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Every week I create a weekly note, and write my to-dos for the week. If any items didn’t get done I roll them over to the next weekly note or drop them.

This post was originally featured on alastairjohnston.com How do you manage projects in your Bullet Journal? You can manage your future appointments, you can easily manage your to-do’s, all using The Alastair Method. The Alastair Method is a tool for managing your workload by helping you organize short-term tasks and long-term goals. But what about when you have something a little more complicated, something that has a bit more complexity, something like a project? I’ve been struggling for a while to find a simple way to track progress and key deliverables on project work that I do in my day to day employment. I needed to find a way to incorporate some of the techniques of the Kanban process for managing projects, but to do so on paper, for those times when I don’t want to be staring at yet another screen. When I couldn’t find anything

The Magpie Method = No Method + Every Method

Look for single decisions that remove hundreds or thousands of other decisions.

Semantic Versioning spec and website

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A guide to basic digital hygiene.

I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve … Continue reading →

My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.

How to reclaim your privacy in the surveillance age.

Life is too short for ugly XML.

Getting Started guide to web feeds/RSS

The prolific mind behind "Sicario" and "Yellowstone" only started his writing career at 40. The realest deadlines (a young family, a $350m ranch) have pushed him to grind at an unbelievable pace.

I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.

How I built a solar-powered, self-hosted website with a Raspberry Pi to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting.

The best habit I made in 2024... I call it the “No Excuse Hour.” Sounds simple, but it changed everything. Here’s how it works and why you need it 1/ The “No Excuse Hour” is the first hour of my day.

Do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the 'loading-bar' style (more on that below) Don't just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so y

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This morning I got stuck in the slow lane behind an old man when I was walking down the sidewalk on my way to a Zoom meeting at my neighbourhood coffee shop. Rather than speeding up and hurrying past him, thoughts on my meeting, I did the opposite: slowed down

I suppose I’m a “list person”. Although I would …

Cassidy's current "stack" of task-tracking, calendar, and note-taking apps