Author: Scout
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Freewrite to Bear 🐻 2.0 sync via Shortcuts
Sharing this here simply because I couldn’t find out how to do this elsewhere. I have a typewriter (a Freewrite 2nd Gen) that sends some files to a Dropbox folder (‘C’). I wanted those files to sync with Bear, which is where I’m keeping all my notes this year. I’ve set Hazel up to watch…
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Ryan Rumery site 🚀 — and making bespoke Squarespace sites
Ryan Rumery is a composer for film, television, and podcasts. His music is regularly heard on “This American Life” and in the film Food and Country, premiering at Sundance 2023. He is a 2017 alumnus of the Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab: Documentary, and is also a music producer, music editor, and recording…
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Bye-a, Scout
I’ve been spending the last half-year laying the groundwork to replace Hiya, Scout with two new businesses, one centered around website making (and navigating the new frontiers of WordPress) and one centered around print design (book publishing in particular). I’ll be haphazardly soft-launching those sites in the coming weeks. Imperfectly. The cobbler’s kid has no…
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The LA River is real
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Bartlett’s Apocrypha
My alarm bells go off whenever I see a viral quotation on the socials. An influencer might share that misattributed Marianne Williamson quote as a Nelson Mandela quote (pictured), or a pundit might share a memed WWII general’s anachronistic thoughts on “the evil of political correctness.” One going around this week that seems to have…
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Repairing a Remarkable 2’s stuck button
A lot of my planning, script reading, journaling and client meetings happen on a fancy e-ink tablet I love called the Remarkable 2. I love the battery life, the size, the lack of light, and the distraction-free environment. It’s such a boring device that I forget it’s there, and what I’m actually working on takes…