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timestamped/2026-06-05_09-20-40.md

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+---
+id: 2026-06-05T09:20:40-0400
+title: 2026-06-05 09:20:40
+tags: []
+daily: "[[2026-06-05]]"
+---
+# 2026-06-05 09:20:40
+
+## LiveCount Feedback
+
+### Which LiveCount features do you **like**?
+
+* Adding and deleting from existing runs immediately updating Accubid
+    is an excellent pattern.
+    I teach estimators to count the obvious symbols
+    then move on to the next assembly,
+    using Add to Run at the end to pick up what was missed.
+
+* The new Overlay manual alignment pattern is much better.
+
+### Which LiveCount features do you **not like**?
+
+* Reverse takeoffs "un-reverse" when adding or deleting from a run.
+
+* Overlay Auto-align is turned on by default,
+    requiring me to wait seconds which feel like an eternity for each one,
+     even when I know from the previous that it will not align correctly.
+
+* Overlay Auto-align appears to give equal preference to drawing titles
+    meaning it always results in a zero translation alignment.
+
+* Overlays turn off when the overlay menu is closed.
+
+### Which features do you miss and should be added?
+
+### Is there anything else you would like to add?
+
+* Gating LiveCount features behind Anywhere
+    (Auto-homerun)
+    but still mentioning them in the changelogs
+    is up-selly and confusing.
+

timestamped/2026-06-05_09-48-37.md

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+---
+id: 2026-06-05T09:48:37-0400
+title: 2026-06-05 09:48:37
+tags: []
+daily: "[[2026-06-05]]"
+---
+# 2026-06-05 09:48:37
+
+## Accubid Reverse Takeoff
+
+I have mixed feelings
+about using negative or "reverse" takeoffs
+in [[accubid|Accubid]].
+
+### Pros
+
+Pros as an alternative to simply changing existing counts.
+
+With more than one revision,
+it quickly becomes difficult to have confidence in count changes.
+
+### Cons
+
+This note specifically concerns using negative quantities
+to cancel out positive for breakdown purposes,
+which I suspect is the only practical purpose for them.
+Net negative quantities cause all kinds of problems.
+There is no link from the positive to the negative,
+so any change to the former must be repeated for the latter.
+
+With more than one revision,
+determining net takeoff quickly becomes unwieldy.
+
+LiveCount "un-reverses" reverse takeoffs
+when adding or deleting from an existing run,
+which is not intuitive or well known.

timestamped/2026-06-05_10-07-40.md

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+---
+id: 2026-06-05T10:07:40-0400
+title: 2026-06-05 10:07:40
+tags: []
+daily: "[[2026-06-05]]"
+---
+# 2026-06-05 10:07:40
+
+In [[construction-estimating-software]]
+it would always make more sense
+to model count-based assemblies
+as individual line items
+rather than counts in a single run of that assembly type.
+This would allow per-instance breakdowns and substitution
+without need to delete from one to create another.
+
+Were it not for Accubid's poor performance
+with 1000+ takeoff jobs,
+our own workflow could benefit from this arrangement
+if LiveCount would better support it.

timestamped/ensure_dailies.py

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-"""
-This script ensures that every daily note linked in the timestamped notes exists.
-"""
-import frontmatter
-import io
-import glob
-from datetime import datetime
-import os
-
-timestamped_notes = glob.glob("timestamped/*.md")
-
-daily_links = set()
-for child in timestamped_notes:
-    with io.open(child, 'r') as file:
-        link = frontmatter.load(file).get('daily')
-        daily_links.add(link)
-
-new_daily_names = set()
-for link in daily_links:
-    base_name = link[2:-2]
-    path = f"periodic/daily/{base_name}.md"
-    if not os.path.exists(path):
-        new_daily_names.add(base_name)
-
-print(new_daily_names)
-
-# for name in new_daily_names:
-#     date = datetime.strptime(name, '%Y-%m-%d')
-
-#     with io.open(f"periodic/daily/{name}.md", 'x', encoding='utf8') as f:
-#         f.write(f"# {name}\n\n")
-
-#         post = frontmatter.load(f)
-
-#         post['id'] = name
-#         post['aliases'] = []
-#         post['title'] = name
-#         post['tags'] = [
-#             'authorship/original',
-#             'destiny/permanent',
-#             'status/draft',
-#             'type/periodic/daily'
-#         ]
-#         post['dg-publish'] = True
-#         post['date-created'] = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
-#         post['weekly'] = f'"[[{date.strftime('%Y-[W]%W')}]]"'
-#         post['monthly'] = f'"[[{date.strftime('%Y-%m')}]]"'
-#         post['quarterly'] = f'"[[{date.strftime('%Y-[Q]%q')}]]"'
-#         post['yearly'] = f'"[[{date.strftime('%Y')}]]"'
-
-#         frontmatter.dump(post, f)