Archives for the 'tips and tricks' Category
silverflow [Creativityist]
Yesterday, Lifehacker linked to a post on MacApper highlighting a few Quicksilver interfaces. Now, before I rave about my new Quicksilver interface, let me give a little love to MacApper — I’m now a subscriber.
Now, on to SilverFlow. This is a lovely plugin that is modeled after, well, CoverFlow. The icons whiz past as [...]
capture everything revisited: jott [Creativityist]
This is part six of a five(!) part series on capturing everything. Previous entries:
capture everything: buckets
capture everything: tasks
capture everything: ideas
capture everything: out and about
capture everything: the incubator
Jott is a handy little service that lets you call a toll-free number and speak a message. Jott will transcribe and deliver that message to someone else via [...]
off [Creativityist]
This is part of an ongoing series called Blinders where I explore some of the ways I streamline my computer workflows to minimize distractions.
I have a good chunk of writing to do in the next week. Friday, I was hoping to get a good head start. It was a catastrophe.
This afternoon, I took drastic measures. [...]
spring cleaning the documents folder [Creativityist]
This is part of an ongoing series called Blinders where I explore some of the ways I streamline my computer workflows to minimize distractions.
Spring seems to be reluctant to make it’s way to the Pacific Northwest this year. I decided to coax it along with a good spring cleaning in my documents folder.
Documents folders [...]
capture everything: the incubator [Creativityist]
This is last post in a series on capturing everything. Previous entries: capture everything: buckets, capture everything: tasks and capture everything: ideas, capture everything: out and about.
In a time of growing self awareness a few years ago, I quietly proclaimed myself to be a content creator. I had awakened to the fact that I experience [...]
capturing everything: out and about [Creativityist]
This is part 4 of a series on capturing everything. Previous entries: capture everything: buckets, capture everything: tasks and capture everything: ideas.
As I’ve disclosed my processes to capture every worthwhile thought, discerning readers (or Luddite sympathizers) might have noticed that it seems as if I sit at a computer all the time. That’s not entirely [...]
lazy saturday links — 02.09.08 [Creativityist]
A lazy Saturday morning is a good time to share some notable links from my journeys through life and the interweb this past week:
Living With Data - Merlin Mann (MacWorld Encore) - streaming audio and slides from Merlin (43folders) Mann’s seminar at MacWorld last month
Saying “no” (Unclutterer) - “The problem isn’t that there isn’t enough [...]
the tinkering context [Creativityist]
David Allen’s Getting Things Done techniques have been very helpful for me. The one that has most benefited my workflow has been the concept of organizing tasks by context. For example, every task is categorized based on the context where it can be completed, ie, @home, @errands, @mac, etc.
A few months ago, I created a [...]
capture everything: ideas [Creativityist]
This is part 3 of a series on capturing everything. Previous entries: capture everything: buckets and capture everything: tasks.
Once you start to really get serious about capturing every thought of value (and some that aren’t), you’ll quickly realize there are two types of thoughts you want to remember. On the one hand, there are the [...]