I’m looking forward to this episode of MPU, as it’s timely for me: I started playing around with Craft a bit just to see what this Mac-centric, Notion-like PKM works. Some quick observations:

• support for wikilinks: unlike the emerging standard of using double brackets to link to an existing file, Craft uses the “@” character to show a pick list of links, or offers to create a new file. Bonus: hovering over linked Craft notes in a document shows a preview window
• “Focus Mode” isn’t the same as macOS’s full-screen mode; you can still see the menu and title bars. Another bonus: Focus mode, like just about everything else with Craft, works great on iPadOS.

Craft Preview of a Link on Hover

I’ve been trying Craft out as a repository for college visit information for my oldest son, and I started using it for work a bit today during a presentation. One of the things that I liked most about the wikilink angle was that, during the training today, it was easy to spin off a definition of a term or a legal case into a separate document, kind of a Zettle. This aspect of Craft is very Obsidian-like, but the experience is pure macOS (and the iOS derivatives are similarly joyful to use). And you can link to text blocks in the document you’re working in, or other documents.

#650: Craft Deep Drive

Classic Zippo to light the grill. Nothing worse than those plastic sealed grill lighters giving up the ghost without warning.

I find, weekly, sick deals on books I either want to read or discover on Book Bub. Usually USD 1.99. This week’s find: Made in America by Bill Bryson.

Bryson was featured prominently in A Common Reader, one of the best book resellers ever, with a (paper) catalog that was worth reading all by itself. I suspect they fell to Amazon.

Via Medium’s Coach Tony, a link to a New York Times article on decision fatigue:

Willpower turned out to be more than a folk concept or a metaphor. It really was a form of mental energy that could be exhausted. The experiments confirmed the 19th-century notion of willpower being like a muscle that was fatigued with use, a force that could be conserved by avoiding temptation.

This topic isn’t new, but I find the notion of mental energy and the finite store of it for people who must make decisions to be an evergreen topic. The case study mentioned at the beginning, whereby people were granted or denied probation purely due to time of day, is fascinating–and cautionary.

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?