Topic: Productivity

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• Which Web Browser? (2024)

• The Informed Life with Luc Beaudoin

• Two Types of Personal Journals

• The Informed Life with Joey deVilla

• Apple Vision Pro Hands-on (Heads-on?)

• Using AI as an Assistant to Organize Content

• The Four Laws of Behavior Change

• The Informed Life with Karl Fast

• The Informed Life with Sönke Ahrens

• The Informed Life with Aidan Helfant

• The Informed Life with Nicole van der Hoeven

• Ebooks for Efficient Note-taking

• Note-taking and Note-making

• Second Draft = Second Wind

• How to Take More Effective Notes

• Mind-Tickling Tactics

• Three Use Cases for Notes

• Use Taxonomies to Organize Your Stuff

• How to Avoid Misplacing Things

• How to Use Tags to Manage Your Information

• 3 Strategies for Organizing Information

• On the Challenges of Finding Stuff in Digital Whiteboards

• The Informed Life with Kat King

• Organizing for Future You

• The Informed Life with Sam Ladner

• The Informed Life with Austin Govella

• One Idea, One Note

• The Informed Life with Veronica Erb

• A Shortcut to Create a Markdown Link from Safari in macOS

• Three Types of Notes

• Book Notes: “Genius”

• How to Swallow a Frog

• Book Notes: “How to Take Smart Notes”

• Reclaiming Our Attention with Focus Modes

• Why Do You Take Notes?

• How to Pick a Note-taking App

• Automate Mindfully

• The Informed Life with Madonnalisa Chan

• Balancing Work and Meta-work

• Re-evaluating the Move to Jekyll

• Two Ways of Organizing Notes

• The Most Logical Date Format for Notes

• Automating File/Folder Structures

• Never Forget a Good Idea Again

• Work and Meta-work

• My Videoconferencing Setup, October 2021

• Sketches as an Extension of Your Mind

• How to Use Transclusion in Obsidian

• Book Notes: “Mindset”

• Managing Tags When Integrating Obsidian and DEVONthink

• How to Find Older Files in Figma (and Other SaaS Apps)

• Two Things to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Note-taking Apps

• How New Note-taking Apps Give You Information Management Superpowers

• Book Notes: “The Inner Game of Tennis”

• Working on the iPad

• Saying No

• Deciding Between Cloud-based & Local Apps

• How I Take Notes

• Book Notes: “How to Read a Book”

• The Informed Life with Matt LeMay

• How I Manage 'Thinking' Time

• My Personal Information Ecosystem

• A Year of This

• The Informed Life with Kourosh Dini

• My Favorite Reads of 2020

• Book Notes: “Mastery”

• The Informed Life With Rob Haisfield

• Re-thinking Digital Note-taking

• Starting The Big Picture

• TAOI: Better Search and Context in Figma

• The Informed Life With Abby Covert

• Worth Your Attention

• A New Normal

• Reevaluating How We Use Social Networks

• Honing Our Remote Collaboration Abilities

• The Dynamics of Remote All-hands Meetings

• Worth Your Attention

• What Did I Learn?

• The Informed Life With Ariel Waldman

• Mind Your Baobabs

• Getting Rid of Ghosting in Notebook Scans

• TAOI: OmniFocus Tags

• “Build More Roads” is Often the Wrong Answer

• The Informed Life With Jessica Ivins

• Desert Island Apps

• Work Anywhere

• My Digital Memory

• Marc Andreessen’s Guide to Personal Productivity

• The Informed Life With Kevin M. Hoffman

• A Space for Collaboration

• Buffers: A Key to Working at Your Most Effective

• Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Information Ecosystem

• The iPad As a Travel Computer

• Getting More Done With Information

• The Informed Life With Fabricio Teixeira

• The Informed Life With Gretchen Anderson

• Getting Unstuck By Switching Environments

• Discovering the Shortest Route

• Five Practices for Using Information More Mindfully

• Goldilocks Workshop Spaces

• Book Notes: “Rapid Problem Solving With Post-it® Notes”

• Tackling New Challenges

• Intentional Computing

• Folder-centric to App-centric Workflows

• Making Changes at the End of the Year?

• Tracking Commitments

• Start With a Structure

• Managing Screen Time

• So Many Books

• Project Focus Mode

• A Strong Body for Strong Workshops

• The Allure of Novelty

• Mobile Computing at a Different Level

• Shared Docs as Places for Collaboration

• Coming Up to Speed

• In Praise of Email, Which I Want Less Of

• Think Better, Fast

• OneNote

• The War Room

• Tag Your Stuff

• Maintaining Focus

• Working Towards Focus

• Book Notes: "Seeing What Others Don't"

• Your Personal Information Ecosystem

• Book Notes: “The Organized Mind”

• Book Notes: “Factfulness”

• Ad Hoc

• Changing Your Personal Information Environment

• A Personal Information Architecture

• Bringing Others Into the New

• Exploring the Possible

• Designers and Makers

• How to Clear a Logjam

• Measuring Progress From the Trenches

• Know Your Materials

• The Right Time for Feedback

• Taking Notes

• The Dream of a Single Inbox

• Reestablishing Routines After a Break

• Internet Sabbatical 2017 Edition

• Re-connecting With the Big Idea

• Making Time for Noodling

• Mind the Knees

• The Instrument

• A New Notebook

• Drawing to Think

• Why Workshops Don't Work (and What You Can Do About It)

• My Favorite Reads of 2013

• Being Selective

• The Post-Summit Blues, or IA Dissociative Identity Disorder