@joanna My preference has always been for the Kensington Expert, I've had mine long enough that I've had to replace the ball bearings; the CST trackballs are also pretty smooth. Not sure I'd get on with a thumb-controlled trackball.
// @matigo
@matigo Oh yes, that's why rearranging my wine cabinet is always followed by opening a bottle.
@variablepulserate I've had concerns (though only occasionally outright problems) with my wrists for a few years; exercise has helped, but there's no doubt that music, photography, and computers combined are a real workout for that part of the body….
Have tried most things at this point — gaming mice, various trackballs, trackpad…. I like trackballs generally.
@matigo They're a funny team. For example when making a purchase order, "bottles per case" and "bottle volume" are separate fields (as they ought to be), but in reports only one concatenated "unit size" field is accessible, which presents the data as "
They wanted to bill me half a day's work to set up a "data feed" (read: a single SQL query output to XML/JSON at a URL) and when I asked about authentication options (e.g. a bearer token in the request header) they came back with some rubbish about "browser popup asking for password"….
This USB foot pedal seems like it'll be a game changer for my RSI — I've mapped one of the 3 pedals to left click.
I don't use the mouse that much for my own stuff, but the inventory solution at work has a UI built entirely on Javascript with almost no keyboard shortcuts….
@matigo There are indeed and these notes predate my investigating them.
That said, even now, I maintain my own database. Many platforms cover wine, some cover beer, a few cover spirits, but usually are only good at one thing; Cellartracker is a good example of a platform that started with wine but has since grown the database to include some beer and spirits. I also have coffee, tea, and others to consider — I would just be too fragmented.
Also this is an opportunity to build, at my leisurely pace, a useful Django app.
// @sumudu
@sumudu I've decided I'll have to spend about an hour a day manually moving my data into a more structured format.
Unfortunately a lot of notes are from a time before I appreciated structured data, so is basically impossible to parse automatically.
All part of a larger consolidation/restructuring for my tasting notes…the whole process could take the rest of this year if I'm lucky.
// @matigo
Opening Evernote for the first time in years to finally export everything and delete all those random uploads from the days when Skitch could link to Evernote and just upload everything.
The app is so slow.
@matigo The 6 paragraphs I received over the weekend suggest differently. Far too many sentences that, even with my linguistics background, I probably wouldn't be able to diagram properly…