Author: Curtis McHale

  • GTD in Your PKM – Track Everything

    GTD in Your PKM – Track Everything

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    I recently got asked how I use Obsidian alongside all the project management and task tools I must have. In any given week I have things to do coming in via Trello, Github Issues, email and Things 3. Many of these items may also have a related Slack conversation, or notes I have taken in

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  • PKM Weekly August 7 2022 – Issue 030

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    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could

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  • Worthwhile Reading from 2022

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    This week I look back at a few of the books that have been worth reading in 2022. To get these posts become a member. Members get my courses included..

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  • Taking Notes on Building a Second Brain

    Taking Notes on Building a Second Brain

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    Today you can watch me process Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte. I’ll take some notes and talk about my thoughts on the book as it relates to my thinking on taking notes. Links Building a Second Brain Bamboo Reading Rest Getting Things Done The Bullet Journal Method How to Read a Book Scott

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  • PKM Weekly July 31 2022 – Issue 029

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    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could

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  • Building a Second Brain Gives You Permission to Fall Into Collector’s Fallacy

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    This is usually a member’s only post. Become a member to get research notes and courses. When I started writing this I had not finished Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte. I was originally optimistic that he’d deal with the items I thought were missing, but that didn’t happen. Unfortunately, this book follows the

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  • My 5 Favourite Kanban Tools

    My 5 Favourite Kanban Tools

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    Kanban is one of my favourite task management systems. It does an excellent job at visualizing what is outstanding in a project and seeing all of the tasks that are assigned to you. If you’re interesting in learning more about Kanban I suggest the Personal Kanban book. Today we’ll look at my 5 favourite kanban

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  • Unread Updates for Stage Manager

    Unread Updates for Stage Manager

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    No this isn’t a big update for Unread, but it’s a fast responsive update. Just a week ago I reported that the default keyboard command to toggle the read status of an article conflicted with the iPadOS 16 Stage Manager controls. Well July 22 2022 Unread released 3.0.2 and changed the keyboard commands around. I

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  • The Gray Man

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    This was a fun action flick and man does Chris Evans play an excellent villain. I hope we see another instalment. You can find it on Netflix in Canada, and since it’s a Netflix property you can probably find it there in other places as well.

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  • PKM Weekly July 24 2022 – Issue 028

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    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could

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