Month: April 2024

DEVONthink

I’ve moved all of my notes and bookmarks from the Obsidian writing/knowledgebase app into the similar DEVONthink document manager.

Although I’ve known of it for years I’ve resisted DEVONthink mainly because of its cost.

Over those years I’ve spent time with Microsoft OneNote (cross-platform & web), Drafts (iOS & Mac) and Obsidian (cross-platform). But, just as for personal use I’ve previously moved from the Omnifocus task manager to pretty much everything else – and always back again – I have the feeling I should probably have trialled this when I first found it.

One of DEVONthink’s strengths is its ability to simultaneously synchronise with a number of document stores. I’m considering (if my shared web hosting plan allows) attempting to store one copy as WEBDAV, with one in a Dropbox folder.

At least there’s no appreciable lag using iCloud – opening Obsidian could take literal minutes.

And I’m collecting RSS feeds into it instead of using a dedicated reader. RSS, yeah.

Chicken soup

(Impromptu earlier, but was eventually very tasty.)

Ingredients:

  • The remains of a roasted chicken, preferably with some meat and skin left on;
  • Roasted potatoes;
  • Cooked carrots;
  • Cooked broccoli;
  • Slice of bread, white squishy;
  • Vegetable stock cube;
  • Jalapeño chilli jam (best measured from a squeezy bottle);
  • Tomato ketchup, squeezy;
  • Rosemary, from a spice pot;
  • Salt, to taste;
  • Pepper, a tiny amount.

Preparation:

  1. Boil half a pan of water in a kettle,
  2. Dump the chicken into the saucepan,
  3. Cook it to a rolling boil then let simmer for a while,
  4. When the colour of the liquid evens out then sieve the solids out from the pan over another, separate out the meat and return it and the liquid to the main pan, and discard the bones, skin & cartilage*,
  5. Add the stock cube and rosemary to the main pan and continue to simmer,
  6. Add the potato, carrots & broccoli and boil until simmering again, then then turn down the heat,
  7. Add the bread (to thicken), making sure it’s thoroughly mixed in,
  8. Add the chilli jam and ketchup, both a single circular squirt,
  9. Er…
  10. Eat!

*Tried at this point it’s a bit weak and watery, but at least it tastes of chicken.