Setapp is incredible value, but the alternatives are pretty good, too My Setapp subscription ran out last week; I am officially a former Setapp subscriber. After 6 years of happily paying one fee for access to more than 200 apps, it’s time for a break. Not because I’m unhappy with the value (what you get is insanely...

How two iPhone apps help me harness the difference You are here, your deadline is there. It’s time to cross the space between those two points. How do you visualise that intervening time — as counting down, or counting up? As something that is running out, or something that is being filled? I’d never considered...

You really, really don’t need a new app for this I’ve been tracking my loose-to-no-deadline tasks in a Forster list for over a month now. This list lives in an A6 squared notebook that goes with me (almost) everywhere. It’s been a wonderful experience, giving me a great balance between structure and freedom during...

Stop reading now if you aren’t interested in a nuanced take on both of them Photo and text by the author I’m not usually into the would you rather game, but this one on Mastodon caught my attention. We were asked to choose which we preferred: an AI generated poster, or a poster made by hand but set in Comic Sans....

With 7 principles for keeping your app-data safe I love the idea of embracing the tendency to switch tools as a feature, rather than something to be avoided. Maxim said — I’ve tried keeping tasks directly in Obsidian, using Todoist heavily, classic GTD (as much as that’s actually possible), and the PARA method....

How two people selling something taught me about generosity and productivity Photo of hands by Mikhail Nilov, photo of background lights by Ave Calvar Martinez — images altered and combined by me I’ve just read two truly useful articles, pointing to products I have no intention of using. I’m nodding my head at the...

Forster lists, social etiquette and the root of all text Image of crying tree touching the hills taken by me My friends, you might have noticed I did not post anything last week. It’s been a rough and rocky time. The miracle we were praying for did not come to pass (again), but miracles have surrounded us...

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 is way down, in the nicest of ways. The Obsidian queries that run my plugin-free...

But we will, someday, if we ignore him now Photo by Beth Stevenson on Unsplash We were each born with a connection with heaven. Our choices and our focus strengthen or weaken it. A strong connection is a spiritual lifeline, while an unsteady one leaves us open to straying down paths that lead away from happiness....

Plain text tasks, pencil notes, digital caveman-ism, and some OBTF love I’m enjoying a bounty of family life at the moment! It truly is a delight. It’s also a time when most of the spare spaces of my calendar and brain are comfortably full. So this week I will share with you a collection of things that I believe to...

Plus how text based visuals make life harder for the vision impaired This week: Putting money on the table to develop a daily writing habit Text based visuals and the vision impaired Pay yourself to form a writing habit I write words every day. But plenty of days go by where I don’t write write. I’d really like to...

Someone needs your story—choose your timing well and you could change a life Photo by Anthony Metcalfe on Unsplash When I was barely out of my teens and in need of guidance but did not know it, an older and much wiser woman gave me some unsolicited advice. Her name was Leila Edwards. She did it in the best, possibly...