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PTPL 085: CalcCraft is the Obsidian Tables Plugin I Was Looking For!
Plus a wannabe replacement for the infamous Comic Sans
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Replacing Comic Sans, at last
Here’s a 22 minute video about the infamous Comic Sans. It’s a good history of how it became one of the most used and most hated fonts of all time.
If you’re scratching your head at what font choices have to do with productivity, try changing your notes app font to 8 point Alumni Sans Collegiate, and see how you get along!
Fonts are all about dressing your words in clothing that suits the occasion. You’re not going to wear a ball gown or tux to a football game (especially not if you’re playing), and a baggy t-shirt isn’t going to cut it for a night at the opera (especially if you’re singing).
Font choices absolutely affect my productivity.
You may enjoy the experience of seeing a handwritten-style font as the interface for your phone (Android allows this), while for me this would be akin to rubbing velvet up the wrong way or scratching my nails on a chalkboard every time I used the device.
Simplified formulas in Markdown tables!
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my attempts to write simple formulas for my Markdown tables, to make tracking finances easier. Stowe Boyd kindly let me know in the comments about an Obsidian plugin I’d never heard of — CalcCraft. I’m pretty chuffed to have found it! Thanks, Stowe.
The documentation for this plugin gave me just enough information to be able to work out the formulas for what I’ve been wanting to do in my Markdown expense trackers: calculate the sum of a column of figures, and calculate the account balance after adding the Deposit and subtracting the Withdrawal from the previous…
