Digital notes are great, but there is still something to be said for good old pen and paper --- and writing notes with a nice fountain pen on good paper with a well behaved ink can be a pleasure. To that end, I'll highlight a pen, paper, notebook, or ink that I enjoy writing with on occasion for those who might be interested. Back in my university days I had a black Rotring 600 series fountain pen and it was my favorite writing device for a few years for pretty much everything (research notes, ...

I finally got around to getting a Raspberry Pi 4 --- I figured upgrading my NAS/Plex server from a Pi 3 was a valid reason. I grabbed the 4GB version, along with a green, aluminum heat-sink case from pimoroni: Setting it up as a drop in replacement went smoothly enough. I wrote a new micro-SD card with the latest Raspbian, booted, logged in with ssh, configured and updated Raspbian and then installed: OMV - configured with the same NFS shares as before on the existing 5TB USB-3 drive. Plex ...

Because a person can only binge-watch The Expanse, all the Stargate shows, DS9, and the BSG remake so many times during any given pandemic, I've also been doing some minor tweaks on a fork of Maxime Lapointe's Indent Editor for Standard Notes. The tweaks thus far: Markdown (atx-style) headings get a bit of color utilizing the --sn-stylekit-info-color of the current theme (I've only tested this with the Slate Theme and the Gruvbox Dark Theme). Blank lines adjusted up from the 0.4em of the Inde...

A Useable SN Plain Text Editor The Indent Editor is a relatively recent (initial commit Jan 2020) and easily installed editor for Standard Notes. Think of it as another plain text editor upgraded with sensible indentation and prefix behaviour: continuation of indentation level when wrapping text. preservation of current indentation and prefix characters (- * > +) when hitting enter. increase indent of current line (or selected lines) by two spaces by hitting tab. decrease indent of current...

Init() And so it begins ... At this point I can't predict the frequency or content of the writings/musings that might appear here. Perhaps mini-reviews of a few of the free tools/themes/extensions I've come across for StandardNotes. Perhaps a philosophical rambling or two. A spot of code here and there. At any rate, something may prove useful or interesting or amusing to someone ... we shall see. puts "Hello Listed" __END__ ...