Hiro.Report - 23JUL2023
Hiro.Report - 23JUL23
I hope everyone had a fun week and weekend! Here are a few noteworthy things from this week.
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🚀 2400 - From its founder, "2400 is lo-fi sci-fi. It's centuries in the future, and it's a decades-old modem that screams like a dying robot when it connects to the net. It's a space ship with an FTL drive, and a flickering display you gotta tap a few times to see the jump coordinates. [...] 2400 is short and sweet. In the time it took you to read all this, you could've started playing." I stumbled across 2400 on Mastodon when the author, Jason Tocci, put up a couple thousand free "community copies" of the game on Itch. It looks to be a RPG rulebook and a whole bunch of mini scenarios for playing quick sci-fi encounters with friends. I've not gotten to play it yet, but I love the aesthetic, and it looks like a great time. Right up my alley.
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🛵 2x2 SE Peak Design - Good lord, this is one of those things that you look at and immediately check your bank account to see if, just if, you could maybe, possibly impulse buy it. (Dear Reader, I could not.) Ubco makes this stunningly gorgeous electric adventure bike, the 2x2, and now they've got a collaboration with the incredible team at Peak Design (makers of one of my favorite bags ever)? Yikes. Dangerous territory.
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😊 Very Necessary Emojis and Very Necessary Reactions - A couple of folks mentioned these apps this week as fun iOS sticker packs with a very simple premise: offering you the emoji and message reactions that iOS really SHOULD have but doesn't (yet). $2 each, worth it to me to have the Chef's Kiss emoji, and to be able to add "WTF?" or "OMG!" as a reaction on incoming messages.
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🎧 Endel - I've been using Endel for the past couple of years as background music/noise for work, meditation, chores... basically anytime I want to get in to the "zone." I'm definitely not a daily user, but I use it quite a lot and am just always impressed by how it winds up being way more pleasant than white noise, while also not being as distracting as putting on even lo-fi beats-type playlists. What I didn't realize until this week, is that it uses some black magic to sync the music to the weather, your heart rate (if you've got an Apple Watch on), and your step cadence if you're walking. I was out doing a meditation walk one afternoon this week when I had the realization that it was playing perfectly in sync with my steps. When I got home, I looked it up and realized that it uses all kinds of cool data on device to create your soundscape. I guess I knew that way back when I signed up years ago but forgot. Anyway, big fan. This is not sponsored, however, I am sharing an invite link in case you want to try it out for 2 weeks for free. (I don't think I get any kick back or incentive for someone using that link, as it's a pretty generic-looking invite code. But if you use it and I suddenly become wildly rich because of it, I'll buy you a tea or beer.)
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🗒️ Daily Notes Shortcut - OK, this is pretty niche, but for those who need it, it's pretty awesome. I regularly journal and have been wanting a way to quickly add notes to a journal entry for the day without having to open up my journal app, find or create the entry for the day, and type it out. So, after some poking around, I found this Drafts Forum Post about someone looking for a similar capability. Lo and behold, the community came through with this iOS shortcut that lets you automatically create or amend the day's entry and dictate whatever note you want to add to the entry. Drafts is an essential text / note keeping app for me, so it immediately jumped out as the perfect solution. This way, as noteworthy things happen through the day, I can just call up this shortcut, tell Siri my thought, and it gets added to my Daily Notes entry for the day. At the end of the day, I hit a button and it exports the entry from Drafts to my journal in Day One, I can add any photos I've taken that day, and I'm done. No more spending 20-30 minutes each night writing up my sometimes hazy recollection of the day.
That’s all I’ve got this week. Do you have a system you are liking that it even more efficient for journaling or daily noting on the go? Would love more ideas.
Have a great week!