As disappointingly forecast in my previous post, the missing AirPod has reappeared. It reappeared from the back of my bedside table on the 15th Jan, nine days after my £76 replacement had arrived, very efficiently, from Apple. I now have a spare left hand AirPod, I am not sure what to do with it - creative ideas...

I wrote some time ago about the benefits of wired headphones, including the fairly obvious fact that they are harder to lose. Well, I bought some AirPods 4 NC and had been getting along fine until I was on holiday over the Christmas period, opened the case and found the left AirPod missing. Find my stuff says it is at...

I’m about 2 months into my apple watch experiment, and to be honest, I’m not wearing it now. I haven’t worn it on a daily basis for a few weeks. It is upstairs, on my bedside cabinet happily charging away. To start with I really enjoyed wearing it, the technology seemed great, notifications were handy and even though I...

One of the apple products I have never owned is an Apple Watch, I was recently offered a spare watch by my parents so I thought I would give it a go. I have always wondered if it would be useful or a bit of another kit that makes more demands on my time and attention - another thing to charge! There are a few things...

I use a shortcut to add to my daily note in apple notes all the time. Lets me capture my thoughts, lists and things my brain is bound to forget. The shortcut asks for input and then adds this to the bottom of a daily note in the notes folder. I have set the title to be the date in ‘241005 Sat 05 Oct’ format – the first...

update: this is no longer required as the 1.11 mobile update to obsidian allows a direct shortcut to be created. This is a simple shortcut that will ask for some content and push it into the bottom of your daily note. If the daily note doesn’t exist it will create it. Note: You will need to install the advanced-uri...