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Hi thanks! I tried Omnivore a while back and found it great for the 'Read-it-Later' functionality. I also remember it having an awesome TTS. However, from my understanding, it doesn't offer the Highlights Review & spaced repetition capabilities that drew me to Readwise as a Highlights Manager-actually, I haven't found this feature in any other app but it's now an integral part of my system. It does get confusing because Readwise (the highlights manager) and Readwise Reader are two separate things. I wonder now if Omnivore provides a similar highlights review workflow... may be time for me to check it out again.

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Thank you so much for the kind words. It means a lot! I'll continue trying to provide valuable and thoughtful information to the best of my abilities :)

Hi! I totally get where you're coming from about Readwise seeming complicated at first. It took me a while to get used to it too, especially with the addition of their read-it-later app, Reader. The options, features, and customization available (in Reader) can be quite overwhelming. The name shared by both apps makes everything a bit more confusing. The main thing I wanted to highlight (no pun intended!) in my video was the Highlights Review feature in Readwise. Even if you prefer using Instapaper or Pocket for reading and saving articles, I think this feature is worth checking out because I haven’t found it anywhere else. It uses spaced repetition to resurface your highlights at optimal times, helping you remember and engage with the ideas you've saved. For me, this has just been HUGE in terms of interacting with my highlights in a more active way. Before trying to get the hang of Readwise I was only seeing articles or interacting with them at the document level, but doing this layered highlighting (inspired by Tiago Forte's progressive summarization technique) together with the “Highlights Review” has allowed me to see connections between individual ideas from different sources that I might not have noticed otherwise. In a way Readwise is a tool that has allowed me to take distilling to a level I just couldn’t before. It has also allowed me to interact with notes or highlights that would otherwise would have just stayed untouched or forgotten inside Bear. Of course, everyone's workflow is different, and what works for me might not be the best fit for you. If you do decide to give Readwise another try, I'd suggest focusing on the Highlights Review and seeing if it adds value to your PKM process. And if not, no worries - stick with what works for you! Thanks again for watching and for sharing your thoughts. I really appreciate the feedback and the opportunity to discuss this stuff!

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I found it. Keystroke Pro

The app does have one area to assign functions to "Generic Devices" but I haven't tested with any myself. I suggest you check out the trial.

For the most part I'm only using the "c" keyword to send stuff to my "inbox" note and the keyboard shortcut to make a new note. These days (which is about a year after this video) most of my highlighting and capturing from different sources is done in Reader/Readwise so I don't really use all of the other keyboard shortcuts available in the Alfred workflow. Still, I left them there to give some flexibility and customization options to the users. If you need them feel free to set them up to whatever is easy to remember (and whatever is available in your system).

Happy to know it's helpful, thank you for the kind words! 🙏

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It's still there in the description. You can always get the latest update from the links in this article too: afadingthought.substack.com/p/note-taking-with-bear-and-alfred . I think I'll just pin it in a comment to make it easier to find.

Thanks man! Hope you find it useful. I use it everyday myself.

Of course! I'll be using it mainly for translations, spelling and grammar corrections, making summaries of texts and so on…@@afadingthought

Hi Melike, thank you SO MUCH for your comment. I am so happy that you find the useful and that it inspired you to pick up your One-Line-A-Day journal again! I just looked it up and I think it is-like you say-the physical version of the On This Day. I think I put together the journaling class a bit over a year ago but I have personally continued journaling every single day (I guess I don’t even think about whether I feel I want or not, it’s just sort of automatic) and it truly has been very transformative and a huge source of ideas, inspiration, expression, and personal growth. It truly puts life into perspective. These days I write about four A5 pages every morning when getting up, and two short digital entries by the end of the day. A few months ago I got myself a Midori traveler’s notebook, passport size, with the idea to jot down quick notes during the day instead of annotating on my phone, but it’s been really hard to change that habit and do tend to take more quick notes on my phone still, which inspire other journaling entries later in the day or the next day. The Midori notebook is beautiful though, I am still trying to find I some consistent use haha. I am really happy to read you, honestly some of these classes are just out there and very few times I know if they made a difference to anyone, so I really thank you for letting me know, it made my day. All the best to you and hope you continue journaling.

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There's this other video where I go more into detail on the Alfred workflow: th-cam.com/video/0HYgtd2ojIg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OF0RHSYV_4-8l1BZ

@@afadingthought Thanks, I will check it out later on today.

Hi! I haven't really updated the popclip extension shown in the video because in the end I was finding it a bit too slow. ToolVox has received a couple of updates since its release and I'm not quite sure if the extension continues to work properly or not. Here's the link: github.com/afadingthought/aft-shortcuts/blob/main/ToolVoxAIPopClip.txt ... I do not have plans to update it because I am almost done creating an Alfred workflow that is much faster, has similar functionality, and I believe it can even integrate with popclip in a better/faster/simpler way - will share soon.

Ok cool ! Can you then make a video about your new workflow with Alfred (btw we need to buy Alfred package to be able to use your workflow) @@afadingthought

@@augustewolfromm8231 yeah I do plan to make a video where I go over it in detail. ToolVox is still great for iOS, but for some reason it's too feature heavy for Mac OS and is a bit slow there (still not so hard to customize with 3rd party apps though some AppleScript). I believe the Alfred workflow will require the pro pack.

I have an Inbox tag becuase I think the GTD overall workflow is very intuitive for me and helps me a lot with being organized without being overwhelmed. My Inbox tag is just like a "bucket" where I pour whatever I need temporarily. If it's just a sentence, an idea, some words, a phrase or quote... something short... then it goes to my Inbox tag to my Inbox titled note. If it's something that starts to grow bigger, like if I'm gathering already information on topics or something I'm interested in in a note, then that will go in a separate note also in under my inbox tag. But it's meant to be temporary. If in my weekly review I decide to make these notes or ideas into projects then I'll just move them out, or maybe I'll just make them a separate note and archive them, or maybe I'll just delete them. But yeah, without an inbox tag I'd be all over the place.

One thing I'm trying to figure out in BEAR NOTES is: how do you take a resource that is tagged as a project also and archive the project but not the resource? @@afadingthought

Archives are the most valuable thing in PARA because they contain all your successful projects of the past. They serve as blueprints for similar projects in the present/future. So how do you keep every note you used for a project in archives (even though it may contain resources notes that you want to return to the resources tag? @@afadingthought

Thank you so much! 🙏

You guys created something great! Happy to spread the word and happy to have this NocFree Lite with me 😁

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It’s Eleven Labs voice cloning. All of what you hear (without my face) was actually typed and the voice reads it aloud. I just tried it out for like $1 the first month. It messes up with my accent though.?I think I’ll wait a bit and may later try their professional voice cloning which is supposed to be much better.

you did a good job overall, and I liked the video... sometimes when we saw your face... the audio didnt match up with your mouth... but overall its a good job!

Thanks! :)

Sometimes it makes my accent almost disappear, and in some other places it exaggerates it. I guess that’s because I’m using the cheap version haha. But hey, I think it-kind of-works and saved me lots of time :)

@@afadingthought Yeah, it took me about halfway through to even realize it. I thought maybe doing VO you were focusing more on trying to limit your accent till I heard a couple times it popped back in and felt the tiniest bit AI driven. It's pretty amazing what tech can do now.

Hi! Thanks for letting me know! I am assuming you are on Sonoma? Seems like Sonoma introduced a few new bugs with the Shortcuts app. I went ahead and tested everything (downloaded and reset everything) and it works as it should... but noticed the setup of the main Shortcut was somehow missing, so I've updated the main ToolVox AI Shortcut in the original article with it (afadingthought.substack.com/p/toolvox-gpt-one-shortcut-to-rule). Without this, the "bookmarks" feature was probably not working. A Sonoma bug is that this new folder selection path during the setup doesn't seem to sync well between iOS and MacOS... so, if you set the shortcut up in iOS and then you run it in Mac you may need to go in there and tap the folder and select it the first time for it to run well. No issues after that (i.imgur.com/fMnmtqV.jpg). But this doesn’t address the Eleven Labs issue because I don’t see it on my side. If you want to help me fix this I’ve created a “debugging” version of the shortcut where I’ve added a small popup alert after you try to use the ElevenLabs integration. This should tell you if Eleven Labs is returning any error: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3b0297ad248147e4beb7db1adf24222 Is Eleven Labs the only thing not working well on Desktop for you? It’s odd that it’s working on iOS but not Desktop. It means you got all the settings, API, and voice ID correctly set up. The only thing I can think of is that it could be something related to permissions or with your Eleven Labs account itself. Maybe try to download and run the main shortcut on Mac on instead of iOS? (Re-downloading the setup shortcut should not be necessary). Sorry if I can’t be of much help, but running the debugging shortcut I mentioned above should give us some clues.

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Hi! You have to follow the link in the description and from the article download the Setup Shortcut which you run before the main shortcut (you only need to run it once or after you do any changes). In the Setup Shortcut there's this field for your API token. i.imgur.com/rPPMLnk.jpg That's actually the only one required field for ToolVox to work - though you can customize a lot more of the features and functionality within the Setup Shortcut (there's comments in there to guide the user).

Is it one of those notes marked with the conflict symbol? If so, I believe it’s a bug (or a limitation) of Bear itself. It has to do with background sync. It gives me the impression that if you add text to a note with one of their shortcut actions, the text itself only gets added until the app is opened. So if you use the shortcut to add text on iPhone and go to your Mac the text won’t appear there. Then if you add some more text in your Mac you’ll have a conflicted (duplicate) note as soon as you open Bear on iPhone. Have tried reporting it and have also seen people mentioning it in Reddit.

I answered this to someone else: Yes, it is absolutely possible. You need to dive into the Shortcut itself. Like in this image: i.imgur.com/BNwlOXp.jpg The 'current date' option has formatting options and can also show the time. But you'll have to do it for every option that you need below the "if SC Input begins with..." Just to give you an idea, the ∞c∞ means capture, ∞cp∞ means capture in popup, ∞cn∞ means capture in new note, ∞cpn∞ means capture in popup new note... the same applies to the ones with ∞s∞ that are lower in the Shortcut (the ∞s∞ means capture selection, ∞sp∞ capture selection in popup... and so on). Hope this helps!

Hi! Yes, it is absolutely possible. You need to dive into the Shortcut itself. Like in this image: i.imgur.com/BNwlOXp.jpg The 'current date' option has formatting options and can also show the time. But you'll have to do it for every option that you need below the "if SC Input begins with..." Just to give you an idea, the ∞c∞ means capture, ∞cp∞ means capture in popup, ∞cn∞ means capture in new note, ∞cpn∞ means capture in popup new note... the same applies to the ones with ∞s∞ that are lower in the Shortcut (the ∞s∞ means capture selection, ∞sp∞ capture selection in popup... and so on). Hope this helps!