Cheesy title, yes. But it describes how I’ve developed my use of various digital and analog tools over the past several years to live in a way that fits my beliefs and brings satisfaction. Is there room to improve? Of course — there’s always room to improve. But my combination of habits and tools is feeling settled and peaceful. And as many people seem interested in these topics, I wanted to share my overall system. Why paper and digital tools? Simple. Both have advantages. Digital tools are…
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Shawn Blanc his team have been working on a course for helping people get the most out of Ulysses [https://thesweetsetup.com/ulysses/]. Seeing Shawn’s posts had me reviewing my own usage: he touches on a few items I was either not aware of or had never thought to try. Once he shared that he’d be building this course, I finally took the time to dig into the features in Ulysses that have been peripheral to my usage. The biggest gap was my lack of understanding of the different methods for adding…
Keynote is still one of the best tools in my design/writing/thinking tool belt.
Things 3 is a masterful redesign of an already popular app. It's document style approach to managing tasks allows a lot of flexibility than many competing options do not provide.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Day One. It’s an app I use regularly, yet greatly underutilize. This is partly because I lost my habit of regular journalling a few years back, the act of taking time every day to jot down some thoughts or the events of the day. Most of my Day One usage of late has been the automation of getting items in there from other sources plus tracking my Bible study [https://chrisbowler.com/journal/bible-journalling]. But I could do so much more with it, both with s…
The company of the same name appears to have taken all they've learned over the past 12 years about how remote teams work best, then built the service to enable teams to do just that.
Drew Coffman makes an excellent observation: > I have once or twice been caught in a situation where my Apple Watch is off my person or dead, and I have been discouraged to exercise, knowing that none of the data will be tracked. When the tools become the focus, we’re off target. I have to be mindful of this myself; there is a balance with these types of tools. The past several months, I’ve used a combination of Gyroscope, Moves, Rescuetime, and Apple’s Health app to track a lot of things. I’ve…
Notes and reference information have been a weak spot in my digital armour. Ulysses and Day One have filled the gap.