Tomorrow's Weekly Impulse is all about a paper reference system I set up at work. It's the first time I've done this since beginning my GTD journey seven years ago.
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It's true. I've been using the hPDA for five years.
A little over five years ago I took a small stack of index cards and clipped them together with a small binder clip. The idea was simple and it was...
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. - John Irving
I haven't used a screensaver in years. But this has me in download mode.
A screensaver for macOS based on Apple's September Event 2019 opening video- Wonderful Tools
A screensaver for macOS based on Apple's September Event 2019 opening video- Wonderful Tools - GitHub - heysaik/Wonderful-Tools-Screensaver: A screensaver for macOS based on Apple's September Event 2019 opening video-...
Here's the latest set of plans from the @OmniGroup. Always great to see what comes next.
Omni Roadmap Update: September, 2019 - The Omni Group
Creators of Mac, iPad, and iPhone productivity software. Proud to bring you OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, and OmniPlan.
Three years later and I still reference these five books on a regular basis.
In the past I’ve wanted to be a reader and yet never picked up a book. But that changed when I said yes to Bookworm. Since then I’ve read 16...
Found another 5.0!
We've all heard stories of famous people who knew what they were born to do from a young age. But should we really be trying to follow in their narrow-focused...
I'm already outlining my talk for this. Gonna be good. 🤓 https://twitter.com/LearnOmniFocus/status/1172274771058409473
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. - E. Joseph Cossman
"1. How do you want to spend your time?"
"2. How do you actually spend your time?"
It’s 6:34 am. The sound of your smartphone alarm startles you awake. (Actually, it’s the sound of the fifth alarm you’ve set because you’ve gotten so used to snoozing them...
Just say yes to the @OmniFocus. 😉
"Joe Buhlig Has Me Tempted to Look at OmniFocus Again" by @curtismchale
Okay so Joe has me tempted to look at OmniFocus again, despite my love of notebooks and a modified Bullet Journal system.
I now need to increase my office budget. Thanks, @MacSparky.
MacSparky Studios 2.0 Folks sometimes ask me about how I’ve set up my home studio. You may not have heard about it but a thing happened in 2020 which led...
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller
It's been about a month since this fight and I can say I'm still happy with the move.
I could see the rage building in her eyes. This had come up many times before and it had now reached critical mass. Something was about to break and regretta...
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. - Ellen Glasgow
You can still catch a digital pass for all the @macstockexpo talks on the website. And if you're not sure it's worth it, check out my roundup of everything that happened.
Macstock was especially awesome this year. Each time I return home I try to dedicate time to reflect on my time on the event. And I always come away with...
An excellent primer on git and using it for version control on your writing.
"How Writers Can Use GitHub to Store Their Work" by @ianpaul
There are many ways you can manage and store your writing projects. Some people prefer cloud storage services (like Dropbox) or online editors (like Google Docs), while others use desktop...
“In a world awash with targeted advertising, influencer marketing, and fake news, we are starved for sincerity.”
Trying to overcome the age of distraction, we fixate on productivity. Discipline holds us hostage to that fixation, and the only way out is for deliberate distraction to create space...
“I was lacking in enough time, energy, and attention to get the things done that I wanted or needed to do”
Something I've learned reporting on digital minimalists is that the definition of "minimal" differs greatly from person to person. As part of my effort to share more case studies about...
I have strong feelings about this one. https://twitter.com/bookwormfm/status/1167396046294659072
“You want to manage up – but what you really mean is that you simply want to work well with your boss.” via @KnowYourTeamHQ
Here are 5 not-so-often-shared ways to manage up – whether you're an individual contibutor or executive – and have a better relationship with your boss.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow
“Living by design allows you to live your life. Living by default, on the other hand, will just lead you to live someone else’s life.”
Do you want to live your life the fullest? Then it’s important that you live by design, not by default. Living by design allows you to live your life. Living...
“We set rigid schedules, put our noses to the grindstone, even block access to temptations like social media, and still we struggle with our wandering minds.”
Trying to overcome the age of distraction, we fixate on productivity. Discipline holds us hostage to that fixation, and the only way out is for deliberate distraction to create space...
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. - Benjamin Franklin
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
