Last week I posted about not having ideas. And I also posted that I was browsing through old entries in my commonplace book and that’s where I got the idea for that post. And I am still working on how to project (and later retrieve) my thoughts into various apps and note-taking systems, but the…
Author: brmitf
The No Ideas blog post
I didn’t have a blog idea this week. I thought a little bit of following up on last week, but I don’t really have much new to say on the subject. I was leafing through my notebook, a bit of a “Commonplace Book” but a little more journal-like, and found a note about reading David…
Rethinking The Heap
When it comes to organizing (whether physically or mentally), I’ve always relied on The Heap. The way it works is, when you’re looking for something, you just think back to the last time that you remember it, and it’s about that far deep in the pile. It sounds like it’s the opposite of organization, but…
Unrejectable
A great thing about a blog is that you can’t be rejected. I can write as I want, I can even be dead wrong, and can still hit “Publish.” Most likely, few if anyone will read it but it’s still out there. I hesitate to call myself an author, but… the button is labeled “Publish.”…
Posting for the sake of posting
Well, I missed one. My goal is to post at least once a week, shooting for midweek but usually later than that. I missed my personal deadline though, which is no later than midnight on Friday. Earlier, I was shooting for two posts per week, but life is far too hectic. So, I’m posting on…
Designing stuff is hard.
I’m really good at following directions. Give me a recipe, or building plans, or even just a good hard look at something along with it’s dimensions and I can probably build it (within my skill set, naturally). But designing something from scratch is hard. Going from a rough sketch to actual measurements and assembly methods…
This is where the self doubt comes in
Inspired by a youtuber’s analog on-the-go note-taking desk, I decided to try my hand at improving the concept. I sketched it, mocked it up for an idea of size, and then I said: you have a 3D printer, why not print the parts you need? Which I thought was a grand idea. Being neither an…
No hot glue? No, hot glue!
I had an idea for a 3D printing project. Of course, being an old-school kind of guy, almost any idea starts out as a sketch (maybe digital, maybe not), but prototypes are probably not going to be digital. Regardless of the medium, a proof of concept can be mocked-up with card stock or cardboard. Now,…
May the 4th
I wasn’t feeling well this week, so this will be very brief. I’m not really one to get all excited about phony holidays that are probably really just promotions for commercial endeavors, but this weekend is May the 4th, a.k.a. “Star Wars Day” and something jogged a very, very old memory. I was very young…
From the archives
I like to thumb through old notepads and scraps that I’ve saved with doodles and drawings. Sometimes, when a drawing hits in a certain way, I copy it into my drawing app (Krita) and recreate it digitally. I don’t have a process to save or recall these doodles, but I find it meditative to thumb…