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I’m not a fan of AI to try to be creative, because AI replicates patterns and lacks sentiment and intention.

But it’s good at some more mechanical tasks — voice transcription and clean up, bullet point summary, improving structure and flow. As long as the final edit is my words, my style and tone, I’m OK with that.

A logical way for Markdown to evolve is to gain these kinds of features via BYOK eg Claude.

Who is developing along these lines? What works? I’m not interested in paying silly money for a subscription but a reasonable one-off payment for a good app is always a fair investment — in continuing development as much as anything else. What are your suggestions?

Following the evolutions of the past 25 years, I moved from blogging to newsletters, but the friction of posting became an inhibition.

What are members’ best ways of making their posts widely available – quickly, easily and at low cost?

Surprise me with an approach which is a bit different but which works for you!

I have used both Substack and Medium but the publishing friction can be quite high eg finding an illustration. What are my options, where my material will still be found and not just lost in the internet ether?

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Just asking the question everyone is asking. Ready to give feedback via TestFlight… should be seeing invitations by now.

Is there an easy way to have Apple Notes create a Daily Note view on opening?

Craft is great for producing good-looking handouts and it has some ‘second brain’ features but I find it less than satisfactory for capture and note-taking in general. I would like to see this addressed in 2026.

Specifically, voice transcription within the app is long overdue. The post-processing exists and could be made more accessible.

But why the reticence about transcription? Having embraced the move into providing AI helps, transcription is a no-brainer.