This is an earlier version of my Now page. Read on if you want to see what I was up to on Monday, 2 October 2023. If you want to see what I’m up to now, check out the current version.

The Now Page was invented by Derek Sivers in 2021. It’s a page on your website that tells people what you’re doing right now — what you’re working on, what you’re working towards, what you’re looking forward to, and what you’re enjoying.

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Then

Published on Monday, 2 October 2023.

First day of the last week of the school holidays. A lot is going on right now.

Life

I’ve been maintaining a good level of physical activity. I might have overdone it last month, so I’ve cut out some of the more strenuous cardio just to give my knees a chance to recover. (Jesus.) I got a new Apple Watch Series 9 last week, which will motivate me to continue to monitor my progress and reach my goals, I think.

School

I’ll be spending the week doing a bit of preparation for the last term of the year. I’ll have a new Year 12 Latin Extension class, which will be nice. The departure of this year’s Year 12 leaves me with one less class — which should make it possible for me to attend to some of the important stuff I’ve been putting off this year.

Podcasting

Flight Through Entirety is back on, releasing an episode each week of our coverage of Series 9, the 2015 series of Doctor Who. We’ve still got five more episodes to record this year.

Untitled Star Trek Project continues as always. We have now covered 10% of the 900 or so episodes that constitute the Star Trek franchise. Still having a lot of fun with this.

Websites

Up till now, the podcast websites have been hosted on a VPS, basically a virtual server that I have had to set up and manage. Now they are hosted by Netlify: this means that when I made a change to any of the sites, Netlify rebuilds that site and serves on the internet. And, at the moment, it’s free.

Setting this up has been fun, and I’m happy with the result. It’s going to come in handy with the three new podcast websites I’ll be launching over the next few months.

Apps

I’ve been using Craft as a notes app for years now, and since reading Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain I’ve been trying to organise my notes using the PARA method. But Craft seems to be moving away from knowledge management and towards document collaboration, and so I’m wondering if I should look into using something else. I’m not going to make a wholesale change until the end of the school year, but I’m thinking of falling down the rabbit hole of Obsidian. More of this later, I expect.

What I’m enjoying

There’s one episode left of Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building. It’s such a clever, funny and humane show. The core cast is Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, who play fans of a true crime podcast who bond over investigating a murder committed in the beautiful old New York apartment block they live in. Season 3 has had Paul Rudd and Meryl Streep in its guest cast, and it has been as funny and fresh as the previous two seasons. If this is the end of the show, it’s had a great run, and it will be going out on a high.