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Took a second to update my morning writing workflow. Before, I was using a plug-in in Obsidian to see a word cloud of all my free-writing gibberish. I'd love to automate that step, so I found some JavaScript that I could drop into an Apple Shortcut. I'll add the script below.
So now my morning flow is to run the Morning shortcut. The shortcut:
- Creates a random linear drum pattern and puts it in my task list for Today
- Asks me what I did yesterday and appends it to a text file called Story
- Asks me what I learned yesterday and appends it to a text file called Wisdom
- Selects one random Japanese grammar for me to practice and puts it in my task list for Today
- Selects one thing to deep clean from a list and puts it in my task list for Today
Doing this seems to incrementally move the pieces forward.
Here is the Javascript for counting all the words in all the text files in a folder.
function run(input) { var app = Application.currentApplication(); app.includeStandardAdditions = true; var folderPath = input; // Get selected folder var wordCount = {}; // Get list of .txt files var files = app.doShellScript(`find "${folderPath}" -type f -name "*.txt"`).split("\r"); files.forEach(function(file) { var content = app.doShellScript(`cat "${file}"`).toLowerCase(); var words = content.match(/\b+\b/g); // Extract words if (words) { words.forEach(function(word) { if (word.length > 3) { // Ignore short words wordCount = (wordCount || 0) + 1; } }); } }); // Sort words by frequency var sortedWords = Object.entries(wordCount).sort((a, b) => b - a).slice(0, 100); // Create output text var output = "# Top 100 Words Used:\n\n" + sortedWords.map(([word, count]) => `${count}: ${word}`).join("\n"); return output; // Send to Drafts }
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After a big show the next thing after it feels a little flat (ex: rehearsal or show). If it is a rehearsal, it’s ok to do something easy.
Like our last rehearsal we practiced our set kinda slow.
We also dusted off an ancient song and tried it a new way.
We practiced a half hour less. We took a half hour walk after rehearsal instead. We talked business (ex: merch ordering schedules).
The important thing is we showed up and plugged in. At the same time we also respected that after an energy spike there is a trough. The higher the spike, the deeper the trough feels.
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