Jeroen Sangers

This is such an amazing idea by @patrickrhone: pipe your Instagram and Twitter posts to the Day One app, so you can print them out as a book.

The most intelligent photo ever taken

I’m simultaneously exporting a video in Final Cut Pro and bouncing a podcast episode in Logic Pro on a seven year old.

I can’t wait until  releases the next generation iMac.

What happened to my pupils?

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, many fashion retailers are stuck with huge amounts of stock they will never be able to sell, since fashion changes each season.

What used to be a money-making machine is now a problem.

I think this is a great opportunity to leave the old unsustainable model behind us and invest in quality, evergreen and unique styles.

Michael Wade proposes adding a fifth quadrant to the Eisenhower priority matrix and he calls it Important and Ugh.

You know the characteristics of Important and Ugh: not urgent but so distasteful that an extra effort will be required to trick/nudge/cajole you into tackling it.

Most messages in the user forums of any productivity tool are from people who overcomplicate their workflows.

Somehow, Spotlight stopped working on my iMac. Neither the keyboard shortcut or the icon in the menu bar did anything. Time for a reboot…

WhatsApp’s canary died 😔

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Well said:

Discussions of ‘time management’ and ‘productivity’ often hide the real issue. Soul management.

Google’s iOS apps haven’t been updated in weeks. Could Apple’s privacy labels be the reason?

Probably…

As usual, effectiveness is a question of habits. Tools come in second place.

So more than the bells and whistles, ask yourself which app feels useful to you. Which one helps you get to what you want? Which one do you feel inspired to write in? Which one feels enjoyable to write in? Which one feels like the initial seeds of a system can be enjoyable to maintain?

So true:

artwork by Liz Fosslien

Nicholas Base reminds us to be a good gardener:

Although he/she wouldn’t be so bold as to proclaim it, the good gardener has stumbled upon a brilliant approach for business, parenting and life.

It seems Seth was listening in on our Zoom call this morning, in which we decided to dedicate the month of January to review our processes and systems.

When will you sharpen the saw?

In any given moment, an urgency that feels like an emergency gives us the permission to abandon our systems and simply dive in and fix it, as only we can. And this permission is precisely why we get stuck, precisely why the next urgency is likely to appear tomorrow.

There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

It really bothers me when services with a well working web app oblige me to install their app to access their service from my phone.

Usually I prefer native apps, but not for something I only need very occasionally.

I love this quote about Serena Williams using Toggl Track in Working all the time isn’t the same thing as productivity:

Serena Williams tells senior writer Nicole LaPorte that she uses the app Toggl to help track her time with her daughter, Olympia. Victory, for this athlete-entrepreneur-investor, is when she overindexes on parenting.

Entiendo la popularidad de iVoox para escuchar a podcast. Pero desde el punto de vista de los productores de podcast es un servicio nefasta. No entiendo porqué duplican el feed original eliminando metadatos como, por ejemplo, los enlaces en las notas del programa.

Over the last days, my todo list slowly morphed into a Tetris puzzle with too many dependencies.

When I’m that time restrained I feel I can’t trust OmniFocus anymore and am afraid that I’m overcommitting.

So, I moved all my tasks to SchedPal and let my limited time available determine what to focus on.

I’m seriously wondering why I’m not posting more often when there really is no friction to write down and publish a message.

I agree with all these observations: Let’s talk video conferencing

Why isn’t the Notes app available in the share sheet of an  Music song?