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I omitted the vim plugin for TaskPaper from my R&D Notebook article. It was deliberate because I have absolutely no way to evaluate it. I don’t use vim. But it looks like an excellent implementation for anyone that does.

I thought I’d write a tome about the Phraseology update but why, when Eric Pramono does such an excellent review. Seriously, this is a good review for a an app I like a lot. What I can say about Phraseology 2.0 is that I love it for reviewing things I’ve written. I don’t use it as my primary writing tool, but I do like to send the text in for editing.

Boy, was this episode of Technical Difficulties fun to record. I have a crazy amount of little clipboard tricks on my Mac. I can just about get anything to anywhere in any format. Check out the show notes for the macros and a significant outline of the utilities we talked about.

Rob Trew is a wizard. This latest piece of work re-creates the OmniFocus perspective functionality for use with TaskPaper. It supports some basic natural language queries as well as adding an editing option. It all hinges on TaskPaper’s excellent query language. His work of bolting on huge feature enhancements to OmniFocus is now directed squarely at TaskPaper. This is going to get good.

Jordan Merrick wrote some excellent pieces for AppStorm before it was killed off a month ago. His latest project, The Instructional looks like something to pay attention to. My aim for The Instructional is to provide in-depth guides and workflows for Mac and iOS, picking up where most app reviews finish by exploring the various features and functions of apps for, and features of, both iOS and OS X.

Want to have a general announcement system in your house? Own a bunch of expensive Sonos speakers? Have I got the app for you. SonosVoice let’s you broadcast your own voice with a very slight delay across your entire Sonos speaker system. The app is $1 and a huge amount of fun (with an occasional practical use). My kid squealed like crazy hearing her voice broadcast around the house and I’ve used it to call my wife from another room with tremendous enthusiasm.

Just a friendly reminder, that if you follow my public Pinboard feed, you’ll find interesting reads such as the following: Bourbon County Stout Vintage Statistics JSON Mail Access Protocol Specification Famous Author’s Sleep Patterns 76,000 Pounds of Ribs Burn in Truck Fire The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits Feel free to thank me for not posting every link-article I find interesting.

Yuvi is a smart and honest guy that does some good stick figure art and better thinking: You know, I mostly hear one narrative about taking risks, and it’s the story where you take a big risk and you succeed beyond your wildest dreams…but what’s on my mind right now are those stories where you take a big risk and fall on your ass and maybe there’s nobody there to pick you.

Petapixel has some good commentary on the Twitter account @HistoryInPics. Where it gets interesting is when The Atlantic asks about sourcing. Xavier Di Petta, one of the entrepreneurial teens behind the account, says all the images they use are public domain, but even a cursory Google image search turns up some copyrighted images. (Including, quite possibly, their cover image of JFK, a pretty terrible crop of a well-known work by celebrated portrait photographer Arnold Newman.

Alex Kessinger is turning ADN into a comment system called Comet. I’ve been waiting for this shoe to drop for awhile. Some of the Tent.io users started working on a similar idea ages ago. Frankly, Disqus is very good. I get almost no spam comments and very few d-bags. Nearly every comment is constructive and informative. Tying people to a profile, email or public personality seems to make them behave like humans.