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Same, except I append to the bottom of an Apple note.

(I append, the author's really prepending. Anyway...)

When the note gets too long, I cut and paste it to what I call the big note: a 127000-line, 4.9 MB text file I've been maintaining for 14 years.

Trivially searchable, can get context from neighboring notes (What else was happening around this time?), and easily parsable when necessary.


[Reviews current note...] Oh, I do both! - Prepend todos to the top, append notes at the bottom.


Just updated the pricing details - You can get all of year's photos for $5.


I've clarified this on the site now. It’s $5 for each year of images you want to download. For example, you can find and save all your photos from 2004 or 2010 (or any year) for $5.


Thanks! Yahoo’s next after Gmail.


Fastmail’s on my list, but it'll be a while before I get to it since it has fewer users than Gmail and others.


Thank you!


"Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life" by Rory Sutherland

Explains why we choose brands over cheaper alternatives, why we're willing to pay a lot more to lock in a deal, why we hate registering before buying the thing (but are more than happy to do so right after), why Sony removed the record button from the first Walkman, and much more.

This book forever changed the way I think about brands, and improved my design and problem-solving skills.

A couple of Rory's rules:

• The opposite of a good idea can also be a good idea.

• Test counterintuitive things only because no one else will.

A couple of "mind games" from the book:

• Merely adding a geographical or topographical adjective to food – whether on a menu in a restaurant or on packaging in a supermarket – allows you to charge more for it and means you will sell more.

• "There's your problem," I said. "It doesn't matter what something tastes like in blind tastings, if you put 'low in fat' or any other health indicators on the packaging, you'll make the contents taste worse."

https://bookshop.org/books/alchemy-the-dark-art-and-curious-...


Thank you for posting a bookshop.org link


Whats special about that site if you dont mind my asking?


Bookshop.com sells books from independent book stores and gives the profits of the sales to your local store: https://bookshop.org/pages/about


The food rule works for anything, but Detroit. https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2774


Detroit-style deep dish is the best style of pizza, and nothing else is in the same league.


It actually works for a lot of stuff even if it's not food. Chrysler's "Corinthian leather" marketing comes to mind.


'Preciate it!


Thanks!


I'll increase the clickable area of the links. That may fix this.


Seems I may have taken the minimal aesthetic too far :)


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