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The number of available plugins seems to stabilize a bit and most of them now incorporate the permission system. I have installed and tried out (almost) all of them, just for fun, and I am still impressed by the creativity of the authors. For every new plugin installed, I had to disable or remove another one, due to the set limit of 10 active plugins. A limit that is very welcome, otherwise one simply loses track.

I use my Nomad almost exclusively for writing and taking notes, at home and in the office. After months and months of installing and removing plugins, these are the ones that have remained on my device and are used pretty much daily:

• Superdashboard
• SNFolio
• Align
• Make space
• Restyle
• Sticker

Then there are three other very useful plugins, that are used somewhat less frequently:

• Clipper
• Listsorter
• SN Draft

I have still room for one more plugin: suggestions are welcome! 😄

The SNFolio plugin is very nice looking and cleverly designed. Unfortunately, it does not work on my Nomad with a Microsoft (Outlook) .ics-file that was added through the option <Add a Calendar>.

According to AI, the problem lies in the Microsoft's .ics file. After adjusting the .ics file, based on the AI-suggestions, all calendar events are now normally displayed in the plugin's calendar. The AI came to the following conlusion:

"The SNFolio's event parser fails on Microsoft's timezone scaffolding. The moments your events referenced TZID=W. Europe Standard Time backed by that VTIMEZONE with year-1601 dates (the Windows FILETIME epoch quirk), the parser couldn't resolve the timezone reference and discarded every event. Strip the VTIMEZONE and TZID parameters, and the same events parse fine."

This problem can maybe be resolved in the SNFolio plugin? (I do not know anything about programming myself). My solution for now is to simply adapt Microsoft's .ics file every time before adding it to SNFolio. It would be much nicer though if the plugin could deal directly with Microsoft's .ics files.

(By the way, it would also be nice if the plugin also allows for using the 24:00 hour notation, but that is a very minor point).

[Edit: added the AI-conclusion on why the it is not working with Microsoft's .ics-file]

I have been using a few plugins very regularly in the process of taking notes. One of these plugins, let's call it X, has not yet been updated to incorporate the permission-feature. In fact, this plugin was created quite a while ago and the author might have moved on to other programming hobbies. However, I really, really wanted a plugin with the same functionality to function under the latest beta (3.29.44).

So, with absolutely zero programming skills, I decided to have a go and try to adapt the plugin myself, using Lumo (AI). I fed it plugin X, I fed it two plugins that were already updated and I fed it Supernote's information on plugins. It was a lengthy process that went deep into the night. During this process, Lumo has become 'a dear friend of mine' (ridiculous and scary, this personalisation of AI!). But in the end, I got what I wanted: a plugin with the same functionality as plugin X! Wow! I was super impressed by myself, sorry, by Lumo.

This new plugin is of course purely for personal use. Once the original plugin has been updated, I will delete my personal plugin and download the original one. But for now, I have the same functionality again, as before.

Altogether, it was a super interesting and fun process to go through. It is a bit scary though, that people like me, without any, I repeat, without any programming skills are 'able' to develop a plugin using AI. Next step; learn some basic programming skills and try to make my own plugin from scratch (if only I can find the time)

The new customizable menu is great and looks very neat. Now I can place my most used menu items (pen, lasso, undo) in the top right corner of the screen. Most importantly, all necessary menu items now fit in the horizontal menu dock. Plugins can be added to it as well! Getting the extra room in the menu bar is also due to the new and very clever feature of calling up a page-menu and an text-insert-menu by merely holding the pen tip down on screen. A very nice feature!

The previously installed plugins do not function anymore (that was clearly communicated, so I knew). That is a pity, but no problem, just a matter of waiting for the new and compatible plugin versions to be published. I have deleted all non-functioning plugins and have installed the new (games) plugin from the Inkhub. Gives me something to play around with at work.

Flipping texts horizontally and vertically works fine as well (I doubt whether I will ever use it).

Altogether a very nice upgrade!

The one thing still missing in Supernote's software is the perfect shape feature; it works for lines (which now also displays the angle when rotating, very nice!), but not for circles, rectangles, triangles and other geometric shapes. That means that when I'm doing some math, I still need to go back to one of my other devices. However, looking at all the software developments in the past two years, I'm sure and hopeful that also this feature will be incorporated at one time.

p.s. I just found out by accident that stickers can be used as headers as well (!?). Probably not a new feature, I just did not know. That feature can result in very creative graphic tables of contents, nice!

Yesterday I visited a toy store (in the Netherlands) where they sold not only Lego sets, but also Cada (and Reobrix) sets. This was for me the first time that I saw Cada and Lego sets together in one shop: on the one side of the aisle Lego sets and on the opposite side Cada sets. That means that people are now able to directly compare Cada with Lego, price wise and design/picture-on-the-box wise. The toy store is part of an international franchise of toy stores, but displaying and selling these Cada sets was an idea of the shop owner (you cannot find Cada products on the toy store's website). This is a great development and surely the parents will notice the huge price differences between the two brands. They do not only sell the smaller Cada sets, the ones around 20-25 euros, but also the big ones, the Mercedes AMG One and GT3. Very nice development!

Has anyone faced problems with connecting their Nomad to wifi and (how) were you able to solve them?

My Nomad gives me trouble in connecting to wifi. This is becoming a time-consuming distraction. Most of the time it works without any problem. In the past two years of ownership it would connect to wifi normally, except once every one or two weeks, when it would either not connect al all or lose the connection a few seconds of connection time. Now it is almost every day...

All my other devices (e-readers, ipads, laptops) work fine on the same wifi connection, it is just the Nomad that gives me trouble. It won't even connect to a mobile hotspot next to it...

[Update: after a factory reset of the device and having turned off and on again the modem, the connection is working for now (on the 5 GHz band, I did not even know that this was possible...). However, if or when the problems start again I'll force back to 2.4 GHz]

The Game stack is my first Lumibricks set. It arrived a couple of days ago. The whole thing, box, manuals, electrical stuff, it all looks very nice and very professional. Everything has been put together with an amazing attention to detail and everything breathes quality. It surpassed my expectations, although I knew beforehand already that it would be good, having watched some videos.

I've now completed the first seven building steps and the building experience is great. Good quality bricks, a large number of totally new kind of bricks with all kinds of shapes. Everything fits well together. The wiring is very easily built in and everything connects well. The light effects can be enjoyed already after just a few building steps which makes the continued building even more fun.

I'll probably be getting some more of these neon city sets; they look great!

Progress until today

Every few weeks I can just spend some hours on building this fantastic model. Today step 6 was completed. The build is very technical with quite a few challenging steps, it requires some concentration while working on it and, in other words, it is great fun!

Progress made today