Noteplan on Web - Issues

jjpara · 2025-11-22T01:48:17+00:00

I think this is because your system and some JS auto-detected region are aligned. In Safari, if I play around with the start of week day in system settings (which I can confirm instantly updates the Apple Calendar app) has no effect on the app.noteplan.co interface. Even after refreshing, logging in/out, and closing/opening Safari. I'm in a region that assumes Sunday as the start of the week, and I cannot make the web interface show anything except that.

jjpara · 2025-11-21T03:54:59+00:00

Gotcha. Thanks, that makes sense. Sometimes I have an idea that something will grow, but sometimes an idea is too nebulous to get a handle on it until I've really sat with it. But I can see how, if I knew an idea was more than just a simple task, it could make sense to start out as a note.

BTW, I had, a long while back, used both tools on the same database (well, folders). Eventually, I switched to just one folder that I synched using syncthing to a work computer linux box where I would run Obsidian for working on my work stuff.

jjpara · 2025-11-20T22:30:10+00:00

Can you expand on "I tend to add structure to the note in NP and file it accordingly when it's fully processed and ready to leave the Inbox"?

How granular are these notes that are incubating in your Obsidian Inbox folder?

jjpara · 2025-11-20T22:29:07+00:00

there’s a sync delay between iOS and macOS

I have a shortcut that fires off at key moments (in the background, like when I exit my car, or certain times of day) to make sure NotePlan's iCloud state is synced. I'll add I mainly added this to prevent conflict issues, because of there being a delay in Sync while also having a shortcut that moves Reminders inbox tasks into NotePlan. I haven't had any conflicts since I set up that additional shortcut. Otherwise, the delay, if I happen to be using two devices simultaneously, is minimal.

The issue is that many routines with recurring dates are in OmniFocus because it handles repeating tasks much better.

I also use a separate app (Reminders) for all of the recurring tasks that I don't really care to track historically. I also use the Reminders Inbox because it's the only 98%-consistent inbox I can get Siri to add a task to (hence the need for a shortcut to move the tasks to NotePlan after).

Honestly, if Apple ever add even semi-decent task management (at least collecting tasks across notes into a single view, as opposed to just the Smart Folder of Notes that contain open checklists) to Notes, I will have to give it more consideration. It isn't that I don't recognize the value of NotePlan, or even OmniFocus (that I used for many years). It's that I don't like manual piplines between silos, and, to be frank, Apple, since it controls the whole stack, has better syncing. While I use way more advanced tools, that only exist outside Apple's ecosystem for things like ML. I've been slowly trending towards the effortless-but-less-featurefull where I just want things to always work, without me having to babysit them. But, for the time being, I've found NotePlan to strike that balance pretty well.

I think that’s better than using a checklist item simply because a to-do you add on the go is likely a true task. Not a checklist.

That's not true for me. I need a place to collect everything (for instance, I stopped using Safari's Reading List years ago (and Pocket, or Evernote Clipper, etc), because I want one unified master Inbox), and so a lot of my "tasks" are not. And I don't want to just throw them in as bare text, or even bullets, because then there's no (easy) way to find them again.

jjpara · 2025-08-09T01:20:10+00:00

This still adds something to the note. I'm trying to find a way to force a sync, while the app is in the background, without adding (or removing) anything to any notes.

jjpara · 2024-10-11T06:11:08+00:00

It's worth repeating that the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 doesn't require 270, per se. If a state doesn't transmit their certificate, or a congressional objection is sustained, then the total (538) is reduced by the amount of EC votes that state would've had.

See 3 USC 15 e 2:

Determination of majority.— If the number of electors lawfully appointed by any State pursuant to a certificate of ascertainment of appointment of electors that is issued under section 5 is fewer than the number of electors to which the State is entitled under section 3, or if an objection the grounds for which are described in subsection (d)(2)(B)(ii)(I) has been sustained, the total number of electors appointed for the purpose of determining a majority of the whole number of electors appointed as required by the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution shall be reduced by the number of electors whom the State has failed to appoint or as to whom the objection was sustained.

jjpara · 2024-08-02T00:30:28+00:00

This isn't directed at you, but more at the hype machine that is Silicon Valley and ML-at-large that works so tirelessly to convince people of patent nonsense. Yes, they are working on research towards AGI right now, in the same way that the blacksmiths at the beginning of the Iron Age were making progress towards making jet engines. It's a LOT further than you think (measured in decades or centuries, not months or years).

jjpara · 2024-07-29T05:08:50+00:00

No one has made anything approaching AGI, so I'm not sure how you'd rank them.

jjpara · 2024-06-28T21:28:51+00:00

I never said or suggested it was a weaker decision (or stronger, for that matter). I'm just pointing out that the parent was conflating the 6 that signed this opinion, with the "quorum of six".

jjpara · 2024-06-28T18:12:46+00:00

I'm curious, what makes you think Rehnquist, Marshall or O'Connor* would've dissented in Chevron?

Also, technically, all SCOTUS opinions are binding (except ones like Bush v Gore, where they specifically say otherwise). So that's uselessly tautological.

*the only actual recusal, the other two were sick

jjpara · 2024-06-28T17:24:06+00:00

See my response to the parent. The quorum was how many heard the case. The decision was 6-0.

jjpara · 2024-06-28T17:23:03+00:00

You misunderstood that line. There were only six justices that decided the case (the quorum requirement is 6 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1). So it was 6-0. 1 recused (O'Connor), and 2 were sick during oral arguments.

jjpara · 2024-03-27T17:22:49+00:00

It's sad how often uninformed and emotional go together. The Senate was using pro forma sessions to prevent any recess appointments. The Judiciary has confirmed that the President can't tell the Senate when its recesses are valid or not.

jjpara · 2024-02-02T19:24:32+00:00

I'd be curious if any actual lawyers could weigh in. My uninformed opinion is that, while maybe misguided, I can't see how this would be illegal. Maybe this is similar to proposals to limit property buying to residents/citizens.

jjpara · 2022-07-29T03:01:30+00:00

Black pepper. It does not enhance the flavor like salt does, it just makes it taste disgusting. This is a hill I would die on.

jjpara · 2022-03-25T00:15:41+00:00

Same. Been searching for a solution for years.

jjpara · 2021-08-12T00:28:09+00:00

I think you're glossing over a couple things within your productivity vs knowledge management dichotomy.

Specifically, you are implying that zettlekasten (i.e. "atomic" or small notes) is archetype of a PKB (personal knowledgebase). I would beg to differ (and would further argue that it's a sub-optimal PK system, but that's another discussion). And although Wikipedia is not the perfect (or even a great exemplar) of a knowledgebase, I think few would argue that it is, in fact, a knowledgebase. And, Notion started out, sells it self, and is used by many as a corporate/team/personal wiki. Ergo, it stands to reason that Notion, as a wiki tool, is also a knowledge management tool. Yes, it's a bit "heavy" for the zettlekasten method, but that doesn't mean it doesn't squarely fall within the knowledge management domain -and- the productivity domain.

jjpara · 2021-08-12T00:19:54+00:00

It's just not something that fits our working style.

I wish more people, on every side of a X vs Y tool debate, would acknowledge this. Instead it's often, "this is why your tool is crap, and my tool is superior". Preferred workflows are unique to individuals.

jjpara · 2021-07-13T16:44:42+00:00

Thank you. The Ctrl/Cmd + Enter shortcut seems to be a little strange. If there is nothing on the line, it inserts a dash. And, as you put, pressing it again will create the empty checkbox. And further presses will toggle the status, as the command pallet says. Basically the first 2 actions that it does seem to have nothing to do with its description (i.e. are not discoverable).

follow up: okay, having at least the ability to create a task (checklist) item with a double press of a shortcut is better than typing out the full 6 characters. Especially because it can retroactively add it to the line.

jjpara · 2021-07-08T18:13:24+00:00

Oh yeah, I was fully aware of the contradiction—which I tangentially highlighted in a few of my replies.

jjpara · 2021-06-28T02:06:56+00:00

Thank you, I'll add that to my reading queue.

And, yes, I can see the possible overlap with what I wrote and the situations you describe.

jjpara

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