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Getting things done paperless with @OmniFocus
Now I’m no Merlin Mann in terms of my expertise in productivity but being a double major in college and working a number of busy jobs will make you better at managing your time and tasks if you’re going to succeed at it. When I was younger and in school, it was enough for me to just…
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The Instapaper Circlejerk
A lot of the people I follow and respect in the Apple tech circles (Gruber, Dan Benjamin, Siracusa, Matt Gemmell, etc.) are very much enamored with the Instapaper app (an application which allows you to save articles for reading later in an app that beautifully cleans up these articles for reading). Instapaper is always getting…
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On Evernote’s lack of manipulation tools
If you started using Evernote, it probably didn’t take long for you to feel like Evernote’s starting to cramp your style. You can only be so creative if your tools are basically what you can make with a rich text editor. Â To make matters worse, Evernote has remarkably little interest in adding new, more flexible…
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Developing paperless habits: Evernote
Here’s the fun part in which we get into the meat of a paperless lifestyle. You don’t have to use Evernote as your note & snippet repository. It’ll make this article less relevant, but there do exist some direct Evernote competitors. Springpad is a notable one. OneNote is great. Maybe Yojimbo is more your thing.…
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Developing paperless habits: Dropbox
“Why don’t you just wipe your ass with your iPad? –Allison Mitchell Once you have the tools you wish to use to adopt a paperless life, it becomes time to start using the tools. This is by far the most difficult part of the process, because it requires making real, meaningful changes to how you…
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Apple and the 30% cut
I always find it so adorable when I’m talking to someone about Apple’s strategy around the App Store model and they smirkingly explain that Apple’s push toward getting developers to use their app store to sell stuff is all part of a grand scheme to get 30% of their revenue. If you are truly convinced…
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Devil’s in the details indeed
Meant to post this awhile back but I’ve been letting it simmer A post by Mark Vaske re: the Times’s article: The NYT’s article was released at an opportunistic time journalistically speaking after a record quarter and something that is probably historically significant. It reported years old events and figures. Would it have been more…
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Apple unveils iBooks Author
Apple unveils iBooks Author, a Mac app for easy interactive e-book authoring The clever thing about this is that Apple is essentially just making an investment, the return of which is people buying millions more iPads. It closely mirrors Apple’s previous strategy with creating the iTunes Music Store back in the early 2000s. Â The industries…
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Going Paperless
I’ve decided to begin a new series on the joys of living a life devoid of dead trees. It’s an area I have intense passion about and it’s one that I happen to be somewhat on the cutting edge of, which I find surprising given the number of nerds I live around. Paper is so…
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Please, @evernote, get some more discipline!
Once upon a time, there was this little company that developed a simple product that allowed people to take notes on a variety of platforms and have your notes synced in the cloud. People loved the service, and though it had quirks, the company was doing work on making the product better and there was…