Notes and reference information have been a weak spot in my digital armour. Ulysses and Day One have filled the gap.
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The web has made learning and finding information easier than ever. We're all students. But if you're sharing content, that means you're also a teacher. Are you thinking like one?
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/12/21/write-things-experience-information/
After my post on Pocket [https://chrisbowler.com/journal/content-everywhere] as a save-anything-for-later bucket, a distinction is needed. I received a few questions about whether Pocket would replace Gimme Bar for me. The answer: an emphatic no. Pocket is to save for later, Gimme Bar is to save forever. Forever being a relative term aside, I see Gimme Bar as my permanent archive location for things on the web. It has been designed and developed with this purpose in mind (as described in Orbita…
This week's news of the launch of Pocket [http://getpocket.com/] — a compelling rebrand and slight change-of-focus of Read It Later — caught my attention. Like all the recent chatter on Instapaper and Readability, Pocket touches on a subject dear to my heart. It's not surprising that these tools generate a lot of opinion and discussion — services like Pocket give us more control and access to the content we consume and share via the Internet. And we care about that content. Regarding Pocket, th…
When I wrote recently about keeping track of your digital activity via a custom log file [https://chrisbowler.com/journal/custom-log-file-revisited/], I received an email from productivity consultant, Matthew Cornell. In his message, he reaffirmed his belief in the benefits on keeping a log file. He also appreciated my thoughts on de-cluttering and and had this to say on that topic: > Don't forget "at hand" filing next to your new desk. My immediate thought was, “Yep—that's an important part of…