Blog posts for March 2026

I know it’s only February! But this will be the only one, so let’s squeeze it into next month.

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I’ve been trying to work out something similar for myself, partly to keep track, and partly because where I work requires logging hours and when I get around to doing so, I forget what I’ve done.

My throughts and processes aren’t really organized well in JD yet, I end up scratching a bunch of notes into my daily note in Obsidian, making sure to link to projects or split things out into new notes where relevant

So, to take advantage of this, I decided to just do a sort of check-in / check-out thing right in my daily note. I made a template and shortcut key to paste it of the form - [t] {{time}} (The - [t] part has a custom CSS associated to show a little stopwatch icon). I paste that, add a link to the project, and type out a short description of what I’m working on, like this:
-[t] 12:00 [[My Project]] Working on the outline

When it’s time to check-out of the task, I have a different template shortcut which pastes - {{time}} which I paste directly after the clock-in time, so I end up with something that looks like
-[t] 12:00 - 12:45 [[My Project]] Working on the outline

In the “My Project” note, I get linked mentions like this:

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I also installed the Day Planner plugin, not for planning, but for review, and I get an overview that looks like this, which really helps in my daily review to figure out gaps and if there’s anything I’ve missed.

Ooooh that’s nice with the Day Planner view!

Nine times, Mrs. Bueller. Nine times.

I have a problem with your blog. Every time I read to the bottom of the page, I click on what I think is the next article but it goes to an older one. I always select the link on the right, thinking that it’s next. Is it natural for you to have it on the left? It might be a regional thing, I just don’t know.

I’ve concluded long ago that it’s an ideosyncratic thing. Every blog creator does it differently, and the distribution is apparently random.

Now that you say it, yeah, I agree. They’re the wrong way round!

Site re-write is well underway. I’ll correct this.

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