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Tuesday, March 17, 2026 →
@johnbrayton What a great idea! With a little help from Claude, I created a nifty Apple Shortcut that transforms any text I select in an Unread article to a perfectly formatted markdown link with the selected text shown as a blockquote. All with a single keyboard command. Here’s a sample from Westenberg:
A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age:
> I don’t entirely believe AI will produce the civilizational wipeout the doomers are predicting. I think there’s reasonably good odds the economy will find equilibrium, the way it always does after major technological shifts. New industries will emerge. New forms of work will appear. People will adapt, because people always adapt.
Kudos for building in this capability!
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 →
@frankm I’ve been testing Inkwell as well, but I’m scratching my head on how it could work for me. I prefer to read articles on an iPad in a full-page, distraction-free mode. I use Unread as my RSS reader and have been hopping around with various read-later apps (Readwise, Matter, Goodlinks) for longer reads and articles I want to highlight. The best workflow I’ve found is with Instapaper. Any highlights can be copied or exported, with a properly formatted Markdown link to the original article, in a couple of taps.
I’m sure Readwise Reader can do this, but I couldn’t figure it out, which is one of my gripes with that overly complicated tool.
I’m hoping that @johnbrayton someday adds highlight capture to Unread with a share feature that copies the highlight and link for blogging.
Monday, March 16, 2026 →
@cliff538 You have an amazing eye! I love every single image you post. So creative! Your photography is a gift to all of us. Thank you for sharing it.
Thursday, March 12, 2026 →
@cliff538 Ah, what a view and what a book! Enjoy!
Thursday, March 12, 2026 →
@johnbrayton Thank you for all your amazing work on Unread. I recently tested the web page transformation capabilities of various read-it-later apps (Readwise Reader, Instapaper, Matter, Goodlinks, etc.). Most do fine for basic web pages, but none are as good as Unread with more complicated elements. You’ve figured out how to render footnotes, tables, and block quotes better than anyone. Well done, sir!
Friday, March 6, 2026 →
@philbowell Nice work! I do wish Micro.blog would let you click a book cover on your shelf to take you to your review instead of the generic book information page. I do this on my Wordpress book blog, but I could never figure out how to get this to work on Micro.blog.
Thursday, February 26, 2026 →
@jthingelstad Ah, good luck! I was one of the unlucky ones. Two days of flu like symptoms. Still worth it!
Monday, February 23, 2026 →
@MereCivilian What a great set up! Love it!
Monday, February 23, 2026 →
@danielpunkass Nope. After entering my credentials, it opens the NYT app, but never gets past the login screen in Black Ink. I suspect having the NYT app installed on my iPad is the problem.
Friday, February 20, 2026 →
@danielpunkass Love a daily crossword! When I link my NYT account on the iPad app, it hangs on the log-in screen. I’d love to check this out!
Friday, February 13, 2026 →
@isaacgreene I loved this one too!
Thursday, February 12, 2026 →
@rscottjones Whoa! Not a fun experience! But I’m so glad to hear the outcome.
“Take it that you have died today, and your life’s story is ended; and henceforward regard what further time may be given you as an uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.” — Marcus Aurelius
Go travel, my friend!
Thursday, February 12, 2026 →
@davoh I love these shelfies you share. I can only imagine the range of conversations you must be having. Your students are very lucky to have such an engaged, well-read professor!
Friday, February 6, 2026 →
@cliff538 I loved this one so much! Claire Keegan is an amazing writer.
Monday, February 2, 2026 →
@cheesemaker Right?! Claire Keegan is amazing!
Sunday, January 18, 2026 →
@terrygrier.bsky.social Love this! I wish I were closer to join!
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 →
@GabrielCornish Ah, this is so hard. We lost our 12-year-old Boston Terrier this past week. Such a big hole they leave.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 →
@joshuapsteele I went down the notebook rabbit hole last year after hearing a podcaster describe how he loved his Plotter notebook. I tried the Plotter (too fussy), the Traveler’s Notebook (too lumpy and wouldn’t lay flat), the Lochby FIeld Folio (the metal clasp kept thunking every time I opened it), Field Notes (too small), only to return to the notebook I’ve used consistently for the past five years (the Scribbles That Matter B5). The wide variety of notebooks available makes this a personal choice. One of the fundamental choices you have to make between your Leuchtturm and the Lochby is whether you’re a Lumper or Splitter. @annahavron writes a wonderful Analog Office blog that helped me navigate what worked best for me. I’m a proud lumper!
Sunday, January 4, 2026 →
@Eyebeemania I’ve definitely enjoyed the first two volumes of Manchester’s biography of Churchill. I haven’t read the Roy Jenkins one though, so I can’t compare. Might be a Churchill overload to read both (if that’s possible!).
Sunday, January 4, 2026 →
@cliff538 Ah, you have a wonderful journey ahead of you!
Friday, January 2, 2026 →
@bradleyandroos Ah, thank you. I love that quote too. I heard it on the How I Write podcast, which is also an excellent source of ideas for creative writing and blogging.