Last week, I released an update which introduced a calendar view to the Word Counter where users could look at their past achievements. I call this calendar view the History. There’s a lot of stuff on the roadmap still. The History is useful, but still pretty basic. I want to add analysis features. At the moment, users can look at the amount of words they write each day. But they have to find out if a day was only a good day or if it was an excellent day themselves. The Word Counter will soon help users with this, offering comparisons, calculating the mean, and helping users reach their daily goals.

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For about two years now I still use Brett Terpstra’s gitlogger to store my daily git activity in Day One. As of late, it ceased to run properly. Turns out some messages to log contain fancy characters like real apostrophes, ’. To fix this, add the following statement to the launchd configuration script:

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This year, I read Justice for Hedgehogs¹ by Ronald Dworkin. In philosophy, ethics was always my favorite topic. In fact, I always was into most of the topics of practical philosophy. I heard about the book a few times already and I thought it’d be great to extract knowledge from a contemporary author’s work for my Zettelkasten. Also, people said Dworkin is kind of resurrecting a Socratic take on morality, so I was intrigued from the start.

These are the posts so far in chronological order:

• I create a plan and read the book: skim for basic understanding first, take Zettel notes from your first findings, then read selectively for deeper understanding.
• After skimming the book, I create topic clusters and prepare the project.

Still want to join? Tell me about your book of choice and add a link to your blog so I can mention you here!