Reading Time: 4 minutes Using computer applications can help you to be more productive and to live an intentional life. I use mind mapping in the MindNode app to think graphically through my blog post topics and make decisions. I use my calendar and task manager apps to help me plan my week and remember events and tasks when …
Reading Time: 6 minutes In this final post in the “Working through the Productivity Field Guide” series, we will discuss the digital tools you might use to set up and maintain your roles-based productivity system. These tools can help you keep up with your roles and arete statements and streamline quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily review and planning sessions. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hookmark is an app that enables you to link together all kinds of documents with easily applied unidirectional and bidirectional links. Its real value is that it works with almost any app, even many without a linking feature. I frequently use it to link research material to a blog post idea template on a topic …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Social Media Is Designed to Waste Our Time Most people interested in tech are aware that social media platforms are specifically engineered to manipulate human weaknesses to make people addicted to their platforms. The goal is to suck you in and keep you in as long as possible so that the platform receives advertising revenue. …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Listening to the Mac Power Users podcast #650: Craft Deep Dive earlier this week got my attention focused on the Craft app. I’ve had it installed on my Mac for over a year now, but haven’t done much with it. I figured out how to easily create a few documents and emails containing links to …
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m an introvert, so I don’t get excited (at least outwardly) about many things. But I’m really excited about many of the new features announced at WWDC coming to iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura. At past WWDCs, I’ve been interested in only one or two of the features that are announced. A lot …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last year, Agilebits announced that the next version of their popular password manager for the Mac, 1Password 8, would not be written in native Mac code, but rather be an electron app.
Reading Time: 3 minutes I tried several times to develop a consistent journaling practice in the past few years. Each time, I would start with good intentions, but I stopped after a few days due to forgetting or getting busy with other things.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Once you determine your Why, you can focus on implementing a productivity system. There are many tools available, both digital and analog, that can help you to implement and keep up with your productivity system. The tools you use are not the solution, they are merely tools that help you to do what you’ve determined is important for you to do.
Reading Time: 4 minutes By adding the FoodNoms app to my morning routine, it reminds me each day to log my food. When I see the app during my routine, I log in the morning coffee that I’m drinking. This gets me started practicing logging in my food for the day. I’d likely forget about it if I didn’t have this reminder every morning.