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The largest benefit to using a to-do/task manager like OmniFocus isn’t the satisfaction of staying on top of tasks, or even the reward of getting those tasks done. It’s the feeling of relief you get to feel when you know you have a lot of tasks on your mind, and you dump all of those…

It’s a niche use case but when I need it, nothing is better than a mind map, and MindNode is a fantastic tool for building them. If you’ve never used mind maps before, I highly recommend them. At their core they’re just an outline, but they’re presented on an infinite canvas. When presented like this,…

When macOS Mojave introduced an overhaul to their screenshots feature to make it similar to how iOS does screenshots, I was really excited initially and pretty quickly gave up on it; it’s weird to use and doesn’t really support drag and drop. Last year I stumbled across CleanShot X, which is like if Skitch and…

About a year ago I made a big switch in my paperless life: I retired Evernote and decided to use DEVONthink instead. As my past posts might indicate, I was a hard-core Evernote user. But DEVONthink is a far better values fit for me. DEVONthink feels like someone made a Mac-only version of Evernote for…

One of the most striking things about TextMate for me is just how long it’s been a part of my life. I’ve been using TextMate for almost 15 years now. TextMate has been with me through most of college, when as a poor college student I got it as part of the first MacHeist bundle.…

I own a Herman Miller Aeron (size C, the biggest one), and an Embody (which comes in one size), and both are excellent. There isn’t much I can say about the Aeron; it’s an iconic office chair design and if you walk into just about any VC-funded startup you are likely to see an Aeron…

You might think with my fancy keyboard that I might be using some similarly obscure artisan mouse. Nope! I’m a huge fan of the Magic Mouse. I bought one the first day it was available for sale in Apple Stores in 2009. Most of the entire top surface of the Magic Mouse is a touch-sensitive…

“Assume Positive Intent”, I assume, is a concept that was created with positive intent (see what I did there?). It is one of those rules that, on the face of it, sounds completely reasonable and can be used to great effect. In distributed companies or communities where a lot of communication is written, it can…

I hope that this year, Apple completely revamps the springboard and app/window management on iPad. The whole “icons and windows and cursor” based UI the Mac first popularized is a really solid foundation. The fact that most computer OS interfaces today use the same paradigm shows that we finally nailed the overall GUI for desktop…