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I do remember solving this ones for my old theme but I don’t remember what the root cause and solution was. 😞
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Here’s some thought I wrote down for myself late yesterday.
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The first problem I encountered seemed to stem from a sloppy physical installation of the camera. Once I removed it from the Pi and inserted it back in, it worked.
The second problem seems to be that by default the camera cropped the sensor data, so the QR code couldn’t be read as close to the camera as I wanted. Adding --prescale=640x480 as and argument to zbarcam appears to have solved the problem.
Tomorrow I’ll try using the HiFi Berry Amp2 as well.
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So no, there won’t be a finished vlog this time but is was fun to try.
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Incredibly useful! ffmpeg and a bit of command line experience is super useful when dealing with video.
@MrHenko Also, using the -to parameter to set a timecode for the outpoint instead of -t to set a duration makes it even better.
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But then again, fiddling with the tools is hard to do and I’m good at it so it is at least part of the reason why I get paid for doing this.
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One of my projects at work today has been to make this, a system for playing back a recording of a ukulele through a surface transducer and then have it use an actual ukulele as a resonance cavity.
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This will come in handy!
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🎧 Listened to: Cortex #33: Cortek
I’ve been taken a lot of notes lately, for my masters studies. I take notes in class and, most importantly, I highlight passages in the books I read and also take notes around the reading. Some of those notes relates directly to the highlighted passages, other notes are more general thoughts as I’m trying to work things out.
As I was reading, highlighting and writing last week I realised that over the course of two years these notes and highlights would grow to a big mess of assorted thoughts that I could never have any hope of organising in my final thesis, or any written exams either for that matter. So I need a better system.
I recalled having heard one or more podcasts where CGP Grey talked about how he handled similar tasks around his research for videos so I googled and found this old episode of Cortex. Around the 44:00 marker he describes his main workflow. Here’s the gist of it
Read ebooks -> Highlight passages -> When done, screen shot the pages with highlights -> import screenshots into Evernote -> Make notes in Evernote
I need to do something similar, but two things
Grey (and Myke) was already upset with Evernote when makes this podcast (in July 2016) and in later episodes that has been mentioned again and again, so it seems like it would be dumb to actually start taking these kind of notes in Evernote today.
So basically what I need is
I’m thinking of maybe some kind of combination of Microsoft OfficeLens for the scan and Apple Notes for everything else, or maybe just Microsoft OneNote for the whole thing. Or maybe save the notes as flat text files (preferably in Dropbox or iCloud Drive) together with PDF scans from something like OfficeLens. In this later case I might not need the OCR on the phone since instead I can use PDFPen on my Mac.
What do you think? Any suggestions?
@MrHenko I cannot be certain, but I seem to recall the Dropbox will ocr a pdf for you. And there are any number of iPhone apps that will create a pdf from a page. I use Tinyscan. For the notes, I would use plaintext and some kind of Zettelkasten. Their app The Archive is good.
@MrHenko I use Scanbot (iOS) to capture any snippets from books I want to remember, use the results from Scanbot’s OCR to import into Day One where I’m able to add tags and context (date, location, the image itself, etc.). Pretty easy workflow, and ends up being a beautiful digital commonplace journal.
@vasta That’s an interesting approach. What happens when you decide to stop subscribing to Day One?
@jeremycherfas Thanks, I’ll look into Zettelkasten and The Archive app.
I did a quick googling about the Drobox ocr and it seems to be a Dropbox Business only feature and as of right now I’m not a Business customer.
@vasta Thanks, I’ll look into Scanbot!
@MrHenko Sorry if I misled you on Dropbox. It was just a vague memory. I’ll be interested to watch how your note-taking develops.
@jeremycherfas Oh, no need to be sorry. I don’t see that as misleading me in anyway. I appreciate all suggestions.
Glad to hear that you’re keen on my results. I’ll keep you – and the rest of the web – up to date.
@jeremycherfas Also, you are very quick with your replies today. Are you procrastinating actual work as hard as I am? :)
@jeremycherfas That’s a really good question, one I haven’t consciously thought about enough. Right now, I back up my Day One entries in various places, but I think I should probably do better at ensuring the longevity of the commonplace archive. Thanks for the prod to do that!
@MrHenko I certainly was this morning. Enjoying a bit of free time in the city, and so doing what everyone on public transport does and reading my phone.
@vasta I know that when I exported my entries from Day One Classic I was very disappointed by the attached photographs and how they were “attached”.
@vasta @jeremycherfas I have been burnt once when I lost the Day One extries. Since then, I have made it a point that everything I write exists as plain files first (mostly markdown) at multiple places.
@amit I’m the same. But although I have searched, I have not yet found an open-source solution — that is one where I can keep a hold of my data — that is either as easy to use or as pretty to look at as Day One.
@amit @jeremycherfas Thank you for the words of caution. I shall spend some time this weekend exploring my options.
@vasta That sounds pretty great. 📚
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