edit: Fixed Broken Image Links
One thing I love about my job is always getting to go different places and places I’ve never been to before but more times than not, going to those places means the airport and hotel. We (my flying partner and I) don’t always get a chance to explore the cities or surrounding areas but I always take advantage of those opportunities when I do get them, even if it’s just a couple of hours walking the city streets and playing tourist.
When I went to work this past Friday, I had no idea I would get a mini vacation in Colorado. On Saturday, we finished for the day in Hayden, Colorado and stayed at a hotel in Steamboat Springs. We got to the hotel around 4pm so I was able to walk around downtown Steamboat Springs and some of the trails around the Yampa River.
Downtown Steamboat Springs
Yampa River
Yampa River
Yampa River
Yampa Valley
Yampa Valley
Yampa Valley
Aerial view of Yampa Valley and Steamboat Springs
On Sunday, we flew to White Plains, New York (NYC area), St. Louis, Missouri, and back to Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, Colorado (Denver area). We flew 8.2 hours that day which set us up for part 2 of our Colorado vacation. We can only fly 10 hours in a rolling 24 hour period and we have to be able to look back to the same time the previous day and not exceed 10 hours of flight time. We departed for White Plains around 9:30 a.m. MST and landed around 3:00 p.m. EST. We landed in Broomfield around 8:30 p.m. Sunday night, so we legally shown around 7:00 a.m. on Monday but because of 10 in 24, we would have only been able to fly 1.8 hours before having to sit until the flight time from our Hayden-White Plains dropped off our rolling 24 hour clock (it’s confusing, I know). Because of this we didn’t report for work until 3:00 p.m. MST on Monday which gave us all morning to explore. We drove up to Nederland, Colorado and hiked around the Barker Meadow Reservoir and grabbed lunch in Boulder on our way back to Broomfield.
Our day of flying on Sunday
Driving to Nederland
Driving to Nederland
Driving to Nederland
Barker Meadow Reservoir
Barker Meadow Reservoir
Barker Meadow Reservoir
Baker Meadow Reservoir
Barker Meadow Reservoir
This was the first time I have been to Page, Arizona and had some time to explore the area some and saw some amazing scenery. Pictures can’t always do places like this justice but I still wanted to share some of them.
Flying over the Grand Canyon heading into Page
Flying over the Grand Canyon heading into Page
Flying over the Grand Canyon heading into Page
Page, Arizona
Glen Canyon Dam
Page, Arizona
Page, Arizona
Page, Arizona
Page, Arizona
Page, Arizona
Page, Arizona
Page, Arizona
Page, Arizona
Lake Powell looking towards Glen Canyon Dam
Lake Powell, Arizona
Page, Arizona
Glen Canyon Dam
Departing Page, Arizona
Departing Page flying over the Grand Canyon
Departing Page flying over the Grand Canyon
I have really enjoyed using Craft the past few days. I tried using Notion a couple of times in the past but it never worked for me. Same with Evernote and Bear, I could never stick with them long term. I have always preferred folders for organization and tag based Note systems always caused me a lot of mental stress. Craft being a folder based system is what drew me to it after reading MacStories review. I downloaded it, thought this looks nice, and didn’t use it and deleted it.
I am reading through The Bible and wanted something to take and store notes in. I started out in Drafts, one of my most used apps but wasn’t entirely happy with it for that purpose. I reread MacStories review of Craft and decided to dive in again. I’m glad I did because Craft feels like home, even in the short time I’ve been using it.
In addition to the Bible study notes mentioned above, I am using Craft to keep track of books I want to read with links to the books on Amazon or Apple Books. As I was working on this post, I read Chris Hannah’s post on using Craft to write blog posts and laughed a little because my thoughts mirror his, except for him using Ghost. If I post something to Micro.blog, I’ll export it to Drafts and post it. If I post something to my Blot site, I can export the markdown file directly to the appropriate folder in Dropbox. If a post needs photos I use shortcuts to upload the photos to either my Blot assets folder or Micro.blog. Both shortcuts resize the image, and copy the markdown image link to the clipboard. Here is the shortcut for Blot and here is the shortcut for Micro.blog.
Craft is easily my favorite notes I have ever used. I always thought because of my job, I didn’t need a dedicated notes app other than Drafts but Craft has changed my mind.
If I did everything correctly (fingers crossed), any replies to this post and future posts on Micro.blog will show up below).
Here’s hoping!
This is a quick post to show how easy it is to publish to Blot with Draft.