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Ben Vallack – Ortholinear vs Staggered Keyboards
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If you’ve ever wondered about staggered vs ortholinear keyboards, this is a good video. The Moonlander I want is not staggered and I’m even more eager to try it now.
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Chris Lawley’s Tips for Using Drafts
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Chris Lawley has a good short walkthrough to show you some of the power that Drafts has. I took some of his suggestions and an [action to help change workspaces faster](https://actions.getdrafts.com/g/1HZ) and I’ll be using Drafts for the next number of weeks to see if it’s better than iA Writer. I already have to drop
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Exporting vCards from your iPad
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While iOS makes it easy to share your contact information with other iOS users, it doesn’t make it easy to export a universal format that you can send to anyone regardless of the device they’ll receive your contact information on. Today we’ll look at a way to export a vCard from your iOS device without
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I think this is my next keyboard – Moonlander
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It’s expensive, but I’ve always loved ergonomic keyboards and this one looks excellent.
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Part 3 of Chris Lawley’s iPad Workflow
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Every time I see Chris talk about Drafts I think I shoud use it, but then I use it and it feels like too much friction. Specifically the “folders” as workspaces pradigm doesn’t fit with my mindset on storing documents. Maybe I just need to commit to Drafts and dig in deep to grok it.
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The Focus of Famous People is Merely Aspirational
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[Cal Newport](https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/09/11/michael-connelly-starts-writing-before-the-sun-comes-up/) on Michael Connelly’s writing practice: > For the rest of us, drowning in our inboxes and Zoom invites, this should be more than a source of aspirational escape. It represents a reminder that getting the most out of the messy jumble of neurons known as the human brain requires sacrifices. To instead orient
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Clickup Quick Look and First Impressions
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In my video on my ideal timeblocking project management system a bunch of people recommended ClickUp. Today I’m going to take a look at the application for the first time. All I’ve done is create my account and watched some videos on what others are doing with ClickUp. [Try ClickUp](https://curtismchale.ca/clickup)
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How Cool Changes – Friday Notes 115
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On the first day of school, my oldest child had a book report ready to go for her teacher. She used her iPad and typed it up. It has a cover page with a rating and it’s in a nice folder she spent her own money on. My first thought when she was showing it
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Writer’s Writing App Round Up
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Very much been enjoying William’s YouTube channel. This video highlighted TextSoap and while I write mainly on iPadOS, I could see using this for some of my content.
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Jeff Perry going Analogue with Bullet Journal
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[From Jeff](https://jeffperry.blog/2020/09/08/going-offline-has.html): > After starting out using this notebook I noticed the “intentional friction” with this system and it was something I hadn’t had in my other task managers. I would have hundreds of tasks in my digital task managers over time, clogging up the system and making it nearly impossible to decide what is
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