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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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“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.

Sites and apps for a day in my life

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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

Personal website of Jess Martin.

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…

This is how I’ve set up my Ulysses app to fit my various writing adventures. I’ve worked to keep it simple and dumbed-down. This ensures it doesn’t require a lot of mental overhead to keep organized, and it ensures my brain is on the writing rather than the meta.

A complete list of tips and techniques to get the most out of Twitter lists and never miss an important tweet again.

When I first started using Obsidian, I expected it would help me make connections between my notes and inspire new ideas. But over the last 12 months I've been using the app, I have also fallen in love with it as a writing tool.

With Techtober coming to an end, all of the major OS releases from Apple are finally out there, however buggy they may be. And of course, Drafts 29 has been released to accommodate the features in …

“While I’m sleeping, it allows my brain to subconsciously work on something creative. Often, I wake up with up feeling good with ideas”

Living without regret in the age of distraction. The Focus Course is an online, guided course that will change your life.

We live in the era of efficiency. The advertising industry is infatuated with it. Intoxicated by it. Enamoured and enthralled by it. We want our teams to be lean. Our processes to be agile. And our output to be optimised. Instead of focussing on making our work bigger, we focus on making it work har

It’s time to shed the constant stress and toxic guilt of not checking off enough little boxes on your to-do list.

Apple introduced Focus modes with iOS 15, and it’s a game-changing feature. Here’s how I’m using it to reduce digital distractions every day.

A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing that creates an interconnected web of thought. Its emphasis is on connection and not mere collection of ideas.

​ ​ ​ The life-changing magic of not tidying up I store all my ideas for writing, plus my reading notes and any interesting quotations I encounter, in an app called Ulysses. (I ...