What are you guys doing right NOW??? ;)

[J. A.]

Watching the first episode of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”.

 

[scifan57]

Watching the first episode of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”.

Have you watched the original Carl Sagan Cosmos series?

 

[J. A.]

Have you watched the original Carl Sagan Cosmos series?

Sure.
When I watched it as a kid, it started my fascination for the universe and science. A few years ago, I found it in English, and watched it again. I’ve always loved the series.

 

[twerppoet]

Just finished cleaning out my email inbox. It’s been so long since I’ve seen this screen; inbox zero looks rather disturbing in Mail.

Addendum: Fortunately, or not, it only lasted about 15 minutes.

 

[J. A.]

Watching a concert with Vienna’s Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor John Williams, on tv.

 

[J. A.]

Updating my Apple Watch to watchOS 6.2.6, and my iPhone XS Max and iPad Pro to iOS/iPadOS 13.5.1.

 

[scifan57]

Updating my iPhone XS to iOS 13.5.5 Developer beta.

 

[J. A.]

Updating my iPad Pro to iPadOS 13.5.5 Public Beta.

 

[J. A.]

Updating my iPad Pro to iPadOS 13.6 Public Beta 2.

 

[J. A.]

Updating my iPad Pro to iPadOS 14 Public Beta 2.

 

[scifan57]

Waiting downtown for a bus ride home.

 

[twerppoet]

Ok, I’m going to brag, sort of.

I’m using the Files and Documents app along with some self made shortcuts to take scanned images of old meeting minutes, convert them to text, and then clean up formatting. Not all automated, but better than typing it all in by hand. Well, I still have to hand type the handwritten documents. OCR isn’t that good, yet.

One shortcut, used in Files, take’s the selected PDF file, extracts the image/scan and converts it to text, then saves that text in a new file of the same name with the .txt suffix.

The other shortcut, used in Documents text editor, takes the selected text and replaces all the new line’s with spaces. This makes all the selected text into a single paragraph. Still have to manually paste the text back after the shortcut, but a huge time savings from deleting all the extra new lines manually.

The screenshot is heavily redacted, for the Mueller Report esthetic.

 

[scifan57]

Ok, I’m going to brag, sort of.

I’m using the Files and Documents app along with some self made shortcuts to take scanned images of old meeting minutes, convert them to text, and then clean up formatting. Not all automated, but better than typing it all in by hand. Well, I still have to hand type the handwritten documents. OCR isn’t that good, yet.

One shortcut, used in Files, take’s the selected PDF file, extracts the image/scan and converts it to text, then saves that text in a new file of the same name with the .txt suffix.

The other shortcut, used in Documents text editor, takes the selected text and replaces all the new line’s with spaces. This makes all the selected text into a single paragraph. Still have to manually paste the text back after the shortcut, but a huge time savings from deleting all the extra new lines manually.

The screenshot is heavily redacted, for the Mueller Report esthetic.


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[J. A.]

Updating my iPad Pro to iPadOS 14 Public Beta 3.

 

[twerppoet]

Nice. I’m only risking my iPad Mini on the public betas. Since I primarily use it for handwritten notes (in Notes) the new scribble features were too much temptation.

Guess I’ll update now.