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What’s New in Things 3.11 for iPadOS and iOS
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One of my favourite features in Things 3 is the Quick Find box that’s available by typing literally anywhere in the app. I use it almost every time I’m in Things to find the tasks or projects I’m looking for. Well Cultured Code has updated the Quick Find box with some more power features. Watch
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Budget Noise-Cancelling Wireless Headphones: Plantronics Backbeat Pro
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Noise cancelling headphones are a thing, a great thing. While there are many expensive options, I don’t have that kind of money to get headphones right now so I had to look at less expensive options. Enter the Plantronics Backbeats Pro, which I got at my local Best Buy one evening about 6 months ago.
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Airtable and Shortcuts with Chris
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Started working with Airtable this morning to build a chore tracking sheet for kids. Of course Chris Lawley has a good video for an introduction to Shortcuts and Airtable.
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Friday Notes 083 – December 13 2019
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This week was full of Christmas stuff, including a 1am wake up to rescue a fallen tree and the ornaments that took a plunge. Surprisingly, only three were broken and they’re all fixable. Also, my 5-year-old decided to get up 6 times between 1-5 when I got out of bed. Yes the next day was
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The Messy Desk Busyness Number
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My desk and workbench also show how busy I am. What I noticed about my desk, was that it was like the overcast clouds that had rolled in: much of it seemed to be covered, and in disarray. I tend to turn to the desk to my left to write things down, open books, read
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Daydream What You Want for Christmas
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Daydream with Jamie Todd Rubin: With Christmas just a few weeks away, I’ve been daydreaming. When I daydream–something that occurs with increasing frequency these days–I often find myself having imaginary conversations with people. Sometimes these are people I know, and other times they are constructs, like characters in a story, that allow the conversation to
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Fixing My Wifi With Eero
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With my family complaining about the Wifi performance in parts of the house I was watching Black Friday deals. Well, there is now an Eero system in the house and you can watch me muddle through setting it up. ## Links – [Purchase Eero on Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WMLPSRL/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) ## My Gear – My gear: https://curtismchale.ca/my-gear – Patreon:
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The Favourite Apps of an iPad Based Web Developer
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Today is a look at all the apps that I love on my iPad. In most cases, I feel handicapped by not having them when I have to use macOS. The first app, which gets a category of it’s own is [Shortcuts](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id915249334?mt=8). I’m not crazy having hundreds of shortcuts like some people, but this is
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Publishers Restricting Library Access to Ebooks
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[So the big publishers are restricting access to Libraries when it comes to purchasing ebooks in the first 8 weeks of publishing](https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775150979/you-may-have-to-wait-to-borrow-a-new-e-book-from-the-library). While I can see that it’s *possible* that Library lending cuts into initial purchases of ebooks, I’m not sure it’s as big an impact as the publishers think. Heck they even say that
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Every Winner Begins as a Loser
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[So you do have to fail first to be successful](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/failure-found-to-be-an-essential-prerequisite-for-success/) > The takeaway? “Every winner begins as a loser,” says Wang, associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, who conceived and led the study. Now it’s not persistence, repeated failure, that marks people that succeed eventually. It’s taking the time
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