Scratch Paper: Minimal Mobile Notes App

Scratch Paper is my free re-imagined notes app with only a single page of notes.

As soon as you open it up, you're instantly typing. It is a humble piece of scratch paper for the digital age, letting you jot things down quickly and then getting out of your way.

Perfect for grocery lists, to-do reminders, or scribbling down a rough thought for later refinement. Scratch Paper has only the features it needs and nothing more.

Scratch Paper is the successor to the Android App called Jot which I released in 2018.  I rewrote it in react native for cross platform availability, and with some important quality of life improvements. 

Links

Apple Store 

Google Play Store

Github Project

 

Contact

abraham.r.m[at]gmail.com

Open Interpreter on Termux: the Best Mobile ChatGPT Client

Well it turns out that the best ChatGPT mobile app is... The terminal shell. I'll explain.

The Rise of AI (Blogging has never been easier)

You: 

Write a SEO blog post for me the rise of AI that is about 500 words and will ensure that I'll get a lot of readers on my blog.

ChatGPT: 

As a large language model, I cannot write a blog post that is guaranteed to get you a lot of new readers. Success in attracting readers depends on various factors including promotion, competition, and audience preferences. Nonetheless, I'll write a blog post with content optimized for relevance and engagement.

Unlimited WIFI in the Cafe

Seattle cafe culture lives up to the hype. For centuries in America people have spent most of their lives in three places: Home, work, and church. With the rise of atheism and non-participatory religiosity, many people now look elsewhere for their 'third place', and Seattlites have settled on the cafe.

After living in Seattle for nearly five years, I myself have fallen deeply into this pattern. The cafe is the perfect place where you can sit comfortably (but not too comfortably) in an open rustic atmosphere that is quiet (but not too quiet) while you have a conversation with friends, or work on some kind of individual project. The cafe is where you'll find Seattlites reading their books, going on dates, editing their photos, coding up new iPhone apps, writing blog posts, or sitting in silent meditation. Here, the cafe is the new church, and communion is done with coffee instead of wine.

Jammer

Jammer is a web toy that acts as a strange kind of music sequencer. It consists of a hexagonal grid of tiles that can be toggled between two states: white and black; or for the more imaginative: alive, and dead. Each tile is tied to a specific piano note, and it will play that note while it is alive. In addition to the grid of piano tiles, Jammer has a rule-set which defines the evolution of the grid from one state to the next. When consecutive states of the grid are calculated live and played in sequence -- provided an interesting rule-set and appropriate starting conditions -- the result is a dance of live and dead tiles across the screen accompanied by a chorus of all the living tiles singing together at once.

Try it out here. (It does not work on mobile.)

View code on Github.

The Computer Did My Homework

Ideas mingle and interfere within the mind of an agent to collectively form a complex and multifaceted will. We traverse our lives swimming through a piping hot soup of diverse ideas. Figuring out what to do next consists of giving that soup a good stir, and spooning out a random sample of the rich, mixed broth. I recently attended a class called Intelligent Machinery, where the students formally underwent this process with a smaller soup bowl than usual; we were challenged to collate the ideas from course readings and lectures into a single, expressive response.