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I had the revelation that I'd draw every day if I got the Surface GO. I didn't.
Then I decided surely I'd draw every day if I opened my computer to a brand new canvas every day, ready to be doodled upon in even the most lazy attempt at art.
Enter: Powershell. I made a set of blank, root files for my "canvas.leo" and a daily "journal.md" and this script, after some wrangling, ended up being executed by the windows scheduler somewhat reliably.
Enter: RCLONE/EC2/BASH. "Somewhat reliably" wasn't good enough. If I turned my computer on later in the day, sometimes it would take a while to execute. Such troublesome behaviour was getting in the way of my zen art habit.
Instead, I'd perform this "daily script" in the cloud on a CRONJOB on an EC2 MICRO instance, and then use RCLONE to sync between my ONEDRIVE account and the local files on the EC2. This was better.
Of course, in the end, I didn't want to draw every day. And relying on a cloud instance to fuel this unusual behaviour was sort of against my "less is more" philosophy when it comes to tech.
So now my customized Powershell 7 profile just has a script (synced to the cloud of course) that, when the mood strikes, allows me to type "Draw" into the terminal at any time to open a correctly dated "timestamp.leo" infinite canvas to doodle on.
Some other common patterns are immortalized as well, such as a script to update a github repo with a timestamped commit message, or to split a projects Terminal window in 3 with a remote TMUX session, a local server and a command line all in one.
Powershell is fun. I would be happy to have more excuses to fiddle with it.