The Strava integration with DayOne is pretty good. I usually manually add content on my activities into DayOne and this certainly helps simplify that.

The integration pulls in your title, notes, and any media, along with a map of the activity. I like that it also integrates with the iOS Journaling Suggestions.

The stats view is rather plain, but I appreciate that given the diversity of potential metrics, this is difficult to display in any other way, certainly for an experimental DayOne Labs feature.

A fitness tracking app interface displays details of a swim session, including a map, distance, time, elevation gain, pace, and calories burned, accompanied by a photo of a cloudy lake.

🇨🇦 This is going to be a good read. These Sutherland Quarterly books have all been interesting.

A book cover features an illustration of a Canadian Mountie riding a horse while holding the American flag, under the title "The 51st State Votes: Canada Versus Donald Trump" by Justin Ling.

We’ve reached the end of a glorious vacation. Always great to take some time off to recuperate and reflect. Back to the office tomorrow

A glass filled with an amber liquid sits on a wooden railing overlooking a serene lake with the sun reflecting on the water.

🏃‍♂️ I’d planned for a longer run, but allergies kept me up too long last night

Cloudy sky and rocky shoreline captured during an outdoor running session with stats overlayed.

Finished reading: I really enjoyed Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. A clever and poignant story. Not sure why it took me so long to get around to reading it 📚

Finished reading: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe is a fascinating and disturbing book about The Troubles in Ireland with interesting questions about political violence and accountability 📚

Finished reading: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is a delight 📚

A subtle enjoyment of being at a cottage is exposure to the weather. At home and the office it is too easy to not be affected. Whereas here we feel the heat, the wind, and the rain.

A tranquil lake scene at dusk features a silhouetted boat on the calm water, with trees and a dock in the foreground.

George has become a cottage dog

A golden retriever is lying on a wooden dock by a lake with a forest in the background.

Finished reading: Superbloom by Nicholas Carr is a fascinating, alarming, and important book about how communication technology and social media are shaping society, mostly for the worse 📚

🏃‍♂️ Clouds on today’s run, instead of smoke. Much better

Finished reading: Canada by Richard Ford is remarkable. A good cottage read 📚

Time to get up!

Impressive repurposing of a dead tree here at the cottage we’re renting

A wooden totem pole carved with animal figures, including an owl on top, stands on a deck next to an outdoor structure surrounded by trees.Two intricately carved owls are nestled within a wooden tree trunk.A carved wooden sculpture depicts a bear nestled in a tree trunk.A wooden sculpture depicts the head of a bear, carved into a tree trunk, situated near a lake.A wooden owl sculpture is perched on a tree stump with a background of green foliage and a clear sky.

🎧 A poignant memorial to a father in this episode of Strong Songs

Finished reading: I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne is quite the tour through rock and roll debauchery. Hard to understand how he got anything done. Great excuse to revisit the music though 📚

Finished reading: A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna is a compelling and fascinating book about us, our culture, and our future. Any book like this has a unifying principle and I found this one’s focus on Energy Return on Investment intriguing. 📚

🏊‍♂️ The lake is the only cool place around here and I’m grateful for it

A serene lake under a partly cloudy sky is shown, with open water swim statistics overlayed, including distance, time, and average pace.

Finished reading: I really liked the premise of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: how would people adjust to being brought from the past into the present? Well written too. The last third was a bit too much standard time travel plot though, which detracted from the cool premise 📚

First week of vacation was a great success

A serene lake reflects the pastel hues of a sunset sky, with a small floating dock visible in the water.