Month: September 2020
Carl Pullein on Drafts
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I’ve been back on a Drafts kick lately. I’ll get to a video talking about what has changed that make Drafts “work” for me, but today is not that day. I started looking at Carl’s Drafts stuff today. You can get the whole series [here](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCMUCE_lTvaMHuco_Oh3-69LkCA&feature=share&playnext=1). I don’t use Drafts as capture tool for everything like…
The Task Managers I Recommend
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While I’ve centralized my work on a single task manager, that doesn’t mean that I recommend my choice for everyone. In fact, I tell my wife **not** to use the task manager I use daily. It’s simply too much for her to manage. Let’s take a look at the task systems I recommend and dive…
The Inferior Good of Entertainment – Friday Notes 117
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In The War on Normal People I came across an interesting idea called inferior good. Evidently it’s an economic term for “good” things where demand decreases as you earn more. So the less you earn the more you invest in terms of time/money in this thing. This is often video games, TV watching, YouTube…People with…
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan
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After reading The Case Against Education I saw another intriguing title from Bryan Caplan about having more kids for selfish reasons. Today we’ll look at that book, called Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. The purpose is directly in the title for the curious. Caplan is going to argue that if you wanted no kids,…
Chris Lawley on the 8th Gen iPad
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All the devices my kids use are iPad Mini 3’s which are showing their age. This is yet another vote towards getting at least one iPad 8th Gen that my oldest can use for school work. That would at least split out the purchase of other devices for a while instead of everything being broke…
How I Take Notes in Kindle Books
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Today we’re going to look at how I mark up Kindle books so that I can transfer their contents into Obsidian. While I most often read physical books, sometimes it’s much easier to grab my Kindle. Take my recent vacation. I did bring 2 books with me, but it was far easier to lay on…
10 More iOS 14 widgets – A Better Computer
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10 more widgets that may interest you from A Better Computer. If you’re interested in widgets, also check out my [task manager widget home screens](https://curtismchale.ca/2020/09/22/task-manager-ios-14-widget-home-screen). Todoist looks like the most interesting widget to me on this list of 10.
Task Manager iOS 14 Widget Home Screen
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iOS 14 has every nerd rethinking their Home Screen. Even my father-in-law saw my photo widget and asked me to add one to his Home Screen a few days ago. Every day I’ve got a message with a photo that he loved and wouldn’t have seen without the Photos widget. Today we’re going to take…
Apps That are Better on iPad
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I regularly get asked why I reach for my iPad as much as I do. What apps and tasks are “better” or “easier” on iPadOS? Today I’m going to walk you through the apps that make me long for my iPad when I’m on macOS. If I’m trying to do any of the tasks that…
iPadOS 14 Walkthrough from Christopher Lawley
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As usual, Christopher has a great walkthrough of iPadOS 14. If you’ve wanted to learn what’s new, this is the video you want. My biggest gripe with iPadOS 14 is the lack of widgets in the rest of your screen like iOS. The more I put widgets on my iPhone, the more the lack of…
