Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week, I did a quarterly review & planning session. To be able to focus on my review, I rented a room at a local desert resort and planned to spend two days working on only my review. I find it helpful to leave my normal surroundings to be able to give total focus to …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about Finding Balance in Life. In this post, I stated my belief that life balance did not mean giving equal time to all of the aspects or roles in my life. Rather, I said, “My definition of life balance is to give appropriate attention and …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Growing Popularity of Building a Second Brain “Building a Second Brain,” (BASB) is a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system developed by Tiago Forte. Recently it’s been receiving lots of attention in the productivity and business world. Forte recently published a book by that title and has appeared on numerous tech and business podcasts to …
Reading Time: 6 minutesJoe Moyer recently wrote a post in his excellent blog, 24 Letters, about how he writes using Ulysses. His post describes how he organizes and uses Ulysses to take his writing from ideas through completed posts. I also use Ulysses for almost all of my blog posts. I have some similar uses of Ulysses to …
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen The Always-On Display Was Announced, I Didn’t Think I’d Use It. iOS 16 and the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max have a new feature this year, an always-on display. Although dimmed, the phone displays the information on the lock screen such as date, time, screen widgets, and a background photo if being used. …
Reading Time: 4 minutesAlmost every year before the new iPhones are announced, I decide I’m not going to buy a new one this year because my present iPhone is perfectly adequate. And then every year, after the iPhone event describes the improvements to the new iPhone, I buy another iPhone. The determining factor for me is almost always …
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently, David Sparks (Aka MacSparky) published a blog post and video describing his morning routine journal template. In it, he lists the questions he uses to prompt his journaling every morning. I’d seen the question, “How will my actions today show my character?” before in some of his materials. At that time I’d chosen not …
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently I began using the Daily Note feature in Craft as my journaling app instead of Day One, which I’d been using for several years. Craft had all the features that I was using in Day One, and had some additional benefits that made it worthwhile for me to switch apps. Benefits to Journaling in …
Reading Time: 6 minutesAt the Far Out Apple Event last week, Apple announced a new feature for the iPhone 14: Emergency SOS via satellite. Using the GlobalStar satellite system, it allows users to contact emergency services when out of cell coverage. The service is free to users for the first two years, starting in November. I enjoy doing …
Reading Time: 5 minutesSaved by the Sensor Alarm One night recently, my wife and I were sitting in the living room watching the first episode of the Rings of Power series on Amazon. We were startled when a loud alarm sound went off, coming from a camera/hub sitting on a bookcase. At first, we looked at each other, …