Previously… I started a fairly big project to set up a way for me to record my book sales when out and about. This became the blog entry Bullet Biting #1 and after half a day’s work, it also became Bullet Biting #2 as I started over. I learned a lot, most usefully about what I really wanted to achieve and, along the way, quite a lot about Launch Center Pro, TextExpander and latterly FileMaker Go.

I ended up with one very ugly and unwieldy solution. And then I ended up with one less ugly and more wieldy solution.

Neither of which I have ever looked at since.

I’m looking at using Drafts to let me squirt a text description of the sale into a kind of rough ledger in Evernote. I’ll make one note and have Drafts append to it. I’ll still need to then process it all later so it’s no better in that sense but it’s easier to set up and good enough to use on the go.

It’s also substantially easier than any of the contortions I went through before. Still, without a contortion or two, where would we be?