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…
Low Visibility Archibald and West Cheam Ridge
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Sept 18 my wonderful mother-in-law agreed to watch the kids so that Cynthia and I could have a date night. While some couples grab a coffee and take a walk, we decided to head up Mt Archibald and connect it into the summit of Mt Cheam via the west ridge trail. While this trail has…
Rethinking iOS 14 Widget Home Screen – A Better Computer
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Widgets do bring the first real change in what you can do with iOS. Here is what Matt is doing.
The Social Dilemma – Netflix Documentary
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This is an excellent documentary on Netflix that questions the power we give social networks, specifically the power that AI that recommends things to us has. A few interesting points. Forget AI overwhelming human strengths like Terminator, long before that it will overwhelm our weaknesses and lead us to polarization and confirmation bias in a…
The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
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Did you love going to school? I know I didn’t. My biggest problem was that I couldn’t see the point of most of the work I did and thus didn’t feel like wasting my effort on it. I easily grasped math that I could turn around and use in my construction job, but then struggled…
Time Block Leisure? – Friday Notes 116
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> Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one’s work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to…
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