For reasons that have to do with my existing laptop having a couple of keys that don't stay on the keyboard, and some issues with keeping the thing from going flat even while charging, I have invested in a new laptop. Not a thing I wanted to have on the list this year, but needs must and the last one was about 7 years old, and struggling (I couldn't watch video on it; tumblr mostly loads lovely gradients rather than images; typing became an exercise in meditation as I attempted to type at the speed that the buffer was accepting text).

Rather than port everything across, I'm taking this as the opportunity to actually go through and rearrange the files, because my folder structure is giving me the irrits, and has been too large a task to address in a way that worked. The old computer has a file called 'z_on the new computer' and as I copy a folder across, it gets moved in there. I'm still using email on the old one, and most of my logins haven't yet been transferred across (am attempting to persuade myself that tumblr should be a 'not on the lap top' thing, but if I try and use it on my phone, I'm concerned about the potential for addictive behaviour other than when I should be going to be).

One of the ways that I'm dealing with the transfer is to keep a tick list of all the things that i think of that need doing. I'm using the built in notes add, which as the option to have a list that self sorts as things get ticked off.

I went to do something with that, and realised that it was only showing the 'iCloud' option. As a general rule, I don't leave local task lists in the cloud, because I don't need them mirrored across multiple devices. So I went to move the list to the 'on my mac' list. Which wasn't there.

After several attempts to work it out, and completely failing to find anything relevant in a web search, I turned the icloud option off, created a local (temporary) file, and then turned icloud back on. And lo, I now have the two locations showing, and i can pick which one is going to be the default. Win!