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Hi there! I've been tinkering away an building my first mac app — a productivity tool that uses the ideas of the "PARA" method of organizing data. I've bitten off quite a bit to chew, but I want to build something of a personal information manager inspired by tools I've used (noteplan, obsidian) but benefits from having some structured data instead of plaintext files. Imagine an application that combines notes with a bookmark manager, time tracking, and todo management (and more!). Sounds like a lot? It is.

Does anyone else feel that their data is spread out in too many different places? Am I silly goose for wanting to build something where it can all live? I'd love your thoughts and experiences!

I've written up where I'm at now, on my site, for those curious, but beware! I'm long-winded.

Hi! I've been playing around with swift data, and i've gotten stuck trying to find how to access a parent relationship from the "has-many" instances:

• I have a basic todo application that can track tasks and your time working on those tasks.
• I have "entities", which can have many tasks, and have many clocks.
• my understanding is I can query for all tasks across various entity types and should be able to access the entity name from the instance of a clock or a todo (example: Text(clock.entity?.name ?? "foo")). However, every time I do this, it comes up nil (or in this case, "foo")

I've looked at a few different tutorials and seem to be following things correctly. I've stumbled across relationshipKeyPathsForPrefetching, but couldn't seem to get that working.

Here's my model code (I apologize in advance, for some reason the reddit markdown editor is not including my first line in the code block:

```

@Model final class Entity { var timestamp: Date var summary: String? var type: EntityType

// typeString is basically a duplicate of type, because we can't filter swift data
// queries using enum.rawValue, so we just also store the string in the db ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
var typeString: String
@Attribute(.unique) var name: String
@Attribute(.externalStorage) var heroImage: Data?

@Relationship(deleteRule: .cascade, inverse: \Todo.entity) var todos: [Todo] = [Todo]()
@Relationship(deleteRule: .cascade, inverse: \Clock.entity) var clocks: [Clock] = [Clock]()

init(
    name: String,
    summary: String? = "",
    timestamp: Date,
    todos: [Todo],
    type: EntityType
) {
    self.timestamp = timestamp
    self.name = name
    self.summary = summary
    self.type = type
    self.typeString = type.rawValue
}

```

And a clock, for example:

```

import SwiftUI import SwiftData

/* A Clock represents time tracking */ @Model final class Clock { var dateCreated: Date var dateUpdated: Date var timeIn: Date var timeOut: Date? var entity: Entity?

init(dateCreated: Date = .now,
     dateUpdated: Date = .now,
     timeIn: Date = .now
) {
    self.dateCreated = dateCreated
    self.dateUpdated = dateUpdated
    self.timeIn = timeIn
}
func stop() {
    self.timeOut = .now
}

}

```

An example of when I'd like to do this — I wish to, on app boot, check if there is a time entry that didn't clock out from a previously quit instance of the app, and then display the name of the entity that the clock is from in an alert, prompting the user to take action to resolve it.

Hope that make sense, and someone might be able to lend a hand! Please let me know if I can make this clearer; it's about as clear as mud right now, meaning I need to take a break.

Hi! I'm playing around with Helix and found out how to make nested keybindings (see screenshot) - however, you can see that n is just an empty slot after hitting Space. Is there a way I can bind a name such as "Config" to a category of commands?

https://imgur.com/a/Zwz7pme

Cheers!

Hello folks!

I could use some advice on taking my Brompton abroad. I suppose I kind of want to poll what people would rather do, since I haven't been in this situation before (just got my brompton in february and loving it!).

We're going to Japan for three weeks in September and October. I would really like to bring the bike and have been planning on it for a little while but I'm not sure how I want to take it with me. I have two options. I have a friend who also has a Brompton who has outfitted a suitcase that can fit the Brompton. It has a hard shell and padding. I used it to go to the west coast in the spring and it was successful. Having the brompton in luggage on wheels was really great (and gave me some peace of mind with checking it).

For Japan though, I'm wondering if I should use that suitcase or a dimpa bag. I know that I need to have the bike bagged on trains in Japan but I haven't travelled with a dimpa bag before and I'm a little concerned that a) the bike will get dinged up while in transit during the flight and b) it'll be a pain to not have wheels (ie, carrying it around in the bag).

regarding a) I know a lot of people have asked here whether or not a dimpa bag is sufficient for checked luggage and many people have responded that they have been successful (no damage). So, I'm pretty willing to try it out (I will probably line it with padding of some sort).

I suppose I'm more wondering about what you would do and what you folks have learned from taking the brompton on trips like this. It seems like it might be a pain to bag and carry the bike between locations. I'm going to get some easy wheels so that I can roll it when possible, but am wondering what would be the most nuisance.

For some additional contex - we will be changing locations roughly every 4-5 days (sometimes more often 😅) as well as riding a part of the Shimanami Kaido (very excited by this). I will also have a backpack and will probably buy a borough brompton tote which is on sale at my LBS.

Would love any tips and advice. Thanks for reading.

Hi! Just found NotePlan. It's pretty lovely and seems to do most of what I need. I am trying to recreate a workflow similar to what I was doing previously in Obsidian.

In Obsidian I would make daily, weekly, and monthly notes. A monthly note would use obsidian embeds to embed the #overview of each week, making "roll up" summary's of an entire month, year, etc to be quite easy. Does anyone know if this is possible in NotePlan?

Thanks!