With Mailbox opening up to everyone, and thus devouring the media attention for email clients, I thought this might bear mentioning. Triage is a simple email client designed to very quickly work through only the new mail in your inbox. With a flick you decide to archive or keep a message. If you keep it, …
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Weekly link dump
How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify There are a lot of posts these days about folks who learned coding driven by a personal project they wanted to complete. This is one of my favourites. Toggl I’ve had nothing but problems from the all-in-one time tracking, project management, and …
Lenten web fast
Last year I observed a web fast during Lent. It was really successful, so I’m doing it again this year. I want to share a bit about my thinking. Most people are familiar with the Lenten practice of forgoing luxuries or fasting. The purpose of this practice is penitence, and to prepare the mind for …
GTD Incompletion Trigger List in OPML
Update: the link to the Organise IT trigger list seems to be pretty popular. Unfortunately it’s gone from their site. You can see an archived version of the list on the Wayback Machine. As part of my 2013 planning, I’m doing what David Allen’s book Getting Things Done calls a “mind sweep”. It’s a process …
Weekly link dump
SocialCount Despite pointing out that “Share this” buttons on most sites live between 0-24 shares, I still get plenty of requests for them. Next time I think I’ll forgo AddThis for SocialCount. It’s very lightweight (provided you’re already including JQuery), customizable, and loads in such a way that it won’t block the display of your …