• Things 3 Scribble Support on iOS 14

    Things 3 Scribble Support on iOS 14

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    [Scribble](https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/ipad/ipad355ab2a7/ipados) is a new iOS 14 feature that brings the apple pencil new powers for these that love handwriting. Today I’ll only be looking at how [Things 3 supports Scribble](https://culturedcode.com/things/blog/). I don’t think that Scribble will greatly increase my Apple Pencil use, but it’s nice to have for any user that is using their Apple

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  • 3 Thoughts from Deep Work by Cal Newport

    3 Thoughts from Deep Work by Cal Newport

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    This is my third reading of Deep Work by Cal Newport. During my first reading of Deep Work I remember being excited because someone was finally saying all the things I’d been thinking and circling around in my productivity life for a few years. While I don’t get that same feeling when I read it

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  • Apple Doesn’t Want Me to Watch Content I’ve Purchased – Friday Notes 123

    Apple Doesn’t Want Me to Watch Content I’ve Purchased – Friday Notes 123

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    > If I’m your audience, and I’ve spent a thousand bocks on my movie library, I don’t want to have to throw away that investment. I want to be able to use one family of devices and one program to manage my movies. [^1] I stopped purchasing video content or music from Apple a few

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  • Last Gravel Ride on my MEC Cote

    Last Gravel Ride on my MEC Cote

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    Since I had a new Felt Broam coming, I decided to enjoy one last fall day on the older gravel bike. I may still ride it, but likely not on any bigger gravel rides. Enjoy the last day where I cheer on friends in a race, ride, then cheer another friend on in the same

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  • Strong Towns & Financially Insolvent American Cities

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    This upcoming series looks fascinating. My wife and I are in a battle over a second car, which would mosty be for my use transporting kids to things. I don’t want one, and she thinks we need one. I think we simply are trying to avoid a tiny amount of inconvienence.

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  • Ideal Day Overload

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    Love Peter’s distinction between an ideal day and a real day around the 8:00 mark. We usually try to have ideal days and then fault ourselves when they don’t happen. Try to plan for a real day instead.

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  • Automating My Content Calendar in Things 3

    Automating My Content Calendar in Things 3

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    As I’ve looked around at different task managers and settled on Things 3 as my first option to test out, I realized I was giving up my [TickTick Content Calendar](https://curtismchale.ca/2020/08/03/build-a-content-calendar-with-ticktick). That meant it was time to do some automation to use Drafts, Things 3 and Calendar to get a content calendar that is automated for

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  • The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang

    The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang

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    From the subtitle, Andrew Yang positions The War on Normal people as his answer to deal with the problems America is facing with disappearing jobs and thus income issues in their homes. ## What is the Problem? In Yang’s mind the issue is that we have a lack of financial mobility and stability. This insecurity

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  • The Internet Lets us Mimic Expertise – Friday Notes 122

    The Internet Lets us Mimic Expertise – Friday Notes 122

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    One idea I keep coming back to, in part because I catch myself falling into the trap, is that the internet allows us to mimic expertise with an inexhaustible list of facts[^See [The Death of Expertise](https://curtismchale.ca/2020/01/31/how-expertise-died) for more on this]. I caught myself doing it two weeks ago with friends. We were talking about my

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  • Magic + Button Things 3

    Magic + Button Things 3

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    One of the under praised features of Things 3 on iOS is the magic plus button you can use to add tasks to the application. For a long time I only used it by tapping it, but then I realized how much extra power this button has especially on iPad. Today I’ll show you how

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