Read Later Workflow
I last wrote about “long reads” and read later workflows back in 2011. Time for an update.
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Time for a Toolset Update
My last update on my productivity toolset was over two years ago. I’ve changed things up pretty dramatically since then, with the only stable component being...
Why I Left Evernote for a Bear
One of the most important components of my productivity environment is my reference system: where I can dump just about anything for future use on projects, ...
Why RSS Feeds Still Beat Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
David Nield: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of soc...
Long reads and Instapaper
One of my trusted internet services is Instapaper, a simple tool to save web pages for reading later. In today's CNN and Facebook-inspired short attention sp...
Notes and Text Files with DropBox
A while back I wrote about my current Mac OS X ecosystem. Part of this ecosystem has evolved quite a bit - I'm no longer using Notational Velocity or SimpleN...
How Google Voice Saved me from AT&T
I first obtained a Google Voice number back on December 18, 2007 - back then it was still GrandCentral Communications but had been acquired by Google earlier...
Living in a Mac world, 3 years later
Three years ago I purchased my first Apple computer, a MacBook Pro. This computer is still my primary work computer and is holding up very well. I’ve had to ...
GTD for teenage boys
I’ve Twittered a bit recently about the productivity coaching I’ve been giving to Matthew and a few folks asked me to expand on how I’ve introduced Getting T...
Getting Things Done (GTD) with Gmail and Outlook 2007
Like many others out there I’ve adopted a modified Getting Things Done (GTD)