Meaning and Magic

Tag: programming

  • More about how I’ve been memorizing quotations

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    As I already mentioned, I’ve been working on memorizing some of my favorite quotations. One of the main motivations for this project was to play around with spaced repetition software. I’d heard of SuperMemo a while ago, probably from the Wired article, and I was definitely intrigued, really glad that Peter Wozniak had done all…

  • OS X Service for memorizing verbatim text

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    First_Letters.workflow.zip Download this file Lately I’ve been somewhat into memorizing some of my favorite quotations from books. The most effective method I’ve found for doing so has been converting each word of whatever text I’m trying to memorize to just the first letter, and trying to reconstruct the passage from that. Here’s the theory behind…

  • Using Quicksilver and Applescript to Keep a Stack of Safari URLs

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    My friend posted this question on Hacker News. I answered: If you’re on a Mac and you’re using Safari you might like Urly (http://www.zenonez.com/urly/news.html). It lets you make a pretty basic stack of browser links. If you don’t like that (and you’re a Quicksilver user), it might be worth writing some Quicksilver triggers to push…