Ellane W
Ellane W
Ellane W
I write about future-proof knowledge management and productivity through intentional, responsible use of digital and analog tools. Also the philosophy and spirituality of living a good life, and cool random internet finds.
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Record tasks in chronological order, do them when you’re truly ready Another week to match the last one: full of caring for little people, my grandbabies. Oh, the noise and delights and the detritus of young family life! My screen time...
A casual roundup of productivity tools, tips, and rabbit holes No deep dives today, just a list of worthwhile productivity related things I’ve come across lately. Some universal, most Apple flavoured. Clever (but unnecessary?) Apple...
Nesting queries inside collapsible callouts, plus custom colours and icons It’s true that plain text can be beautiful when it is boring in all the right ways, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun. Let’s take a look at an...
For writing more, without worrying about losing or lending your pen Photo by the Author, taken with a still going strong iPhone 14 Pro I love writing lists and making plans using simple, practical tools. Tools like locally stored plain...
It was a nice surprise to discover that Shottr can replace two apps! I’m slowly working my way through the list of the (Mac-only) Setapp apps I’ve used for years, looking for free or one-time purchase alternatives. Three apps I’ve...
On cautious, informed renting, and the lie of personal ownership Mum on the gas box at the house she and Meema lived in before moving to the cottage Lately I’ve been looking at the subscription software I use, trying to decide what...
A quest for simpler, more independent tools Recently I talked about the importance of owning your work, not just the app you used to create it. Another side of that idea is nicely put in this advice from Trevor Flowers — The best advice...
Hand written text by the Author, 1988 Today I discovered I Write Like, a browser-based Markdown text editor from Koding Robots doo. Apparently, I write like …Corey Doctorow. This is obviously not a comment on my use of expletives! I...
On confidence and slop, and the words that still fit There’s no getting around it; Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ruined some phrases that used to work just fine. I can’t help caring about that, though I wish I didn’t! And so I am...
How to keep your work accessible no matter what happens to the software you used to create it Could you complete your work today if your usual apps were inaccessible? Consider this your wake up call is to store your work in open formats,...
Never lose a hard-won process again This week a potential customer asked me for an evaluation preview of one of my educational PDF ebooks. “No problem!” I said, “I’ll get that to you today.” Right! Time to watermark a lower resolution...
Recently I mentioned that all my to-dos get thrown into one text file, in the todo.txt format. It’s incredibly quick to add new tasks. And once you know some simple formatting rules, it’s also easy to see just the tasks you want to see,...