April 2026

• Watched the Artemis II launch live. Nice to see humans heading moonward again.
• Started renovating the Rome studio in earnest: primer, paint, ceilings, and enough white-on-white labor to qualify as performance art.
• Published Vault Tasks, an Obsidian plugin for gathering Markdown tasks from across a vault into one view.
• Built a small companion plugin for Plaintext Task, continuing the slow march toward file-native task tooling.
• Published Metrics, an Obsidian plugin for structured plain-text metric tracking.
• Continued expanding Arrowhead so it can work across both notes and metrics.
• Incorporated the Georgian branch of the Japan-Georgia Trading Company, this is very experimental.
• Spent much of the month in Tbilisi—caught a Ryuichi Sakamoto tribute show and later saw Peggy Gou at Radio City.
• Placed an order for a custom chokha with Papanaki.
• Published th, a macOS CLI tool for controlling Things 3 from the terminal.

Being in Tbilisi is nice. What still catches me off guard is how much Ludo enjoys it here—far more than I expected. It makes the idea of having a more permanent base here feel much less hypothetical. I’m also struck by how much the city has changed in just the last few years, let alone over the decade since I last lived here. On weekends it buzzes; even on weekdays, parts of it can feel almost Shibuya-like.

April was also unusually productive on the tinkering front. I ended up making a small cluster of tools that all contribute, in one way or another, to my ongoing research into tools for thought and the broader idea of Plaintext Commons.