Comfort Zone, Episode 14: That’s How I Drive My Truck

Niléane and Chris have upgraded their desk setups, but Matt didn’t get the memo and brought a hard drive or something. Then we see who can bend the rules the most to survive the challenge.

Weekly Topics

Twelve South HiRise Pro — https://www.twelvesouth.com/products/hirise-pro-for-macbook
BESIGN LSX6 Computer Holder Stand — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X2NPM8G?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
Synology DiskStation DS923+ — https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS923+

Other Stuff We Discussed

Photo of Niléane’s desk setup —
Photo of Chris’s stand —
Microsoft Remote Desktop — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-remote-desktop/id1295203466?mt=12
Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition — https://www.ageofempires.com/games/aoeiide/
Microsoft Start — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-start/id945416273
Doom — 2016 — https://bethesda.net/en/game/doom-2016
SpaceRex is a Synology guru — https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceRexWill
MONOKEI keyboards — https://monokei.co/systems
lofree Flow84 — https://www.lofree.co/products/lofree-flow-the-smoothest-mechanical-keyboard
Synology BeeStation — https://bee.synology.com/en-us/BeeStation

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Chris on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisLawley
Matt on Birchtree — https://birchtree.me/
Niléane on Mastodon — https://nileane.fr/@nileane
Comfort Zone on Mastodon — https://mastodon.macstories.net/@comfortzone

September 5, 2024

Comfort Zone, Episode 13: Celsius Has No Character

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Matt is trying to find the right temperature, Chris is floating on Air — table, and Niléane finds out if she’s feeling lucky about getting 10 blue links.

Other Stuff We Discussed

Ecobee Thermostats — https://www.ecobee.com/en-us/
Things 3 — https://culturedcode.com/things/
Notion — https://www.notion.so/
SwitchBot — https://us.switch-bot.com/

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Chris on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisLawley
Matt on Birchtree — https://birchtree.me/
Niléane on Mastodon — https://nileane.fr/@nileane
Comfort Zone on Mastodon — https://mastodon.macstories.net/@comfortzone

September 3, 2024

My Obsidian Setup: Note Taking and Writing

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Intro 00:00 But, what is a note? 00:19 Setting up your vault 2:10 Sponsor Surfshark 4:16 Folder Structure 5:37 My Theme 8:04 Note Taking 8:54 Quick Note Folder 11:06 Linking Notes 12:21 Split View and Tabs 13:15 Search 14:44 Custom Keyboard Shortcuts 16:21 Command Palette 17:13 Auto Card Link 18:11 Paste Link 18:43 Launchpad 19:27 Recent Files 20:19 Trash Explore 20:51 Templates 21:32 Daily Note 22:18 Wrap Up 23:28

August 29, 2024

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August 27, 2024

How I’m Productive on iPadOS

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Comfort Zone, Episode 12: The Statue of Liberty is Full of French People

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The gang shares their very sane, and not at all controversial 👀 notification preferences. Then they explore some new and interesting Obsidian plugins you might not have heard of.

Obsidian Plugins

– links open directly in Obsidian

Projects — obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-projects
Commander — obsidian://show-plugin?id=cmdr
Cards View — obsidian://show-plugin?id=cards-view
Image Captions — obsidian://show-plugin?id=image-captions
Paste Link — obsidian://show-plugin?id=paste-link
Home Tab — obsidian://show-plugin?id=home-tab
Trash Explorer — obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-trash-explorer

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Chris on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisLawley
Matt on Birchtree — https://birchtree.me/
Niléane on Mastodon — https://nileane.fr/@nileane
Comfort Zone on Mastodon — https://mastodon.macstories.net/@comfortzone

August 22, 2024

Comfort Zone, Episode 14: That’s How I Drive My Truck

Comfort Zone, Episode 13: Celsius Has No Character

My Obsidian Setup: Note Taking and Writing

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