Black and white image of a pedestrian crosswalk, featuring alternating light and dark textured stripes. The surface appears rough, typical of outdoor pavement, with a curved edge of a sidewalk visible at the bottom.

A dimly lit black and white image of a city street at night. The primary focus is on an illuminated sign reading "Tricker's Bench Made, Finest English Shoes." The surrounding area is dark, with faint outlines of buildings and streetlights visible in the background.

A clear, detailed photograph of the full moon against a black night sky. The lunar surface shows visible craters and dark maria, highlighting the moon's texture and features.
Moon

Nitrogen
Nitrogen

A tall streetlight illuminates a small area in an otherwise dark setting. Below, a tree is partially visible, outlined by the light. The rest of the scene is shrouded in darkness, creating a stark contrast between the illuminated objects and the surrounding night.
A Lantern and a Tree

Black and white image of a streetlight pole with a single lamp attached near the top. Power lines extend from the top of the pole, set against a clear sky.

Making your own bread is awesome

Baking bread is really a great thing. Yesterday we had “Wurzelbrot” (similar to baguette) made with sourdough for breakfast. Then in the afternoon, homemade pizza in the Ooni oven with our own yeast dough, and in the evening, lard bread (with vegan lard and soy yogurt), also made with sourdough 🤩.

Automated Daily Notes in Obsidian - Daily News Integration

For over a year, a draft has been lying in my project folder, in which I wanted to describe all the shortcuts I use to automatically add some information to my Daily Notes in Obsidian at the end of the day. However, the project was far too big, as my setup is quite complex, and so I haven’t really made any real progress in writing so far. That’s why I thought I should break it down into several smaller pieces (posts), as is always advisable with large tasks, and just start. So today I’m starting completely at random with a shortcut that was only recently added. I will deliberately not go into too much detail, but rather outline a rough framework. If anyone is interested in more detailed information, I will of course try help. Just contact me via e-mail or Mastodon.

But enough of the preamble.

A series of Apple Shortcut automations runs at the end of each day and push information to my Daily Note in Obsidian. Therefore, a helper shortcut controls approximately 15 different shortcuts that collect data.

My Daily Notes consist of several sections:

Here is a sample screenshot of one of my daily notes (sorry, it’s in German):

So, let’s dive a little bit deeper into the Daily News integration: Tagesschau delivers three important news items twice daily via iMessage. I have those messages muted but an Apple Automation Shortcut picks them up on my iPhone, saves them into Drafts and applies a tag. At day’s end, another shortcut collects the tagged news from Drafts, archives them there, strips a few things, adds a Dataview prefix to the summarised headline section and inserts them to the Daily News section in my Daily Notes Template. (BTW using that property and Dataview, I can display the most important news per day nicely in my weekly notes. But this is a completely different story I 😎.)

And, in case you have wondered: The magic link between all the different apps, Apple Shortcuts and Obsidian, that makes all these automations possible in the first place, is Actions for Obsidian. This is such a great tool 🤩.

Okay, so, that’s it for today. Hopefully, it won’t take me another year to continue this series. 🙋‍♂️

ShareMyPlugin: All My Enabled Obsidian Plugins

Lou wrote about his Obsidian plugins and mentioned the Share My Plugin List plugin. I’ve previously shared my 10 favorite plugins, but this tool makes it so easy to list all my enabled plugins that I couldn’t resist giving it a try:

I love how easy it is to vote in Germany

You automatically receive your election documents without having to request them. On election day, you simply walk a few hundred meters to your nearest polling station—ideally in perfect weather—where friendly volunteers are ready to hand you your ballot.

There are usually no long lines, no waiting times.

The entire process takes just a couple of minutes, plus the short walk there and back.

Unread

Rediscover the joy of reading your favorite writers and publications with Unread.

Unread is a (not exactly cheap, subscription based) classic RSS client for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS with a strong focus on design and typography and a perfectly harmonised feature set. I am thrilled.

Unread Homepage Screenshot (2025-02-20)
Unread Homepage Screenshot (2025-02-20)

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Finished reading: Die Bullet-Journal-Methode by Ryder Carroll 📚

Oh by the way, Dry January ✅

I’m super happy that it was really easy for me.

These figures are a little out of date, but have only got worse since then. I don’t understand how anyone can really believe that foreigners or LGBTQIA+ people are the core problem in our society.

Media Diet

I wish everyone a good start to the new week. Over the weekend I deliberately didn’t read any news, didn’t consume any RSS articles or social media feeds. My phone felt pleasantly useless. It wasn’t easy for me, of course, but it was a good move. I have just marked 594 unread articles in my feed reader as read and should urgently think about whether I should fundamentally change the way I consume information.

OMG why did nobody tell me that Dataview Publisher (https://github.com/udus122/dataview-publisher) for #Obsidian exists? What a freakin' game changer 🤩.

That sounds easy and fun. I will definitely try it out: There oughta be a Game Boy Slideshow

Why do we have to read all the crap about Trump again. All the headlines, all the newspapers… filled with a big load of bullshit. As if our own countries would not be of any interest. Can‘t we just ignore this fucking clown? I try to escape but there’s no way! I need a content blocker that removes everythi... hutaffe.blog

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TIL if you enable “Offload unused apps” in iOS settings, an app will eventually be deleted, even if you use its functions via a shortcut every day. This will of course break the latter. 🤷‍♂️

SwitchBuddy

The unofficial companion app for Nintendo Switch

SwitchBuddy is a companion app specifically for the Nintendo Switch. You can easily transfer captured screenshots to your iPhone, stay informed about new releases, get an overview of the latest news, follow sales, and, of course, track your own game collection along with a wishlist, etc. It may not be the most beautiful app, but it is very functional. I use it daily.

SwitchBuddy Homepage Screenshot (07.12.2024)
SwitchBuddy Homepage Screenshot (07.12.2024)

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