Working Smart
After reading Ben Brooks’ recent post on OmniFocus start dates, I thought I’d take a moment to talk about how my personal usage of start dates has changed as my OmniFocus workflow has evolved over the years.
I’ll quickly pile on to the oft-repeated sentiments on SSD – it makes a huge difference, and I can’t imagine ever going back. My boot time is light years faster, I’ve yet to see a bouncing dock icon since the upgrade, and my machine is more snappy and responsive than ever before. The biggest surprise though wasn’t the speed boost. It was discovering how lightweight I could operate my Mac and how liberating that was.
I couldn’t be more excited about the update to Simplenote this week, and in recognition of this update to an already great app, Patrick Rhone asked us all, “What’s in Your Simplenote?” Here’s my list: Notes I take during important phone calls. IP addresses, server names, account setup instructions, folder paths, and other miscellaneous “IT” [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
Configure the Bookmarks Bar in Safari for bookmarklets and bookmark groups.
Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up access to the Safari Bookmarks Bar.