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• Second Draft = Second Wind

• How to Take More Effective Notes

• The Informed Life with Alice Albrecht

• Use Taxonomies to Organize Your Stuff

• How to Use Tags to Manage Your 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

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

• Three Types of Notes

• How to Swallow a Frog

• Book Notes: “How to Take Smart Notes”

• Reclaiming Our Attention with Focus Modes

• Why Do You Take Notes?

• 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

• Work and Meta-work

• My Videoconferencing Setup, October 2021

• Working on the iPad

• How I Take Notes

• How I Manage 'Thinking' Time

• My Personal Information Ecosystem

• A Year of This

• Re-thinking Digital Note-taking

• A New Normal

• Reevaluating How We Use Social Networks

• Honing Our Remote Collaboration Abilities

• The Dynamics of Remote All-hands Meetings

• What Did I Learn?

• Mind Your Baobabs

• Getting Rid of Ghosting in Notebook Scans

• “Build More Roads” is Often the Wrong Answer

• Work Anywhere

• My Digital Memory

• Marc Andreessen’s Guide to Personal Productivity

• 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

• Getting Unstuck By Switching Environments

• Discovering the Shortest Route

• Tackling New Challenges

• Intentional Computing

• Folder-centric to App-centric Workflows

• 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

• Your Personal Information Ecosystem

• How to Clear a Logjam

• Measuring Progress From the Trenches

• Taking Notes

• The Dream of a Single Inbox

• Making Time for Noodling

• Mind the Knees

• Drawing to Think

• Being Selective