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I don’t use Roam anymore. Why?

Last week, the American figure skater Nathan Chen, a favorite to win gold in the 2022 Olympics, lived up to expectations. In a four-minute free skate performance that included five quadruple jumps, and a joyous dance break, he earned the medal that had eluded him four years earlier in Pyeongchang. Many of you sent me

I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.

A system to organise projects.

I have become very fond of iOS widgets both on my iPad and iPhone. On the iPad, it functions as a dashboard into all my important apps and…

By Emma Young. But timing matters: students only benefited if the second viewing was immediately before a test.

A reader named Alexander recently pointed me toward an essay he wrote about his experiment avoiding social media for all of 2021. What caught my attention is the fact that Alexander runs an online business as a freelance copywriter. I frequently hear from people who are exhausted by the frenetic, anxiety-inducing churn of social media, […]

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If you’re feeling creative, do the errands tomorrow. If you’re fit and healthy, take a day to go surfing. When inspiration strikes, write it down. The calendar belongs to everyone else.…

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Quote collecting in a 5 year notebook.

The digital age enabled productivity but invited procrastination. Now writers are rebelling against their word processors.

As Club MacStories members know, I use my Mac’s menu bar sparingly. With Bartender, our MacStories Selects Mac app of the year, I limit my menu bar to a handful of frequently-used apps and system controls that take up as little space as possible. That cuts down on clutter and means everything will fit when

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**I'm trying to optimize my home office, so I've been digging into desk setups. Hopefully, you can benefit from what I'm learning.** --- Thanks to a rec...

“Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?”

How do you find time to learn in a busy schedule? Here are four strategies I use to find time between work and family life.

A lesson from photography to the world of note-taking.

On productivity and visual storytelling

One of the most underrated things in the industry, especially when you’re working as a full-time developer, is the power of keeping a “knowledge stash” handy. There’s this perception that knowledge comes through experience, time, or simply osmosis, and, while that can be true over a long enough period of time and for the more superficial knowledge, there are just too many layers in a professional codebase that it’s impossible to grok it immediately.

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The reMarkable is a premium e-ink notebook. Imagine a Kindle, but you can write on it. It has become my daily notebook. I take all my meeting notes on it, dump my ideas and designs, and carry it with me everywhere. As a bonus, it also has replaced

Here's how to easily move your passwords from 1Password to iCloud Keychain

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The United States distributed a manual to Allies sympathizers to help take down the Axis powers through crippled productivity.

In this article, I explain why podcasts replaced a lot of my Wikipedia usage for informal learning. I also talk about how I listen to five-plus hours of podcas…