Archive

October 2017

Oct 13: From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography

August 2017

Aug 15: But I already paid for it?!?!

July 2017

Jul 29: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
Jul 25: A nod to checklists
Jul 2: A couple of Jekyll updates

June 2017

Jun 24: Look but don't type
Jun 21: It doesn’t want anything
Jun 20: Thinking out loud about the Apple Watch
Jun 14: One-off shell script execution in BBEdit
Jun 10: Lessons from the president

April 2017

Apr 25: The boring truth about email security
Apr 17: Be still my rolling Pencil
Apr 15: From clips to stories
Apr 13: Thoughts on iOS automation
Apr 9: And, not or

March 2017

Mar 29: LaTeX comes to Pages
Mar 14: LiquidText 3.0 redefines what's possible with a PDF and an iPad once again

January 2017

Jan 15: Next fun
Jan 15: The cost of monetization
Jan 14: Regular expressions and Sublime Text
Jan 4: Use universal clipboard to alleviate iCloud password pain
Jan 3: Simple PDF saved search tip
Jan 2: To don't streaks

December 2016

Dec 28: Things I got better at in 2016: Part 2 -- Time and project management
Dec 28: Things I got better at in 2016: Part 1 – Technology
Dec 23: The best things I read and listened to in 2016
Dec 21: More macOS Preview PDF trouble
Dec 4: Pandoc and Python

November 2016

Nov 30: Two great iPhone scanning apps
Nov 29: Inbox self flagellation

October 2016

Oct 21: Fraud culture survived the financial crisis
Oct 7: Tables are hard unless you own TableFlip

September 2016

Sep 20: Diverting screenshots from the Desktop
Sep 13: Survivor
Sep 9: Applauding the epitome
Sep 8: Pros and cons of the wireless future

August 2016

Aug 30: Decoupling the original vision
Aug 29: It was the glass-half-emptiest of times
Aug 25: A penny for your apps
Aug 12: Procrastination is for the over-serious
Aug 5: DEVONthink To Go 2
Aug 4: Ulysses batch export
Aug 3: On the perfect note taking app

July 2016

Jul 31: Exporting math to English
Jul 20: Embrace struggle and repetition
Jul 17: How to make terrorism worse
Jul 14: On the current state of my content
Jul 13: The role of aesthetics in information systems
Jul 12: App review resolution

June 2016

Jun 18: Macro laws
Jun 17: What does it mean to be a man?
Jun 12: Your brain's blind spots
Jun 8: ScreenFlow 6
Jun 4: The worst way to measure human value

May 2016

May 19: Creating less work
May 11: Fear more
May 5: Begging the question
May 2: I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself

April 2016

Apr 30: Ascertaining one's immortality
Apr 25: Twitter is back on my phone
Apr 24: Outsmarting the smart dash
Apr 21: The foot hammock
Apr 19: A water cooler gone wrong
Apr 13: I use it, but would I recommend it?
Apr 11: I still wear the Apple Watch
Apr 7: A contrarian theory about software developers
Apr 5: Software as a perception
Apr 3: Static and free
Apr 3: New RSS Feed

March 2016

Mar 31: Productive OmniFocus styling
Mar 28: Thoughts on iPad and Mac convergence
Mar 19: Better
Mar 15: Markdown to LaTeX via Pandoc
Mar 9: Tightening Alfred file filters even more
Mar 8: HBR interviews Kevin Spacey
Mar 6: On the bad design of everyday things
Mar 5: Creative versus predictable outcomes
Mar 2: When the dark side of practicality defeats security

February 2016

Feb 23: Cave text
Feb 14: On graphical morality: it takes two to lie

January 2016

Jan 22: Decision time
Jan 15: Twitter update
Jan 4: Copied: shared clipboard for iOS and OS X

December 2015

Dec 23: Dimming Twitter
Dec 16: The last resource
Dec 8: Deliveries
Dec 5: The Apple Watch Eight Months Later
Dec 5: So much more than a desk

November 2015

Nov 23: Dropzone

September 2015

Sep 4: Truth in magic
Sep 2: Realpolitik TV

August 2015

July 2015

Jul 24: We ship with pretty decent video software
Jul 21: "Work"
Jul 8: We killed leisure
Jul 1: Systematic

June 2015

Jun 30: How Humans Save
Jun 27: Strangers in a strange time
Jun 25: Smart Title Case in Sublime Text
Jun 24: How do I love Sublime Text's multiple cursors?
Jun 20: Duck and search
Jun 15: Time-caring theory
Jun 11: Clockwise
Jun 2: 529 moon shot

May 2015

May 28: Time to stand
May 27: Honesty as corporate enterprise risk management strategy
May 27: App Camp for Girls 3.0
May 25: Training happier employees
May 24: Weather lines and Apple Watch
May 20: My adventure so far with Photos and other mythology
May 17: Peak U
May 16: TechTonic
May 12: A little simple goes a long way

April 2015

March 2015

Mar 26: Fantastically useful
Mar 26: The market value of your data
Mar 25: Neil deGrasse Tyson on 60 Minutes
Mar 24: Comparing my Fitbit One and iPhone 6
Mar 23: Agile's open letter to banks
Mar 18: Explaining bad news bias
Mar 16: What's an actuarian?
Mar 9: Make that a double
Mar 3: The Workflow Video Field Guide

February 2015

Feb 26: When Smart Sorting Smarts
Feb 24: It is expected that passive voice will continue to annoy me
Feb 22: Cosmos
Feb 13: Loose thoughts sink costs
Feb 11: Slate's Working
Feb 3: Breaker breaker 1-9

January 2015

Jan 27: Because that's what we did last time
Jan 21: The survival of the beautiful
Jan 18: The ascent of failure
Jan 16: On Overcast and overwork
Jan 16: How to draw lines and influence people
Jan 11: A better pocket knife with Launch Center Pro and Pythonista
Jan 10: Caught in our own net

December 2014

Dec 31: The only free economy
Dec 13: OmniFocus outside of the GTD box

November 2014

Nov 25: OS X Shell Tricks
Nov 25: Twice the gender, twice the sales
Nov 20: RegexOne
Nov 20: All data go to hell
Nov 19: Snapback Actions in ScreenFlow 5
Nov 12: Clink and sync
Nov 9: All thumbs
Nov 7: Read Later is dead
Nov 2: Rest begets

July 2014

Jul 13: Adding a little more awesome to Alfred and Alpha
Jul 11: Evaluating LaTeX code with Alfred and Wolfram Alpha
Jul 8: Using Little Snitch to lower your LTE bill
Jul 3: On productivity, self perception, measurement, and ethic

June 2014

Jun 6: The dead line

April 2014

Apr 29: Only the sound of the keys changed

November 2013

Nov 19: Online education: We're learning what doesn't work
Nov 18: The MacSparky Email Field Guide
Nov 18: Don't bring a knife to a punch down fight

September 2013

Sep 6: A net as big as the sea

August 2013

Aug 21: Leaning back

July 2013

Jul 31: Retro tip: Cmd-P-P
Jul 24: Crazy talk about email

June 2013

Jun 28: Dispatch: the mail app I didn't delete
Jun 25: Replanting the RSS forest
Jun 25: Clarify: screenshot-based documentation evolved

May 2013

May 30: Illusions of inbox control
May 23: When too many right-clicks make a wrong
May 22: Corporate taxes: reverse the spotlight
May 15: Spreadsheet past, present, and future
May 13: Solving the email-while-on-vacation problem
May 13: A posthumous interview with George Carlin
May 12: Be an actor

March 2013

Mar 21: A book called Markdown
Mar 6: More network controls in OS X, please
Mar 3: Yahoo: a neologism for discrimination against creativity, art, and innovation

February 2013

Feb 16: The coming to Jesus review
Feb 15: Silicon Valley and the way we were

January 2013

Jan 29: PDF to Keynote in a few keystrokes
Jan 23: Praise for Evernote
Jan 23: Don't say the 'e' word
Jan 16: nvALT is alive and quite well
Jan 15: No AAPL, no pain
Jan 13: Pie for one
Jan 13: Generational GTD
Jan 9: Try working 3 to 5

December 2012

Dec 18: How to bifurcate the workday
Dec 18: Don't witch-hunt the ones we need the most
Dec 17: So this is parenting
Dec 14: A few iPhone apps I installed this week
Dec 12: Checkvist

November 2012

Nov 29: Working with LaTeX in Sublime Text 2
Nov 19: Repairing our nests
Nov 9: On the occurrence of bad things

October 2012

Oct 26: Thoughts on Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational
Oct 26: In case you need another reason to freeze your credit
Oct 22: Unsharing is caring
Oct 4: Using TextExpander to build advanced search forms
Oct 3: 60 Mountain Lion Tips

September 2012

Sep 30: Backup doesn't necessarily mean restorable
Sep 28: RSS update: Yeah, I'm leaving Feedburner, too
Sep 28: From Pawn Stars to classic book rabbit holes
Sep 22: Generational No. 2
Sep 19: iPad math apps
Sep 15: More than 50 years of persecution
Sep 12: Not still again
Sep 6: All good text editors come to an end
Sep 4: KeyRemap4MacBook
Sep 1: Practically Efficient moves to Squarespace 6

August 2012

Aug 10: It's the notes you take after the meeting
Aug 2: My turn to talk about Dark Sky

July 2012

June 2012

Jun 24: Travel talk
Jun 14: Brick by brick
Jun 10: The color of creativity
Jun 7: Extremely easy wireless networking

May 2012

May 31: Revisiting secure Dropbox sharing
May 29: Reading PDF later
May 26: Swimming lessons
May 23: My Macworld Instapaper article
May 14: We're not all destined to program
May 9: The Field Guide to Paperless
May 5: Why I look at OmniFocus

April 2012

Apr 15: Inactivity is bad, but constantly throwing your hands up in the air is worse
Apr 11: Let's not be friends
Apr 10: Converting paper to magic on the iPad
Apr 9: Your time
Apr 8: Marked turns 1.4
Apr 8: A few notes in and on Byword
Apr 7: LaunchBar + Path Finder

March 2012

Mar 30: A mental algorithm for safer sending
Mar 26: Innovation, defined by its buyers
Mar 21: A highly incomplete and barely passable review of the new iPad, which you're
Mar 16: 1Password: Medicine for forgotten wallets
Mar 6: The tax that funds busyness to nowhere
Mar 5: On wearing big boy pants to work
Mar 2: Hazel 3 nested conditions
Mar 2: Exercise different
Mar 1: A workflow epic: How I use my Mac to teach over the web

February 2012

Feb 29: Apps make the computer
Feb 27: Just hire the accountant
Feb 20: Moom snap shots
Feb 16: 1Password: 1. Think, 2. Go
Feb 14: The side economy
Feb 6: Me on how I write
Feb 3: If that standing desk isn't working out...

January 2012

Jan 20: iBooks Author: a preface
Jan 19: Steven's notebook
Jan 17: You are what you type
Jan 12: The forgotten manuals
Jan 6: The PowerCurve
Jan 1: More from Charlie Park on slopegraphs

December 2011

Dec 27: Steve Jobs via Walter Isaacson
Dec 21: A few stocking stuffer apps
Dec 19: TextExpander, meetings, your imagination
Dec 16: Wanted: 21st century cave drawers
Dec 14: Coca-Cola Freestyle: Drowning us in choice
Dec 12: Why I still use paper and pens
Dec 9: Practical generosity
Dec 8: Jailbreaking your self-worth
Dec 6: Moom: my favorite window manager
Dec 5: The Kindle Touch: From the perspective of someone who's only read e-books
Dec 2: Generation C
Dec 1: Microsoft: watching the ships go by

November 2011

Nov 29: Marked: it does email, too
Nov 28: Personal finance that you can touch
Nov 25: The case for boring charts
Nov 23: Be thankful. For information.
Nov 22: OmniFocus: 1. Capture, 2. Organize
Nov 21: Talk about your favorite apps
Nov 18: Adding PDFpen to the e-check workflow
Nov 17: Mr. Reader
Nov 16: Emotion and failure
Nov 15: Remove unwanted love handles from PDF in seconds
Nov 13: Redesigns
Nov 11: Ignorance before focus
Nov 9: How I take my Gmail
Nov 8: Hey Brett and Byword, get a room
Nov 7: A Bank of America rant, then online check deposit made easy with Hazel and
Nov 4: Creating software license items in 1Password - breakneck speed edition
Nov 3: "But it doesn't do spreadsheets"
Nov 2: Managing our many selves
Nov 1: Messy studios make great art

October 2011

Oct 31: Acting through uncertainty
Oct 28: So. How is your backup situation?
Oct 27: QuickCal
Oct 26: Straight talk for pocket pack rats
Oct 25: More reason to love Mail 5 search
Oct 24: My calendar: Still iCloudy, with a chance of spam
Oct 21: Before you just let it go...
Oct 20: One line at a time #23: iOS 5 Weather
Oct 19: If (no) Then yes; loop
Oct 18: "Finally" I join Huffduffer
Oct 17: Google+ and me
Oct 14: Reminder: your battery is OK
Oct 14: iPhone scanning
Oct 14: Apps, actuaries, oh my
Oct 13: My iCloud calendar experiment
Oct 13: Buy the best iPhone. Don't over-think it.
Oct 12: 2 seconds
Oct 11: One line at a time #22: B!GB0Y!
Oct 10: If you're emailing annotated PDFs...
Oct 9: OmniFocus project search via LaunchBar or Alfred
Oct 8: Marked 1.3
Oct 7: Impressions of the 4S
Oct 5: Steve
Oct 5: The duality of less and more
Oct 4: One line at a time #21: ScreenFloat
Oct 3: The cost of not buying good software

September 2011

Sep 30: Choice is beautiful, productive even
Sep 29: Searching for a flatter future
Sep 28: The importance of feature search
Sep 27: Beating my head against a 2x4
Sep 27: One line at a time #20: Simplenote, food, marital harmony
Sep 26: You should ______
Sep 24: Yuvi's take on "Obsession x Voice"
Sep 23: My love affair with a very special maid
Sep 22: Dueling screen theories
Sep 21: Performance, lost in translation
Sep 20: One line at a time #19: Mac Screenshots
Sep 19: Dictionary.app
Sep 16: Alarming decisions
Sep 15: The state of investment apps
Sep 14: Some people get search. Some don't.
Sep 13: One line at a time #18: OS X Mail, Gmail
Sep 12: It's not Everynote
Sep 9: The best first line in an email I've seen in months
Sep 9: Bending the stiffest arrow
Sep 8: The art of email @ work
Sep 7: Windows Explorer 8, Tomorrow, and Yesterday
Sep 6: One line at a time #17: Path Finder
Sep 5: It's Labor Day. Relax.
Sep 2: Cleaning up inline Markdown links
Sep 2: Even more ways to automate writing in Markdown
Sep 1: The third dimension of computing: sync
Sep 1: FWD: FWD: FWD: Just don't

August 2011

Aug 31: The absent self-leverage genre
Aug 30: Inserting page numbers with PDFpen
Aug 30: One line at a time #16: TextExpander
Aug 29: Praise, hugs, and kisses for Soulver
Aug 27: Arq 2
Aug 26: The software economy
Aug 25: Apple people
Aug 24: Thanks
Aug 24: The medium matters more than ever
Aug 24: 2011: A Patent Odyssey
Aug 23: One line at a time #15: Lion Spotlight
Aug 22: Note-taking in OmniFocus
Aug 19: Here lies X. He was so busy.
Aug 18: Doing works more often than asking
Aug 18: Marked: And then there was 1.2
Aug 17: Sour AAPLs
Aug 16: One line at a time #14: 1Password, Safari
Aug 15: LaunchBar recent items
Aug 14: Failing at failure
Aug 13: The industry that HTML forgot
Aug 12: Long live TextMate
Aug 11: And now toward more bits of entropy
Aug 11: Auto-pairing in nvALT
Aug 10: Byword review
Aug 9: One line at a time #13: LaunchBar
Aug 8: I don't know, but I can find out
Aug 6: Lion Recovery: just works
Aug 5: The pageantry of tagging
Aug 4: Errors are essential for survival
Aug 3: How not to give your country a competitive edge
Aug 2: One line at a time #12: Byword, nvALT, Simplenote
Aug 1: The lord of all text editor analogies
Aug 1: Reworking patents for a world with only two ideas

July 2011

Jul 29: A someday/maybe solution
Jul 29: A tale of two piggy banks
Jul 29: nvALT 2.1 plus browser goodies
Jul 28: Efficiently handling email attachments with LaunchBar
Jul 27: Not as I do
Jul 26: Adaptive scrolling
Jul 26: One line at a time #11: Dropbox
Jul 25: Versions
Jul 22: Naturally, I have some comments about scrolling
Jul 22: Tweaking the packing project
Jul 21: Think of Microsoft Word as the internet
Jul 20: "Success might be the end of your happiness"
Jul 19: One line at a time #10: Marked
Jul 18: As you look through the gate of Google+
Jul 15: On juggling and slashing slashes
Jul 14: The brave, rural brain
Jul 13: Head math rehab
Jul 12: Marked.app
Jul 12: One line at a time #9: Mailplane
Jul 11: Suburbs of stuff
Jul 8: Once a toy
Jul 7: A lifelong optimization problem
Jul 6: The cost of opportunity cost
Jul 5: One line at a time #8: New PDF in Preview
Jul 4: Independence
Jul 1: Listary: Have your plain text and check it off, too
Jul 1: AWS goes from cheap to nearly free

June 2011

Jun 30: Win-win time wasting
Jun 30: Contexts that know no bounds
Jun 29: Life atop a password bubble
Jun 28: One line at a time #7: OmniFocus for iPad
Jun 27: Set c = change
Jun 24: A tale of two fly papers
Jun 23: The importance of password education right now
Jun 22: Mobile risk
Jun 21: One line at a time #6: LaunchBar
Jun 21: +1 for math
Jun 20: Bye Quicken, hello iBank
Jun 18: The week in nvALT
Jun 17: A chilling story about identity theft
Jun 16: Love secrets
Jun 16: Merlin on consistency
Jun 15: Personal risk management in the cloud
Jun 14: One line at a time #5: Save as PDF
Jun 14: Follow up on "App over file"
Jun 13: All's fair in art and work
Jun 12: App over file
Jun 10: Yuvi on time management for the parent/writer
Jun 9: OmniFocus for Windows and for all
Jun 8: The practicality of benevolence
Jun 7: One line at a time #4: TextExpander
Jun 6: Free, plain text GTD using Notational Velocity
Jun 4: Windows (Procrastin)8
Jun 4: Open Sans it is
Jun 3: Between the now- and new-normal
Jun 2: A folderless future
Jun 1: Work, meet fun. Fun, work.

May 2011

May 31: Help me pick PE’s font and you might just win a PDFpenPro license
May 31: One line at a time #3: OmniFocus
May 30: Your hunger for OmniFocus, satisfied
May 30: How to automatically eject a disk image
May 27: Is that a dragon in your pocket?
May 26: MultiMarkdown table tips
May 25: More on paperless (not mindless)
May 24: One line at a time #2: iOS Safari
May 23: Loving my ScanSnap S1100
May 22: A cheap workflow snapshot
May 22: Mark Krieg on commute survival
May 20: WorkAwesome
May 20: About bad customer service online (i.e. IE)
May 19: Learning to live well
May 18: The wrong investment
May 18: One line at a time #1: Preview
May 17: Thoughts are from me; posts are from Mars(Edit)
May 16: A slightly entropic post on OmniFocus financial management
May 15: OmniOutliner for iPad: first impressions
May 14: I'm not mad at Microsoft
May 13: Thinking about ditching your Blackberry? Don't. Please?
May 12: The problem with via
May 11: Gesundheit
May 10: Taking a stand
May 10: 1Password fun fact
May 9: The thankless 'superjob' and the pursuit of unhappiness
May 9: The new sedentary
May 6: OmniFocus : Project : Pack and stay sane
May 5: They should expect less of you
May 4: Google finally getting big?
May 2: Death, taxes, and now, lack of privacy

April 2011

Apr 30: Misadventures in productivity automation
Apr 29: iParent with the iPhone
Apr 28: What's right with the Mac App Store
Apr 27: Weather apps
Apr 27: Attention debt
Apr 26: How to update Dropbox
Apr 26: Footnotes and Instapaper
Apr 25: OmniFocus : The Admin List
Apr 25: Thanks, Merlin
Apr 25: I like Arq
Apr 22: OmniFocus : How To : Wait Better
Apr 21: Dropbox, photos, and iOS
Apr 20: What’s your business case for not owning an app phone?
Apr 19: Running down consistency
Apr 18: Reminder: Google's calculator is pretty good
Apr 16: Thanks
Apr 15: Waking up
Apr 13: I became a dad last night
Apr 12: Faster Spotlight search using, you guessed it, TextExpander
Apr 11: S3 sirens me deeper into the cloud
Apr 10: MPU: Dropbox Awesomeness
Apr 9: Keyboard Maestro Markdown Macros
Apr 8: Make
Apr 7: Still loving Build and Analyze
Apr 6: TextExpander thought snippets
Apr 5: Evolving the word processor
Apr 5: And speaking of Notational Velocity: nvALT 2.0 is out
Apr 4: Writing Markdown using LaunchBar and TextExpander [Screencast]
Apr 4: Long live the in-line reply
Apr 1: Worldwide backup day
Apr 1: The art of Ricky Gervais

March 2011

Mar 31: You're probably not using TextEdit enough
Mar 30: Text file X games
Mar 29: Writing Markdown in Notational Velocity 101
Mar 28: The powerful, mystical Spotlight. On steroids.
Mar 25: Smart font scaling
Mar 25: Scanner Pro
Mar 24: Dropbox: the way we were, are, and will be (hopefully)
Mar 23: Checking things off in Notational Velocity
Mar 23: What Android's tablet struggles can teach you about life
Mar 22: My sentiments, inexactly
Mar 21: All games and no play
Mar 19: A few comments about comments
Mar 18: rsync + Automator = free and easy backups for your Mac
Mar 17: TE-Snippets
Mar 17: How to make money in bed
Mar 16: It's not about the iPad
Mar 15: So OmniFocus, what now? (part 2)
Mar 14: So OmniFocus, what now?
Mar 13: A prettier Pinboard
Mar 12: Scrivener from Yuvi's POV
Mar 11: Securer file sharing with Dropbox
Mar 10: The notification iOasis
Mar 9: My thoughts on the brothers iPad
Mar 8: Notes on notetaking
Mar 7: Kitchen island zero
Mar 4: How lived is a life of constant immediacy?
Mar 2: How to work offline when your brain's name server fails

February 2011

Feb 28: When will wireless happen?
Feb 25: The luckiest generation?
Feb 24: In review: Creating Flow with OmniFocus
Feb 24: Data: It was the best of times, it was the. . .
Feb 23: OmniFocus barriers to entry
Feb 22: A guest post by my primal subconscious
Feb 21: The anti-(anti-meeting) perspective
Feb 18: How to bend time to your will and destroy barriers to productivity
Feb 17: On trying to people-please your way to awesomeness
Feb 16: 63 weeks with Android. 1 week with the iPhone.
Feb 15: Use TextExpander to format numbers with a thousands separator
Feb 14: Still liking iThoughtsHD
Feb 12: Touch me
Feb 11: Merlin Mann puts OmniFocus perspectives in perspective at Macworld
Feb 11: Financial statements, TextExpander, Hazel, and you
Feb 10: Correlating skill and chance
Feb 9: Avoiding Notational Viscosity
Feb 8: Answer complexity with simplicity
Feb 7: My OmniFocus experiment – the beginning (kinda)
Feb 6: TextExpander firestorm
Feb 4: Stretching out
Feb 4: A recipe for Facebook lemonade
Feb 3: TextExpander and Lorem Ipsum geekery
Feb 3: Eddie's road to the iPhone
Feb 2: Where do you go when you really need to get work done?
Feb 1: Learning OmniFocus [updated]
Feb 1: A thousand thanks

January 2011

Jan 31: Treasure the A.M.
Jan 28: No more Archive.zip
Jan 27: Has the iPad made meetings better or worse?
Jan 26: Using an iTunes playlist as an interruption meter
Jan 26: How to collect Kindle quotations using PDFpen
Jan 25: "The future is in text"
Jan 24: How to get better deals: Ask.
Jan 21: Jailbreak your ideas-turned-projects with OPML
Jan 20: The plight of the time salesman
Jan 19: Markdown service bliss
Jan 18: Word auto-completion in Mac OS X
Jan 18: Back to work during non-business hours
Jan 17: Stupidity tax evasion
Jan 14: What Westerners can learn from the Chinese about failure
Jan 13: A super easy way to create visual aids in OS X
Jan 12: The day internet killed the (talk) radio star
Jan 11: My compulsory acknowledgement of the Verizon iPhone
Jan 11: Divvy up and conquer your screen
Jan 10: Mac at Work: the book, the review, the interview
Jan 9: Scrivener + TextMate + Markdown
Jan 7: Writing makes a 'one thing well' world work
Jan 6: Pinboard: the cement in my 'read later' workflow
Jan 5: Manual management with Evernote, GoodReader, and an iPad
Jan 4: 5by5's Build and Analyze
Jan 3: Why have I not tried virtual assistants before?

December 2010

Dec 31: Thinking about New Year's resolutions
Dec 30: DisplayPad made my iPad cheaper
Dec 29: The upside to downgrading
Dec 27: nvALT 1.0.4
Dec 27: About those boxes you just got
Dec 24: Eves
Dec 23: Math on a Mac
Dec 22: The Flipboard I want
Dec 21: MarkdownNote
Dec 20: Circumnavigating the shortcut
Dec 18: Manually upgrade to the latest version of Dropbox on your Mac
Dec 17: Tidy up text on the fly with WordService
Dec 16: Life sort of happens
Dec 15: Don't be afraid to ask fewer questions
Dec 14: Take advantage of the password mistakes of others
Dec 13: Need better text hygiene? Try CleanHaven.
Dec 11: Notational Velocity ALT by Brett Terpstra
Dec 10: Pay attention as mobile and desktop converge
Dec 9: The Chrome web store
Dec 8: Dueling thoughts on dual monitors
Dec 7: A nod to The Big Web Show
Dec 6: How to read stuff you hate
Dec 3: Resign to waste time
Dec 2: Still keeping the iPad simple
Dec 1: Evernote and tactical Christmas shopping

November 2010

Nov 30: How will Gen Y manage to stay put?
Nov 29: Modern myopia, happiness, and a little sex
Nov 24: Avoid the Newlywed Game with 1Password
Nov 23: How to write a novel when you're too busy
Nov 22: Turbo charge your copy/paste routine with LaunchBar
Nov 19: Nature abhors a contrarian; loves a winner
Nov 18: Taking a closer look at the three-finger brush
Nov 17: Evolving email: the power of thanks and more
Nov 16: Markdown and MultiMarkdown: Mac Power User style
Nov 15: Use Instapaper to promote others by putting them last
Nov 12: Steven Frank on Notational Velocity, workflows, and more
Nov 11: Dragging a link across browsers on a Mac
Nov 10: Evolving email: avoid passivity
Nov 8: The next chapter of books (us)
Nov 7: Thanks for following
Nov 5: Scrivener 2.0 and a vocabulary lesson
Nov 5: Notational Velocity tagging without the tag field
Nov 4: Mark Krieg shares a Mac workflow success story
Nov 3: Evolving email: walk away from the duel
Nov 2: A wolf in (Fire)sheep’s clothing
Nov 1: Procrastination as an asset

October 2010

Oct 29: The right side of inertia: a backup workflow story
Oct 28: Streamlining your voicemail workflow
Oct 27: Evolving email: the war on email obesity
Oct 26: Email and guest blogging
Oct 25: Notational Velocity: save as HTML
Oct 22: Working, traveling in the cloud(s)
Oct 21: Distraction-free writing, in video
Oct 20: Evolving email: reply back in black
Oct 18: Monkey business
Oct 15: Over-analyzing John Gruber's 'Apple and the Open Web'
Oct 14: Notational Velocity with fullscreen mode
Oct 13: Evolving email: how to send a link
Oct 11: Notational Velocity with MultiMarkdown and QuickLook
Oct 10: MarkdownMail for iPad: a mobile web writer's dream come true
Oct 8: My iPad home screen
Oct 8: Evolving email
Oct 6: Everything I know about Instapaper [updated]
Oct 4: Solving the pesky 'read later link' email
Oct 1: Checking off September 2010

September 2010

Sep 30: More on TextExpander and Markdown
Sep 29: A call for folks interested in working on Notational Velocity
Sep 28: The adjacent possible
Sep 27: Think (and redact) before you send
Sep 24: iRrationality and mobile apps
Sep 23: Oh no, not ANOTHER post on passwords
Sep 22: How to be in the same place as your grocery list
Sep 21: Why I'm not jumping up and down for 4.2
Sep 20: To RSS hell and back
Sep 17: It's an inbox, not a task list [uncomplicating email]
Sep 15: You've (still) got mail
Sep 13: Make one task pile to rule them all
Sep 10: Parkinson's Law
Sep 9: MarkdownMail
Sep 8: The two-browser recipe for increased productivity
Sep 7: James Shelley on success
Sep 6: What's 20 percent of your time worth?
Sep 3: A moment for the mundane
Sep 2: Email triage and the promise of priority inbox
Sep 1: Mind mapping on the iPad with iThoughtsHD

August 2010

Aug 31: Checking off August 2010
Aug 30: Talking Macs with Katie Floyd
Aug 27: Note to self: bundles are beautiful
Aug 26: Note to self: take action
Aug 25: Note to self: get your priorities straight
Aug 24: Note to self: what's a due date?
Aug 23: Note to self: make better hurdles
Aug 20: A little of this and that
Aug 19: The first 5
Aug 18: Scrivener 2.0 update - a summary
Aug 17: Augmenting focus
Aug 16: Breaking the seal
Aug 13: A recipe for moving text from Evernote to Notational Velocity
Aug 12: First today, then tomorrow
Aug 11: Creation through recombination
Aug 10: Use LaunchBar to quickly add attachments to web-based Gmail
Aug 9: My spreadsheet to MultiMarkdown table workflow
Aug 6: Thinking about my thought capture tools
Aug 5: Thinking about thought capture and how to make it happen
Aug 4: Shoot down the autopilot and pay as you go
Aug 3: Mac productivity software
Aug 2: On the future of computer design and media ownership
Aug 1: Some nice updates to Kindle for iPad

July 2010

Jul 29: Sunsetting on July 2010
Jul 28: Create a file vault on your Mac with secure disk images
Jul 27: How to turn Hazel into a security guard for your Mac
Jul 26: The perils of persistent data
Jul 23: Instapaper is a great e-book companion too
Jul 22: Bringing the power of Simplenote to Android
Jul 21: Instant-on is the new black
Jul 20: Creativityist: a great resource for Mac writing workflows
Jul 19: Fighting the war on terror in our heads
Jul 16: Remember the Milk for Android just got way better
Jul 15: Averting email toxicity
Jul 14: iPads and education: it just makes sense
Jul 13: Using TextExpander and Notational Velocity for fast, efficient writing
Jul 12: Simplifying some more
Jul 9: Friday humor: Did Kubrick predict the iPad?
Jul 8: Take 1Password with you on your Android phone
Jul 7: Talking logistically about a Verizon iPhone
Jul 6: Why Kindle is tops for e-reading
Jul 5: Applying timeless social principles to modern life
Jul 2: Makin' copies: the beginning of digital content creation
Jul 1: My relationship and history with mobile technology and the iPhone

June 2010

Jun 30: Mac file dragging tip
Jun 29: A ripe Fraise
Jun 28: Andy Kessler talks about the iPhone, net neutrality and the FCC
Jun 25: A quick joy ride in the new Microsoft Word web app
Jun 24: Good news for consumers: a data plan war seems to be brewing
Jun 23: Steve Jobs on consumer choice
Jun 22: Getting uncluttered with Evernote and Instapaper
Jun 19: Is Microsoft Office 'Help' tough love or just bad?
Jun 17: How I conquered the email newsletter in my GTD system
Jun 16: If you fail to plan. . .
Jun 13: Use TextExpander to correct duplicate words
Jun 11: Is unlimited data going extinct?
Jun 10: My take on the iPad as an e-reader, iBooks, and Kindle [Updated]
Jun 8: The future, again
Jun 4: Yes, touch typing is possible on the iPad
Jun 1: Building a better writing workflow with Notational Velocity, MultiMarkdown,

May 2010

May 27: New clothes
May 27: How long will Microsoft stand and watch?
May 19: My MultiMarkdown writing workflow with LaunchBar and Hazel
May 14: Password break and recap
May 10: 1Password: my top recommendation for password management on a Mac
May 3: Tips for password management on a PC

April 2010

Apr 27: Continuing our password journey: moving from complexity to simplicity
Apr 19: More perils along the journey to a better password
Apr 17: Another great password trick
Apr 12: Update and a tip
Apr 6: Continuing our quest for a better password
Apr 3: The iPad is a golf cart
Apr 1: Start caring about passwords

March 2010

Mar 30: What the iPad's really about
Mar 27: If you're concerned about safe web browsing, Chrome is worth a look
Mar 24: Improve your web writing by getting back to basics with MultiMarkdown
Mar 21: Welcome!
Mar 17: Windows Phone forgets how to copy and paste
Mar 14: The iPad paradox: Less is more
Mar 9: Evernote for Mac Update (1.7.1)
Mar 8: Opinion: Time to get smart about smartphones
Mar 4: Note to MS: It's time to leave the "hard" world behind
Mar 3: To Freeware Makers: Please charge me. . . something
Mar 3: Fear not: safer web browsing is really easy
Mar 2: Mobile technology is becoming a travel necessity
Mar 1: Hints & Tips: Google Chrome for Mac

February 2010

Feb 27: The crystal ball approach to prioritization and well-being
Feb 26: PleaseRobMe highlights dangers of over-sharing online
Feb 24: Health tip: consume more information in your diet
Feb 16: Are you driving yourself crazy?