From the category archives:

Working Smart

Finding the Balance Point

July 15, 2010

I started a pretty serious test-run of TaskPaper as my GTD app this week in place of OmniFocus, so reading this in David Allen’s email newsletter today could not have been more timely. While it’s still too early for me to say for sure if I’m sticking with it, the allure of TaskPaper is exactly what David Allen talks about above. It gives you exactly what you need, but nothing more.

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37 Signals: How Do You Turn Inspiration Into Skill?

June 19, 2010

So I got thinking. How did I develop the basic skills I have right now? Mostly by copying heroes. When you’re fresh starting out, you have no fear of diving in and copying something directly. It’s like playing guitar. When you start playing guitar all you want to do is play the first verse of [...]

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A Keyboard Shortcut to Autofill Your Saved 1Password Logins

May 19, 2010

I can’t believe I’ve been using 1Password for who knows how long and did not realize there was a keyboard shortcut to autofill your saved 1Password logins. I always assumed that since there wasn’t one listed under the 1P menu, it didn’t exist and was a miss by Agile Web Solutions. Well, I will never doubt them again.

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Bookmarklets and the Bookmarks Bar for Safari on the iPad

April 4, 2010

Configure the Bookmarks Bar in Safari for bookmarklets and bookmark groups.

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Are You a Filer or a Piler?

January 10, 2010

Patrick Rhone of Minimal Mac defines a “filer” versus a “piler”.

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Create LaunchBar Search Template for Find People Search on Twitter

December 13, 2009

How to create a LaunchBar search template for Twitter “Find People” search.

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Remove Search Templates from the LaunchBar Index

December 13, 2009

How to remove default search templates from LaunchBar that you don’t want to see in your index.

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Create a LaunchBar Search Template for Twitter

December 13, 2009

How to set up a Twitter search template in LaunchBar.

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LaunchBar Tip: Set Up a Search Template for Gmail Messages

December 11, 2009

How to create a LaunchBar search template for Gmail messages.

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Use Dropbox to Create a Yojimbo iPhone App

October 1, 2009

This morning I read that DropBox announced their new iPhone app, and it occurred to me that you could set up the Dropbox iPhone app to clip images directly into Yojimbo with very minimal effort. I was so pumped. The lack of an iPhone app for Yojimbo was the reason I started using Evernote, so this was a total game changer

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