• A World Without Email by Cal Newport

    A World Without Email by Cal Newport

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    Cal Newport’s latest entry into the productivity genre takes on email as a main evil in holding back the productivity of knowledge workers today1. Newport calls how we currently deal with email _The Hyperactive Hive Mind_2, which is a workflow that’s more about dealing with all the communication that comes in instead of controlling your

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  • Summarize Your Main Areas of Focus

    Summarize Your Main Areas of Focus

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    If someone asked you to summarize the two or three areas that you’re most interested in, would you know what to say? Today I’ll talk about a recent idea I had to write down summaries of those important areas every quarter so that they incorporate your latest understanding.

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  • Books In/Out May 2021

    Books In/Out May 2021

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    Out Ready Player Two The War on Normal People: See the review High School I’ll be Seeing You: See the review The Space Trilogy Normal Sucks: See the review Guests of the Nation Fearvana Tribe of Mentors The Pragmatic Programmer Diefenbaker Memoirs In Leonardo Da Vinci Brilliant Blunders His Needs Her Needs The Comeback Quotient

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  • Matt – iPad Parallelism?

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    From Matt Birchler iOS 9 gave us multitasking on the iPad, and I really hope iPadOS 15 makes parallelism more powerful. At the very lest, I’d love it if I could simply start a video export in LumaFusion on my iPad Pro, throw the app in the background, and do other things while it works

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  • The iPad babysitter – Jeff Perry

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    From Jeff Perry If I upload something on my iPad it has to be open and turned on the entire time. If the screen falls asleep or I switch apps on the iPad I get to reupload that file all over again. Essentially, I feel like a babysitter for my computer at times, which isn’t

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  • Unlinked Mentions in Obsidian

    Unlinked Mentions in Obsidian

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    One of the big selling points for research tools like Obsidian and Roam Research is the idea of unlinked mentions. Today we’ll look at what unlinked mentions are, and how you could use them in Obsidian. Then I’ll talk about why I don’t care so much about them as a feature in Craft.

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  • macOS Fully Baked vs iPadOS Half Baked

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    From The Dent: Every time a new iPad comes out the first thing everyone says about it is ‘Just wait for the next OS update, the software will catch up with the hardware’. This year is no exception. It’s basically been said in every review or video I’ve seen of the product. The MacBook Air

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  • Bloated iPad Pro Cost

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    From Jeff Perry When I was comparing the pricing on a new M1 Macbook Air with a 12.9″ iPad Pro and the Magic Keyboard I would need to make it work for me it was clear just how bloated the cost of an iPad Pro is compared to the MacBook line. I entirely agree. I

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  • I’ll Be Seeing You by Elizabeth Berg

    I’ll Be Seeing You by Elizabeth Berg

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    Today we’re going to talk about I’ll Be Seeing You by Elizabeth Berg. This is a memoir by an adult as they deal with the aging of their parents. My biggest takeaway is that I need to have long talks about my aging process with my kids to relieve them from as much guilt as

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  • Move Craft Note to Another Space

    Move Craft Note to Another Space

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    Today we’ll talk about a newer feature that’s come to Craft, the ability to move notes between workspaces.

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