• Batch Process Images With Shortcuts and Affinity Photo

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    Shortcuts, Affinity Photo and Bulk Processing I work with a bunch of screenshots and photos for my reviews because in addition to doing a video to go with an application or piece of hardware I write a blog post to go with it. Today I’m going to show you how I batch process images with…

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  • Fiery Feeds Review

    Fiery Feeds Review

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    The other RSS clients I’ve looked at so far have followed a standard function. Add your feed service to them and then read your feeds. Here Fiery feeds breaks that mold by not only showing the articles from the feeds you subscribe to, but also showing things that those feeds may be linking it. Let’s…

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  • Acknowledge Fault to Save Your Mistakes – Friday Notes 103

    Acknowledge Fault to Save Your Mistakes – Friday Notes 103

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    > Acknowledgement of fault is powerful. It shows empathy, a willingness to own the problem, and a desire to then fix it. Company of One Page 119 ([Independent Publisher](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781328972354?aff=curtismchale) | [Amazon](https://amzn.to/3cU6R8B)) If you’re going to run your own business, you’re going to make mistakes. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been running that business, you’re…

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  • Stay at Home Book Haul

    Stay at Home Book Haul

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    It’s been a while since I’ve done a book haul, mainly because my local used bookstore was closed for a bit and I’ve stopped buying much from Amazon. Well The Bookman reopened recently and they got to my list of books and had a bunch in stock. Today is that list. – Stargirl: [Independent Publisher](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780440416777?aff=curtismchale)…

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  • Trackpad or Mouse for Your iPad

    Trackpad or Mouse for Your iPad

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    With iPadOS 13.4 out for a while we’ve had enough experience using the newly enabled trackpad to have a preference between a mouse or a trackpad for iPadOS. Both devices will get the new magnetic cursor found in the operating system as long as the application you’re in supports it. If the application was built…

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  • DEVONthink as a Read It Later Service

    DEVONthink as a Read It Later Service

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    While there aren’t as many options as in a service to save full text for reading later as there are in RSS sync services, you’ve still got a few. For those of us on the Apple platform you can use their built in Read It Later system which syncs between your devices. For multi-platform/os options…

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  • What’s New in Obsidian 0.5.2

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    Quick tour of the new features in Obsidian 0.5.2

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  • Books I’m Not Finishing In 2020

    Books I’m Not Finishing In 2020

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    Yes I read a bunch, but I don’t finish every book I read. In fact this year I’ve decided to put down books faster instead of muscling through them because there will some grain in them that makes the whole endeavour worthwhile. Today I’m going to talk about the books I decided not to finish…

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  • Setting the Context for Productivity

    Setting the Context for Productivity

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    Like many people now, I work at home but unlike the vast amount of workers that made this change in the last few months I’ve been doing it for 10 years. As I’ve read many of the articles about tips for working from home they all seem idealized to the point of non-viability. Yes it’s…

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  • The Full-Stack Freelancer Can Deep Work

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    In Tiago Forte’s article, [The Rise of the Full-Stack Freelancer](https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-rise-of-the-full-stack-freelancer/), I think he makes an error when it comes to deep work. > It’s trendy now to proclaim the universal superiority of “deep work.” We’re advised to lock out all distractions and interruptions, fixate completely on one project at a time, and optimize for long,…

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