productivity

productivity

Publishing a Sonarr or Radarr Content Schedule to Google Calendar via Synology

I was recently gifted a Skylight digital calendar and have been slowly working on importing my family's various events and tasks into it. I have Sonarr running on my NAS, and since Sonarr has a calendar feed, I figured why not add in my TV download schedule.

Initially easier said than done, but ultimately pretty easy.

The issue I immediately ran into was that my instance of Sonarr is not publicly accessible, so simply adding the calendar URL to my Google Calendar like I normally would to subscribe to a calendar feed resulted in absolutely nothing happening. Google has no access.

I do have a VPS running Pangolin, so I considered setting up publicly-accessible link to share to Google, but it seemed like overkill for a calendar. It doesn't need to be constantly accessible or update frequently throughout the day.

Sonarr runs on my NAS, and I'

productivity

Custom Browser Search Queries

I’m lazy efficient and therefore don’t want to do more work than necessary, especially with any sort of repetitive tasks. I do a lot of searches from the address bar in Firefox, so I make good use out of Firefox’s built-in search tools.

Most modern browsers offer a simple search bar, however additional, more powerful tools are available if you dig into your browser settings.

Below I’ve listed 2 methods of adding new custom search options to Firefox, though Chrome (and I assume other browsers) have similar options.

Easy Method

The easiest way, in Firefox at least, is to right-click a search box on the site you’d like to use and select “Add a keyword for this search,” then add a memorable keyword that will act as the trigger for your specific search, and save.

This creates a new entry in the Bookmarks

productivity

Sync Obsidian Across Devices for Free via a Synology NAS

I wish I wasn’t as particular as I am, but not much to be done about that. If I want a thing, it will be thoroughly researched and I will obtain the perfect thing that suits my needs. And I don’t mean to say the perfect thing is necessarily expensive or literally the best available version of the thing I’m looking for, but that it checks all the boxes I’ve arbitrarily decided are important for the thing. Either way, I get hung up on the thing.

I’ve used at least a dozen different note-taking, Personal Knowledge Management, Project Management and productivity apps and software over the years. I used to be all about Evernote until they shit the bed, and ever since I’ve been free-floating through the Internet occasionally testing out a cool new note-taking app or self-hosting some novel