January 2019 – nahumck.me

#ShotOniPhone Shortcut

Today, Greg Pierce posted a tweet about the new #ShotOniPhone Challenge:

My favorite part of this #ShotOniPhone contest announcement is the specification of a file naming convention.

I bet less than 0.1% of iPhone owners know how to save a photo as a file, rename it, and attach the renamed version to an email.https://t.co/1DOwvaOjvh pic.twitter.com/7C0Yh5xxlz

— Greg Pierce (@agiletortoise) January 24, 2019

Rene Ritchie followed up with this tweet:

#ShotOniPhone #RenamedOnMac

— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) January 24, 2019

And my reply:

#ShotOniPhone #RenamedViaShortcuts

— Tim Nahumck (@nahumck) January 24, 2019

When I first saw Rene’s tweet, I knew he was being snarky. However, my first thought went to Shortcuts when I saw it (hence my tweet). Renaming of files on iOS is a perfect use case of Shortcuts. But rather than stop at just simply renaming a file, it’s possible to submit the entry all with a couple of taps on iOS. And now that I’ve said that you can do it with Shortcuts, I figured I should make one if I’m going to put out the thought. So, with a little bit of work, I created the #ShotOniPhone shortcut.
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Drafts 5.6

Last week, Drafts released version 5.6. While it is not as big as some of the other releases before it, it does bring some important enhancements to the app.
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Tactical Bag

For a while now, I’ve had the same backpack. It’s been my trusted bag for everything: work, travel, day tripping, etc. It carries everything I could think about needing and then some. But with some changes in my needs, I started realizing that for some situations – like going to my 3rd office that is known as Chipotle – it’s way more than I need. I need something smaller on the weekends when I’m not lugging my work laptop around.¹

I needed something smaller, compact, focused. I needed a tactical bag.
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