Daily Notes for 2023-05-03

A Ruby/CLI-based plaintext PRM, Robert DeNiro on exporting org-mode to JSON, blogging with ox-hugo, that Royal Enfield Himalayan

May 3, 2023 · 6 min · 1209 words · Mike Hall

Finding an org-contact record's emails in MailMate and events in Google Calendar

Looking up email histories and past Google Calendar events from org-contacts, and a few ideas about how to schedule time with people.

May 2, 2023 · 3 min · 462 words · Mike Hall

Were you to attempt something like this in AppleScript

I started down the path of building some sort of PRM in org-mode because I couldn’t find anything that worked the way I wanted. I did briefly look at Apple’s Contacts app, and also at Cardhop, which builds on top of your Contacts database but still makes some assumptions about how good you are at all at remembering to reach out to people. I also looked at Monica, an open source PRM. The promising part of Monica is its API. The web UI itself shows comprehensive data for each contact, but does not do anything in the way of bulk editing and has no automation at all. It’s laborious to bootstrap. ...

April 27, 2023 · 10 min · 2108 words · Mike Hall