Month: May 2018

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If you self-host your microblog, I know there’s an automated way of linking @mentions to the person’s micro.blog profile.

However since I also @mention Twitter and Instagram people, I use the following TextExpander snippets instead:

For micro.blog @mentions

Trigger: m:@

[@%filltext:name=User%](http://micro.blog/%filltext:name=User%)

For Twitter @mentions

Trigger: t:@

[@%filltext:name=User%](http://twitter.com/%filltext:name=User%)

For Instagram @mentions

Trigger: i:@

[@%filltext:name=User%](http://www.instagram.com/%filltext:name=User%)

Update:

These snippets, when activated, are supposed to ask you for input on what username you’re trying to link to. There’s an issue if you’re using these snippets on the TextExpander iOS keyboard (as opposed to TextExpander enabled apps like Ulysses or Drafts).

The TextExpander iOS keyboard doesn’t support popups, so you don’t get a chance to input the username you want.

Instead, you’d get an output like this:
[@(User)](http://www.instagram.com/(User))

This means you need to manually change the “User” to whomever you wanted to link to, but the brackets get in the way of quickly double tapping “User” and just replacing it with a name.

I’m afraid that until TextExpander changes the keyboard behaviour (which I’m assuming is being controlled by Apple), there are only two work-arounds:

  1. Use TextExpander enabled apps like Drafts or Ulysses to draft out your post.
  2. Create snippets that doesn’t have the brackets, so you can replace “User” quickly on iOS devices, like the following:
    [@User](http://micro.blog/User)

Let me know how you go with this, or if you have other ways of doing this. I would love to find other workarounds for this issue.

So I’ve been trying to export my Day One entries and been hitting a snag.
The app asks if I want to download all my images, I say yes, and the progress bar gets stuck on 0%.
I contact Day One, they say they know there’s an issue, but there’s no workaround and no ETA. 😣

I find my podcast playlist gets unmanageable when I start listening to an audiobook (in this case Persepolis Rising) and I have to start deleting some episodes.

What are some podcasts that you would never skip episodes of, and which shows are you happy to pick and choose?

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I’m still trying to figure when to use “read”, “bookmark”, or “like”. If I read a physical book that I liked, which post type would I use? What about an article that I read, what to keep record of, but can’t say I liked?

Same goes for things like “watch” and “listen”. If I want to track everything I watch, and mark everything as “watch”, how do I then mark some as stuff I like as opposed to stuff that’s just “meh”?

I’d like to hear how others use post kind.