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edit DEVONthink records in terminal vim

Posted on June 11, 2013 by ctb — Leave a comment

I’m in the midst of planning my Fall seminar, which happens to be a course titled “Digital History in Theory and Practice.” Given the large number of online resources I’m using in the process, I’ve been drawn back to DEVONthink,…

a cross-series cluster image using ncd

Posted on January 15, 2012 by ctb — Leave a comment

I have more to say about this later, but I find this image pretty interesting. When doing a box-by-box comparison of 12 different series finding guides from the Archivo Nacional del Ecuador, you get an image like this: (Click to…

using markdown for all your writing

Posted on December 23, 2011 by ctb — 2 Comments

I’m a big fan of markdown (md), and especially of Fletcher Penney’s branch multimarkdown (mmd). John Gruber invented the project to make it easier to write pieces destined for HTML, such as blog entries. md and its variants essentially provide…