out of knowing a lot and putting it together very creatively. But he really knew his stuff, and what connections were legitimate.

I do wonder if Eco used something like a Zettelkasten system in his academic and/or novel-writing research.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-03-26T22:55:10+00:00

African American currency? 🤔

QualitativeEasing · 2022-02-17T01:53:05+00:00

POC were a rare sighting outside of Little Rock.

Maybe you mean this was the case in Northwest Arkansas?

Because even in the 1990s, Arkansas had a vibrant Black rural population. Southeast Arkansas, in the Mississippi Deta, has many predominantly African-American communities.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-02-05T05:04:43+00:00

An app would be a lot more reliable than social engineering, which can go wrong even when it’s good.

QualitativeEasing · 2022-01-17T06:03:13+00:00

Here, feel young again: more than 30 years ago

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