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The Friday Five for May 30, 2025: Field Notes for This Week Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts Mozilla Pocket Alternatives YouTube Adds Top Podcasts Chart How to Avoid Using Elderspeak   Field Notes: “AHIP Medicare + Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Online Course.” Ahipmedicaretraining.Com, AHIP, www.ahipmedicaretraining.com/page/login. Accessed 28 May 2025. “NABIP Medicare Advantage Certification.” NABIP.Org, NABIP, www.nabiptraining.org/nabip/medicare. Accessed 28 May 2025. Register for Ritter Insurance Marketing Summits: https://summits.ritterim.com/   Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts: Wawro, Alex. “9 MacBook Keyboard Shortcuts You Need to Know First.” Tomsguide.Com, Tom's Guide, 20 Apr. 2025, www.tomsguide.com/computing/macos/9-macbook-keyboard-shortcuts-you-need-to-know-first. Kasiya, Chifundo. “12 Windows Key Shortcuts I Use Every Day.” Howtogeek.Com, How-To Geek, 23 Feb. 2025, www.howtogeek.com/windows-key-shortcuts-i-use-every-day/. Brookes, Tim. “13 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts I Couldn't Live Without.” Howtogeek.Com, How-To Geek, 10 Apr. 2025, www.howtogeek.com/mac-keyboard-shortcuts-i-couldnt-live-without/. “Mac Split Screen: How to Chop Your Screen in Half for Multitasking.” Cnet.Com, CNET, 3 Feb. 2025, www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mac-split-screen-how-to-chop-your-screen-in-half-for-multitasking/. Aamoth, Doug. “These 10 Windows 11 Keyboard Shortcuts Will Boost Your Productivity.” Fastcompany.Com, Fast Company, 27 May 2025, www.fastcompany.com/91337250/best-windows-11-keyboard-shortcuts. Fisher, Tim. “Windows Keyboard Shortcuts to Know in 2025.” Lifewire.Com, Lifewire, 14 Jan. 2025, www.lifewire.com/best-windows-keyboard-shortcuts-6503973.   Mozilla Pocket Alternatives: Reddy, Ramesh. “6 Best Pocket Alternatives to Save and Read Articles Later [2025].” Techpp.Com, TechPP, 24 May 2025, techpp.com/2025/05/24/best-pocket-alternatives/. Manuel, Beatrice. “Best Read-It-Later Apps in 2025: Top Ways to Save Web Pages & Content.” Edited by Samuel Chapman and Eugenie Tiu, Cloudwards.Net, Cloudwards, 16 May 2025, www.cloudwards.net/best-read-it-later-apps/. Instapaper: https://instapaper.com/ Matter: https://hq.getmatter.com/ Blake, Alex. “Mozilla Is Shutting down Pocket – Here Are the 3 Best Bookmarking Alternatives.” TechRadar, techradar.com, 23 May 2025, www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/mozilla-is-shutting-down-pocket-here-are-the-3-best-bookmarking-alternatives. Delima, David. “Mozilla's Pocket Shuts down in July: Try These Four Pocket Alternatives.” Gadgets360.Com, Gadgets 360, 24 May 2025, www.gadgets360.com/apps/features/mozilla-pocket-shutdown-alternatives-bookmarks-app-8497286. Krasnoff, Barbara. “Pocket Alternatives for Bookmarking Your Content.” Theverge.Com, The Verge, 23 May 2025, www.theverge.com/22927750/bookmarks-pocket-firefox-instapaper-raindrop. Raindrop.io: https://raindrop.io/ Mehta, Ivan, and Sarah Perez. “Read-It-Later App Pocket Is Shutting down - Here Are the Best Alternatives.” Techcrunch.Com, TechCrunch, 27 May 2025, techcrunch.com/2025/05/27/read-it-later-app-pocket-is-shutting-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives/. Peckham, James. “Read-It-Later Pocket App Will Shut down on July 8.” Pcmag.Com, PCMAG, 23 May 2025, www.pcmag.com/news/pocket-shut-down-the-read-it-later-app-will-close-on-july-8. Pot, Justin. “The 4 Best Read It Later Apps.” Zapier.Com, Zapier, 15 Aug. 2024, zapier.com/blog/best-bookmaking-read-it-later-app/.   YouTube Adds Top Podcasts Chart: “Apple Podcast Charts.” Podcasts.Apple.Com, Apple, podcasts.apple.com/us/charts. Accessed 28 May 2025. “Spotify Podcast Charts.” Podcastcharts.Byspotify.Com, Spotify, podcastcharts.byspotify.com/. Accessed 28 May 2025. “YouTube Podcast Charts.” Charts.Youtube.Com, YouTube, charts.youtube.com/podcasts. Accessed 28 May 2025.   How to Avoid Using Elderspeak: Senior Speak: Talking to Medicare Clients Age 65 & Older: https://ritterim.com/blog/senior-speak-talking-to-medicare-clients-age-65-and-older/ Shaw, Clarissa A., et al. “The Iowa Coding Scheme for Elderspeak: Development and Validation.” Academic.Oup.Com, Oxford Academic, 4 Mar. 2025, academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/65/6/gnaf093/8051882. Span, Paula. “Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak.” Nytimes.Com, The New York Times, 3 May 2025, www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/health/elderly-treatment-aides.html.   Rueppel Recommends: Ridgely, Charlie. “Everything Coming to Netflix, Disney+, Max & Other Streaming Services in June 2025.” ComicBook.Com, Comic Book, 26 May 2025, comicbook.com/movies/news/new-streaming-movies-tv-june-2025-netflix-disney-hbo-services/.   Resources: 4 Ancillary Cross-Sales to Show Clients You Care: https://lnk.to/asg670 Apps for Comparing Healthcare & Prescriptions: https://lnk.to/ASGA85 Community Engagement & ACA Marketing Suggestions for Agents: https://lnk.to/ASG665 Reassuring Your Clients During Difficult Times: https://lnk.to/asg671 Takeaways on Social Media Marketing in 2025: https://lnk.to/asgf20250523   Follow Us on Social! 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**One of the best ways to ignite your own cozy FIRE is to live life as a lazy digital nomad. And all you need to do is browse the Internet and type things on your keyboard. We're lighting a FIRE the easy way on the ProcrastiN8r Podcast 2 weeks ago (lvl 11. I said 10 but it's 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record the whole thing) we talked about how to FIND your niche. Today we're looking at.... Top 10 Ways on  how to WRITE CONTENT for your niche...with as little effort as possible Without further ado, let's BURN...right into it You can't just blog to everybody! Blogging to everybody is blogging to nobody. Find. Your. Niche. NEWSJACKING (or as I call it “Procrasi-logging) involves finding a relevant trending topic and repurposing it for your own blog 10. Look at Your Competition AppSumo Look up a topic, then see the top articles related to that keyword View social media share stats for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit as well as Total Engagement. Evergreen score (how long after it's published is it still being shared?) Take a look at magazine websites (headlines, images, language/slang used) Subscribe to top content creators in your niche. To find blogs, get an RSS Reader like Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, or Flipboard Listen to podcasts. Watch YouTube and Twitch. 9. Read the News Search Google News for a topic related to your niche and look at the top articles. Go to a site like AllTop or Reddit to find topic specific news (niche specific) Look at an article, video, or podcasts as if you're in the room talking to them in a conversation. What can you add to the conversation? What insight is missing? Can you add a joke or something funny? 8.See What People Are Talking About and How They Are Engaging RedditList Type keyword related to niche, find relevant subreddits You could look at the official Reddit as well to find But Redditlist includes Subscriber rank (compared to other subreddits) and subscriber growth. Reddit list does NOT include all subreddits. Search relevant hashtags on Twitter, groups or Pages on Facebook, Pins on Pinterest, stories and posts on Instagram. See which posts are getting the most engagement and what type of emotional reaction the commenters are having. Write content that purposely sparks that emotion in your language (anger, sadness, joy, laughter, fear, etc.) Look at the comments of what people are saying on reddit, blog posts, and news sites. Pay attention to what's happening in the conversation. Are there points you agree with and could build upon with your own spin or maybe something you disagree with. 7. Find Out What People Are ASKING About What do people in your niche want to know? What are some common problems or concerns? Attend Livestreams and Webinars. Take notes not only on the content itself but What are people asking? What kind of comments are they saying? Look at FAQs of sites within your niche  and build content answering them in your own words. (eg. There might be “How do I get rid of background noise like fans in my audio?” on a software like Audacity or Adobe Audition or “How do I promote my brand on Facebook” on a site related to online marketing or “How do I receive dividends?” on a stock exchange site/app) 6. Always C&P Participate in forums and Reddit discussions yourself. Comment on FB posts, YouTube videos, Instagram photos. Answer questions on Quora, ehow, or Yahoo Answers. Amazon and other shopping sites are great if your niche is more product focused; you can look at the reviews and asked questions. Copy and Paste your own comments into a note taking app like Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Dropbox Paper,  or Google Keep. Tag it with relevant tags and give it a title so you'll remember the gist of what you're saying at a glance. Include a link to the comments. Color code it to make it easy to find in the future Remember: it's important to ALWAYS copy & paste your comment BEFORE you even post it, maybe even create a note first and copy it from there. Because if someone deletes your comment or their post  or changes the privacy settings or blocks you (or shuts down the website altogether if it's a forum/blog), it's gone FOREVER. You can't necessarily rely on the Web Archive.org. Keep your own records of the thing you say online related to your niche. You'll thank me later. 5. Save It For Later Take advantage of Pinterest's “secret boards” to collect ideas for blogs or craft projects in the future Similarly, you can save links, images, and videos on FB's Save for Later feature. You can change your privacy settings for a specific post you create so “Only You” can see it then just save it for later. You can Save Reddit posts and comments. Save articles you find on the web & you plan to re-write or read/comment on with the click of a button  using a bookmarking app like Evernote Webclipper, Pocket, Pinboard, or Instapaper. You can also just use the built-in bookmarking feature in your browser, since nowadays you can signin to Chrome or FireFox or Edge or whatever and sync your bookmarks and history across multiple devices. 4. Chat it up! In your daily life, you talk to your friends and family about the things you like. Take note of the points made in the conversation or use the recording app on your phone. The note apps (google Keep, etc) also allows to save voice notes. Or heck, record the conversation (with permission, don't be a creep) on your phone. Start a forum topic and see where the discussion leads. Repurpose it for a blog post. When you reach enough notoriety and level of trust and authority, people will come to you with questions on social media. Actually reach out and talk to people. Hit them up in their DMs. Note the type of questions they're asking you. And if you're not established as a source of authority in your niche yet: Find people that are. Interview guests. Record it then transcribe it, using the autotranscibe tool Scribie. All you do is ask questions and they give answers. You don't even have to know anything. 3. Share It Write a quick blurb about a video or photo or infographic and share it as a post You can even re-word top rated comments already said on other sites. This is one of the laziest ways to create content. Find something already being liked and shared then make a comment similar to one that's also being liked/upvoted/gilded in your blog post. 2. Rinse & Repeat it Find a way to recycle old content, dig it back up and make it look a bit different by re-wording it. This works well if your in a niche that requires advice. You'll find yourself repeating the same advice over and over again. But that's okay, our brains learn from repeated information and stimuli. Use an online thesaurus to get suggestions for alternative words to use in your writing. You can also take a specific quote from an interview and do a deep dive/analysis of it. All that is is rewording what the person said in several different ways. The only thing you are doing is taking previously written or spoken words and rearranging them or replacing them with similar words. You simply express the content using different vocabulary. See what I did there? 1. Go Behind the Scenes Show pictures of your office, recording setup, gear, etc. Show things from your personally life (the game you're playing, the movie you're watching, the pizza you're eating, etc.) You should only do this on occasion. The site is about your niche and not your personal diary. 0. Talk about what you already talked about but do it a bit different Self explanatory. You get the point now. What to Avoid Writing: Verbatim (word for word) Fake News (unless that's your niche) Sounding boring How to Find Your Niche the Easy Way I said this episode was Lvl 10, but it's actually Lvl 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record and fix it. Meh whatever. You'll figure it out. Get Free Images for Your Blog: FreePik NeedPix**

This week's question is all about how I use the technology I have to be more productive and better manage my time.  You can subscribe to this podcast on: Podbean | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | TUNEIN Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin The Working With… Weekly Newsletter The FREE Beginners Guide To Building Your Own COD System Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script | 315 Hello, and welcome to episode 315 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show. There's a lot of technology today that helps us be more productive. Our computers make producing work easy compared to twenty-five years ago. It's also made producing some kinds of work a lot cheaper. Imagine the cost of studio time if you wanted to record an album in 1999. Today, all you need is a laptop and a microphone, and you are good to go.  However, with all that wonderful technology, it's likely we have a lot of devices lying around gathering dust. I have a camera with four or five lenses sitting in a gorgeous canvas camera bag I haven't used in over five years. Now, all I take with me when we go on a trip is my phone. I'm not a professional photographer; I don't need all that equipment.  And don't get me started on all the apps I find I need to purge every once in a while because I don't use them anymore. Then, there are all the subscriptions you may be paying for that you are not using.  As an example, I recently discovered I had a Fantastical subscription. I used to use Fantastical. It was a cool calendar app that allowed me to have all my Todoist tasks and events in one place. Shortly after seeing what that did to my calendar, I stopped that integration (it was horrible. It made it look like I had no time at all for anything but work and meetings). Why was I paying for a service I was not using? I don't know, but it did cause me to go through all my app subscriptions to see if there were any more. (I found four more services I was paying for I was no longer using). This week's question addresses the heart of this technology overwhelm, so let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice. This week's question comes from Mark. Mark asks, hi Carl, I was wondering what digital tools you use to get your work done. You seem to be using a lot of tools, and I thought it must be very confusing to decide what to use.  Hi Mark, thank you for your question. I remember hearing an interview with Craig Federighi in which he explained Apple's thinking on its products. He talked about how sometimes you work on your laptop, and other times, you may find the environment more suitable for an iPad. A good example of this would be when working at your desk, you may prefer the laptop, and if you attended a meeting, the form factor and mobility of an iPad might work better. It certainly did for me when I was teaching. I would create all my teaching materials from my computer, but when I went to the classroom I took only my iPad. That was all I needed to teach with.  Today, I no longer teach in classrooms; I work from home. However, I do like to step away from my desk and work somewhere else occasionally, and when I do that, I will only take my iPad with me. It's great for writing and fits nicely into a small shoulder bag I carry when I go out.  But let's look at how I use each individual device, and I will explain why. My phone is always with me, which means it's the perfect UCT (Universal Collection Tool). I have my phone set up so I can quickly collect tasks, ideas and articles I would like to read later.  I use Drafts, an amazing little app that connects with Todoist and Evernote. With Evernote, I have it set up so that if I have a blog post or YouTube video idea, I can send it directly to my content ideas note without having to open Evernote. Drafts also allow me to dictate my ideas, which is essential as I have most of my ideas when I am walking my dog, Louis. I can then collect my ideas and keep an eye on Louis at the same time.  When I am out and about, I process emails from my phone, but I rarely respond from there. There are better tools for responding to actionable emails. I have a process for email management which involves clearing my inbox between sessions of work and then setting aside an hour later in the day for responding. I will respond usually from my computer, but if I am away from my office, I will use my iPad.  And, of course, I use my phone for instant messages and occasionally scrolling social media when waiting for my wife (A daily activity haha). I also have an old iPad Mini. I love that iPad. It's my content consumption device, and on there, I will read blogs and articles I have collected through Readwise (an app for collecting articles you want to read later) and books through the Kindle app.  This iPad mini is not connected to any messaging service (Except Apple Messages) or email. It's purely for consumption.  I should say I am not into gaming—never have been, so I have no gaming devices or apps. My guilty pleasure is reading and watching historical documentaries—which YouTube provides me in abundance. I will watch these on the big TV at home late at night when I am winding down for the day.  My iPad Pro (I think the 3rd edition) has the Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil connected, and as I mentioned, I use that as my main mobile device. The keyboard is wonderful to type on, and the Pencil is great for highlighting sections in documents. Strangely, I don't ever use it for writing. I'm a fountain pen user, and the Apple Pencil (or any stylus, for that matter) doesn't feel right for me. Plastic on glass doesn't work (in my humble opinion). The feel of a 14 carat gold nib on some fountain pen-friendly Japanese paper has got to be experienced to be believed. I also use my iPad Pro to listen to music when I am working. The battery on that thing lasts forever. I have a Bluetooth speaker in my office that has incredible bass (I love deep house music when I am working; the bass really helps)  My computer is for the heavy lifting: recording this podcast, editing my YouTube videos, and creating workbooks and documents. I also do a fair amount of my writing on my computer too. I also prefer to clear my actionable emails on my computer. All my design work is done on my computer from creating thumbnails for YouTube videos to workshop banners and online course materials.  And that's it for devices. Now apps.  My primary productivity apps are Apple Calendar, Todoist and Evernote. I have experimented in recent months with Apple Notes, and while Apple Notes is an excellent note-taking app, Evernote has some features that Apple Notes does not. Primarily the ability to create note links that can be pasted into Todoist. You can do this in Apple Notes, but it's fiddly, and I hate things that are fiddly.  Todoist is where I keep my tasks. It has a beautiful and simple interface, and in the ten years I have used it, it has never let me down. Todoist is on all my devices, as is Evernote, but… This is where Evernote is currently weak; I find the mobile version of Evernote poor. The text is too small, and there are too many button presses to get to where I want to be. However, as I use Drafts to get notes into my system, that's something I can live with.  And that's a good point to make. I've used Todoist for over ten years, and Evernote has been my go-to notes app for almost fifteen years. This means I have learned how to use these apps properly, I've come to trust them, and I don't have to waste time trying to figure out how to do a particular action. I've learned everything I need to learn to use these apps optimally.  Apple Calendar has been my calendar app of choice for pretty much the last twenty years. I did try Fantastical for a couple of years, but the additional features were not very useful to me. Certainly not worth a subscription.  Now for the miscellaneous apps. I use Acuity for my coaching scheduling service. This means my coaching clients can book a call whenever they want to, and there's no back-and-forth trying to find a mutually convenient time. As mentioned earlier, I use Readwise for my book highlights and for collecting articles. This is a recent change as previously I used Instapaper, but they are doubling their prices in May, and they don't offer anywhere near the service Readwise does. The great thing is as I read a book and highlight a section or add a note, those notes and highlights are synced to Evernote in a notebook called Readwise.  For all my writing, I use Ulysses. This is a fantastically minimal writing app that, in full-screen mode, is just a dark screen with white text. There are no distractions at all and I can focus all my attention on my writing. This is synced with iCloud so if I am out and about and only have my iPad with me, I can carry on writing where I left off.  I recently looked at the number of words I have in Ulysses, and it's now approaching three million. That just blew me away—three million words in eight years. I wrote my book, Your Time, Your Way in Ulysses, as well as all my podcast scripts, blog posts and newsletter articles. It's a treasure trove of all my writing, and it's all archived in iCloud. That's one of the best things about not app-switching. You begin to create an archive of all your work in one place.  There is an exception to my writing process. I send my coaching clients written feedback after each call, and for that, I use Apple's Pages, which is Apple's version of Microsoft Word. Pages allows me to use a saved template for all my feedback.  For my admin and financial tasks, I use Apple's Numbers. I don't need the complexity of Microsoft Excel; my spreadsheet needs are simple.  And that's about it. The only other item I use to get my work done is paper. I use an A4 Rhodia notebook as my planning book. This is where all my projects, weekly planning and YouTube video ideas get developed. I also returned to writing my journal by hand after using Day One for five years. That was because I felt my life was beginning to be dominated by screens, and it's nice to get more use out of my fountain pen collection.  The most important thing for me is to keep the tools I use to a minimum. I've been down the road of trying out a lot of apps. What I discovered is that it's not the app that does the work. It's me. And for me to do my work in the most efficient and effective way possible, I need as few distractions as possible. Simplicity is my keyword when it comes to apps. The longer I need to spend trying to learn to use something, the less time I spend doing work. Which in turn means I spend less time with my family and doing the things I want to do. Not a very good way to manage time or be more productive. I hope that answers your question, Mark. Thank you for sending it in and thank you to you too for listening. It just remains for me now to wish you all a very, very productive week.   

Episode 133: More on the Play Store and a Google Tablet unboxingThis week, we continue our Play Store series and unbox the Google Tablet.Announcements· For those interested in the two screen readers available on Android, Karene has written this article setting out the strengths and weaknesses of Talkback and Jieshuo.· If you'd like to donate to us, you can do so via PayPal or buying us a coffee.Android basicsThis week, we continue our series on the Play Store and Warren demonstrates the Play Store library.SpotlightJohn brings us an unboxing of the new Google Pixel Tablet, and will review it next week.App of the weekWarren demonstrates Instapaper, which allows you to save internet articles for later reading.Staying in touchYou can Make a donation Email us with suggestions or comments, Send in your Android journey stories, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram group, follow us on Twitter, subscribe to our Youtube channel, join our Club on Club house and subscribe on Facebook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can software improve the practice of reading? Tristan and Dan are the founders of Readwise. They join Adam to talk about the history of read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper; the difference between reading for betterment and reading for entertainment; and the cat-and-mouse game of web parsing. Plus: how the personal knowledge management explosion in 2020 affected digital reading. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Tristan Homsi @homsIT Dan Doyon @deadly_onion falconry My Side of the Mountain Readwise Anki Dan and Tristan meeting on Hacker News Reader Pocket, Marco Arment, Instapaper Mozilla acquires Pocket Why We’re Bootstrapping Readwise Alan Kay on computer science as pop culture Readability.js web standards acid test Reader browser extension RSS Explorable Explanations offline first JSON Patch Second Brain commonplace book, marginalia etymology of “document”

In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed with work and responsibilities. Many of us struggle to keep up with the demands of our jobs, which can lead to stress, burnout, and a decrease in productivity. Listen to the episode as we explore 15 ways to simplify your work and make your life easier. Get ready to learn some valuable tips that will help make your work life easier and reclaim your time and energy. [00:53] The inspiration for this episode [02:26] Prioritise tasks. [02:37] Focus on one task at a time. [03:03] Delegate tasks. [03:34] Use a task list. [06:07] Minimise distractions. [06:31] Take breaks [06:58] Learn to say done. [07:09] Continuously evaluate and improve. [08:12] Use templates [09:45] Manage time spent on email. [10:38] Get feedback. [11:00] Learn to say “not now” [11:47] Take advantage of technology. [12:21] Stay organized [13:09] Celebrate small wins. Check out the show notes, including links and complete transcript at https://tkcpodcast.com/028 RESOURCES The KAM Club Sponsor The KAM Club podcast. If you enjoy the show, consider sponsoring an episode. Imagine reaching a highly engaged audience of sales, key account management, and customer success professionals without having to leave the office. That's right, I do all the heavy lifting for you, including writing the scripts and sharing your wonderful products and services with my audience.  Subscribe to One Step Ahead.  My weekly newsletter guaranteed to bring you actionable tips that grow client revenue and retention. No spam, just high quality career, business trends and productivity insights from across the web – direct to your inbox. Suggest a topic. Do you have a suggestion for a topic you'd like me to cover in a future episode of The KAM Club podcast? Fill out this brief form and you never know, your idea might feature on an upcoming show. ⁠The KAM Club on Telegram⁠. Don't miss a thing. Subscribe on Telegram to find out when new podcast episodes, videos, blog posts and workshops are released. IN THIS EPISODE Readwise. Readwise makes it easy to revisit and learn from your ebook & article highlights. Sync your highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, Pocket, iBooks, and more. You can review the best parts with their email summaries and it also improves your recall through repetition and reminders. It also has a really nifty share feature that creates images from your highlights for social media (see example above) ClickUp. My preferred project management tool of choice. Simplify your work and get more done. The app combines to do lists with documents, whiteboards, dashboards, templates, automation and so much more. Get started for free. From To-Do to Done: How to Go from Busy to Productive by Mastering Your To-Do List. Excellent book by Maura Thomas on how to manage your tasks. I really like the author's system for organizing and prioritizing tasks. Another tip I've adopted from this book is to highlight my completed tasks on my paper list instead of crossing them out. Gives you a better sense of accomplishment. TextExpander. I love, love, love this tool. TextExpander lets you create customizable snippets of text that allow your team to fly through repetitive tasks quickly by expanding the things you type regularly. I use this for everything from social media hashtags, to email signatures to chasing payment from customers! 16 Essential Chrome Extensions to Really Improve Your Workflow. Chrome extensions are a fantastic way to customise the functionality and behaviour of your browser to do just about anything. But.. finding a good chrome extension is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Until now. Listen to this episode of The KAM Club podcast to find out my favourite extensions to improve your workflow (and life). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-kam-club/message

Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI) Claire Leibowicz, Tech Policy Press CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff come up with guiding principles for the future of artificial intelligence on a live panel discussion recorded at Betaworks on Monday, April 3.

I'm delighted to welcome Daniel Doyon to the pod this week, co-founder of one of my favorite software services, Readwise. Every morning while I have my coffee, I look forward to checking out the daily email roll-up of five serendipitous snippets pulled from my entire library of Kindle highlights. In this conversation, we cover: how Dan and his cofounder handled the famous “hug of death” from Tim Ferriss recommending their service in his 5-Bullet Friday newsletter; the perils of premature optimization and why you should do things that don't scale; what to do when you do slam against a scale ceiling; the benefits of running a mission-oriented business; how we're handling the progressive atrophying of our attention for reading books, and our favorite page-turners that spark joy and as Dan says, “whisk you to the end.” More About Daniel: Daniel Doyon is the cofounder of Readwise, a reading tool that helps readers revisit the highlights from their ebooks by synchronizing and then sending a daily email resurfacing the best highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, iBooks, and more. He is also an expert in creative real estate acquisitions and partnerships, bibliophile, oenophile, and sailor.

I explain one of the most embarrassing episodes in my work life. It involves an unintentional audio recording ai made during a Zoom meeting. Part of my Reading Week Reset involves refining a workflow that let's me talk to my Surface Book to dynamically generate a blog post. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you may know my son me a video about vandalism in the Clonmel Sports Hub. On 31 March, we head to GASP! in Limerick for salons between students and professional creatives. My next reset is on the first of April when I will add daily Instapaper reviews to my work flow.

For the final episode of our Solo Acts mini series, Ashley Esqueda talks with Marco Arment about being a solo app developer, going from Tumblr to Instapaper to his own podcast app Overcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Zsolt Viczian is a YouTuber, blogger, and plug-in developer for Obsidian. He creates content on business analysis, algorithms of thought, note-taking, journaling, and visual thinking inside of Obsidian. He's the creator of two plug-ins, Excalidraw, a visual-spatial drawing tool inside of Obsidian, and Excalibrain, a plug-in for visualizing relationships in your markdown documents.In this podcast you will learn:What visual thinking isWhy it's so effective at facilitating retention and understandingHow Zolt implements visual thinking into Obsidian. Zsolt's Twitter: https://www.google.com/search?q=zsolt+twitter&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS951US951&oq=zsolt+twitter&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l4j0i390l2j69i60.1805j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8Zsolt's GetHub: https://github.com/zsviczianZsolt's Visual Thinking Workshop: https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.com/Zsolt's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/visualpkm/featuredMY FREE ONLINE COURSES:

Yu-kai Chou is an Author and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification and Behavioral Design. He is the Founding Partner and Chief Creation Officer of the premium consulting/design firm The Octalysis Group, as well as the Original Creator of the Octalysis Framework, and the author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards.We talked about why games are often more engaging than real life, The Octalysis Framework-Yu-Kai's most substantial life work that breaks down all human motivation into eight core drives, why traditional schooling so boring, how to gamify your real life, flow theory as it relates to the Octaylsis, and Octalysis Prime-Yu-Kai's online gamified learning platform.Yu-Kai Chou Blog: https://yukaichou.com/Octalysis Prime: https://island.octalysisprime.com/#!/MY FAVORITE THINGS:

Cambio drástico en el RGPD / OpenAI publica un detector de ChatGPT / Será casi imposible compartir cuenta de Netflix / Amazon vende oficinas gigantes por el trabajo remoto / Cagada gigante de GitHub / NASA y Boeing crearán prototipos Truss Braced Patrocinador: Aunque el Gobierno haya eliminado las ayudas, en BP siguen los ahorros de 10 céntimos por litro utilizando la tarjeta MI BP, que puedes instalar como aplicación en tu móvil, y en cuestión de segundos empezar a ahorrar y acumular puntos. — Te dejo el catálogo de regalos y privilegios como los descuentos en Amazon. Cambio drástico en el RGPD / OpenAI publica un detector de ChatGPT / Será casi imposible compartir cuenta de Netflix / Amazon vende oficinas gigantes por el trabajo remoto / Cagada gigante de GitHub / NASA y Boeing crearán prototipos Truss Braced

Matthew Dicks is an internationally bestselling author, columnist, blogger, podcaster, playwright, and teacher. A 53-time Moth StorySLAM champion and 7-time Moth GrandSLAM champion, Matthew teaches storytelling and public speaking to individuals, corporations, universities, entrepreneurs, religious institutions, and school districts worldwide.We talked about why to tell stories, how to find stories, how to organize and develop stories in your Personal Knowledge Management system, how to make time for stories, and finally, how to tell better stories.MY FAVORITE THINGS:

Nick Milo is a YouTuber, blogger, and creator of the Linking Your Thinking Workshop, where he guides people of all different backgrounds to learn how to bring curiosity and joy back into notetaking.  We talk about why Nick transitioned from Evernote to Obsidian, the power of link-based thought and map-making, how students can become more engaged with their learning, and how we can use the concepts of flow and gamification to make real life more enjoyable. MY FREE ONLINE COURSES:

Danny Hatcher is a Youtuber, Blogger, and Author contributing to the conversation around educational science. He hosts a podcast called The Personal Knowledge Management Podcast, where he discusses topics in the field of PKM, like overcoming perfectionism, assessing note quality, extended mind theory, and more. To help him with all his research and creation, he uses Notion for collaborative efforts and Obsidian for personal notetaking. We talked about how to navigate academic research, the problems with academia, how knowledge is built over time, and the issues in traditional University education. This conversation really made me question the way I teach and learn things. Talking to Danny is profound because he questions you when you say something that conflicts with itself. He made me realize just how much creating a shared definition of certain labels is critical to having a productive conversation. I don't think I will ever come to conversations the same.Danny Hatcher YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dannyhatcherDanny Hatcher Twitter: https://twitter.com/DannyHatcherDanny Hatcher Blog: https://dannyhatcher.com/MY FAVORITE THINGS: 

What is your relationship to information? Scattered and chaotic, or clear and navigable? Do you have streamlined systems for saving, distilling, and crafting original thought-leadership from what you encounter and store, or are you stuck when it comes time to create order from the chaos? Our guest this week, Tiago Forte, is here to teach you how to develop a second brain—a mindset that transcends toolset—through information-wrangling habits that will change the way you think and create. This episode originally aired on July 19, 2022. More About Tiago: Tiago Forte is a leading productivity expert who has taught thousands of people around the world how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their productivity, creativity, and personal effectiveness. Today we're talking about his new book, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential. Learn more at Fortelabs.co, and subscribe to his Building a Second Brain podcast.

Susan Currie has 40 years of experience as a senior librarian and administrator. She worked for close to thirty years in academic libraries and knows a profound amount about information and how it's managed in society. This week we talk about how the internet has changed people's relationships with information, how librarians can help people find information in the digital age, how librarians can help people be less biased researchers and the generational differences between young and old in consuming and managing information. MY FAVORITE THINGS:

我作客《日谈公园》播客，与老朋友李叔一起聊聊读书这件事。主播 | 李叔 嘉宾 | 大狗熊本期节目，李叔越洋连线远在新西兰的老友大狗熊（听过2014年大内老节目的朋友，还记得狗哥吗？）。大狗熊，本名刘金弟，2016年从昆明来到奥克兰，目前在一家科技行业公司担任产品设计师。2012年，大狗熊的著作《苹果物语》出版，书中以美剧般轻松的方式讲解数码应用技巧。今年，他的新书《高效阅读》正式与读者见面，李叔也将在节目中，与大狗熊好好聊聊“看书这件事”！家中藏书几万，却一本不看，阻碍你看书的究竟是什么？当一本书看不下去的时候，是该咬牙坚持，还是果断放弃？用荧光笔在书上涂画，竟能大幅提高阅读量？世界上还真有一目十行的速读法！......在本期节目中，大狗熊不仅会告诉大家他自己钻研的高效阅读秘籍，也会和大家分享如何以“正念”感受“慢慢阅读”的艺术。如果你总为看不完的书而焦虑，也许可以从中获得一些安慰。节目之外，如果你还想知道更多关于“如何找到有帮助的书”、“如何读完第一本英文书？”、“如何阅读有声书”等实用方法，可以在《高效阅读》书中找到答案。也欢迎大家订阅大狗熊播客——「狗熊有话说」，听他聊更多关于阅读、旅行、科技和个人成长的故事。| Songlist |朴树-空帆船/ 节目中提到的APP工具 /Notion一款整合了笔记、知识库、资料表格、看板、日历等多种功能于一体的APP，支持个人使用，也可以与他人进行跨平台协同运作。Readwise一个可以同步收集Kindle, Instapaper, Pocket, iBooks等阅读平台中的高亮标注，自动完成导入、分类、储存和回顾的APP，同时支持网页、PDF及手动添加。ScanScan（白描）一款准确高效的OCR文字识别与扫描APP，支持OCR图片转文字，可以将图片和文档扫描成PDF文件。还可以用它扫描文件，校对文字，并进行实时翻译。/ 早年大狗熊老师在大内密谈参与录制的播客节目 /大内密谈｜vol.156 时间管理术(上)大内密谈｜vol.157 时间管理术(下)大内密谈｜vol.213 戴着电子表操着上帝的心大内密谈｜vol.379 你在奥克兰还好吗/ 节目中提到的书籍 /《高效阅读》（作者：刘金弟，2022，中国铁道出版社）《苹果物语》（作者：刘金弟，2012，电子工业出版社）《洞见：从科学到哲学，打开人类的认知真相（原作名：Why Buddhism Is True）》（作者：罗伯特·赖特，2020，北京联合出版公司）《我们为什么要睡觉（原作名：Why We Sleep）》（作者：马修·沃克，2021，北京联合出版公司）《庄子心解》 （作者：奥修，2007，陕西师范大学出版社）Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/gou-xiong-you-hua-shuo/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chủ đề của Discover Weekly lần này là phương pháp C.O.D.E giúp quản lý kiến thức và công việc dễ dàng hơn. Phương pháp này sẽ giúp bạn kết nối kiến thức, ghi chú, từ đó sáng tạo nên những góc nhìn mới.Vậy có những yếu tố quan trọng nào trong C.O.D.E, cách mà 2 hosts đã áp dụng phương pháp này như thế nào và có những lưu ý gì - tụi mình sẽ chia sẻ hết trong số Discover Weekly 12 này. Hãy cùng lắng nghe và khám phá những khía cạnh thú vị của phương pháp này nhé!--------

I'm planning to share my purpose with the Congregation in County Mayo, Ireland.My focus: https://congregation.ie/seeing-my-purpose-through-others-21-cong22/Starting next month, we will have stories about Tipperary Heritage for you to hear. To find out more about my digital transformation MA, go to https://lit.ie/en-ie/courses/postgraduate-certificate-in-leadership-communicati Cover art is a sunrise through our trees. Bonus link is my public Instapaper collection at https://www.instapaper.com/p/educastContact Bernie @topgold on all good social networks. Read Bernie in the Fediverse at https://topgold.micro.blog

主播 | 李叔 嘉宾 | 大狗熊本期节目，李叔越洋连线远在新西兰的老友大狗熊（听过2014年大内老节目的朋友，还记得狗哥吗？）。大狗熊，本名刘金弟，2016年从昆明来到奥克兰，目前在一家科技行业公司担任产品设计师。2012年，大狗熊的著作《苹果物语》出版，书中以美剧般轻松的方式讲解数码应用技巧。今年，他的新书《高效阅读》正式与读者见面，李叔也将在节目中，与大狗熊好好聊聊“看书这件事”！家中藏书几万，却一本不看，阻碍你看书的究竟是什么？当一本书看不下去的时候，是该咬牙坚持，还是果断放弃？用荧光笔在书上涂画，竟能大幅提高阅读量？世界上还真有一目十行的速读法！......在本期节目中，大狗熊不仅会告诉大家他自己钻研的高效阅读秘籍，也会和大家分享如何以“正念”感受“慢慢阅读”的艺术。如果你总为看不完的书而焦虑，也许可以从中获得一些安慰。节目之外，如果你还想知道更多关于“如何找到有帮助的书”、“如何读完第一本英文书？”、“如何阅读有声书”等实用方法，可以在《高效阅读》书中找到答案。也欢迎大家订阅大狗熊播客——「狗熊有话说」，听他聊更多关于阅读、旅行、科技和个人成长的故事。| Songlist |朴树-空帆船/ 节目中提到的APP工具 /Notion一款整合了笔记、知识库、资料表格、看板、日历等多种功能于一体的APP，支持个人使用，也可以与他人进行跨平台协同运作。Readwise一个可以同步收集Kindle, Instapaper, Pocket, iBooks等阅读平台中的高亮标注，自动完成导入、分类、储存和回顾的APP，同时支持网页、PDF及手动添加。ScanScan（白描）一款准确高效的OCR文字识别与扫描APP，支持OCR图片转文字，可以将图片和文档扫描成PDF文件。还可以用它扫描文件，校对文字，并进行实时翻译。/ 节目中提到的书籍 /《高效阅读》（作者：刘金弟，2022，中国铁道出版社）《苹果物语》（作者：刘金弟，2012，电子工业出版社）《洞见：从科学到哲学，打开人类的认知真相（原作名：Why Buddhism Is True）》（作者：罗伯特·赖特，2020，北京联合出版公司）《我们为什么要睡觉（原作名：Why We Sleep）》（作者：马修·沃克，2021，北京联合出版公司）《庄子心解》 （作者：奥修，2007，陕西师范大学出版社）

Rachel Madrigal is a Software Engineer turned product manager at Twingate and part-time YouTuber who creates vlog and Obsidian content. She's also a friend because we meet weekly for our YouTube accountability meetings. This week, we talked about Rachel's work as a software engineer and experience switching to product management, how notetaking is helping her in both careers, and her experience becoming a more minimalist Obsidian user. MY FAVORITE THINGS:

#85: Tiago Forte joins Chris to talk about his proven method to build a "Second Brain" to organize your digital life. They discuss the best tools to use to collect and store information, why it's important to become more of a maker than a consumer, why the most common way people categorize information might not be the best and a lot more.Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) is one of the world's foremost experts on productivity. His cohort-based courses teach people around the world how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their productivity, creativity, and personal effectiveness. Tiago's book is Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative PotentialFull show notes at: https://allthehacks.com/second-brain-tiago-forte Partner Deals Vuori: 20% off the most comfortable performance apparel I've ever wornMasterClass: Learn from the world's best with 15% offFabric: Affordable term life insurance for you and your familyDaffy: Donate for a chance to increase your contribution by $100 - $10,000 Selected Links From The EpisodeConnect with Tiago Forte: Website |  Instagram | TwitterTiago Forte's BookBuilding a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative PotentialResources MentionedYour Resource Guide to Building a Second BrainSecond Brain Case Study: Sleep Training an InfantEvernote Mobile AppReadwiseZapierNotion TwletsOtter.ai AirrMiroProcreateCommand EApple FilesThingsArt of AccomplishmentAssemblyAIFree Shipt Membership with Visa CardsGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free ProductivityWayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the WorldDream Studio Course Full Show NotesIntroduction to Tiago Forte (00:00)How it all started (01:49)The three-part arc people go through as they build their Second Brain (02:43)Changing the focus from finding content to making things and using technology more effectively (05:04)The Four Steps of CODE (09:14)Capture: Saving 1% of the most insightful idea, quotes, takeaways, and thoughts  (10:47)Capture tools (17:00)Tools to search across all of your saved information (26:09)Distinguishing between business and personal life mode in your organizational categories (28:39)The optimal way to organize your information (30:23)Tiago Forte's PARA method: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives (33:33)  How to begin implementing the PARA method today (37:32)Organizing your email inboxes (38:23)Types of information to offload or to keep (45:32)Doing/acting vs. rote memorization (47:34)Thinking about your First Brain: primary use cases (49:04)Tiago's acknowledgment hack (52:36)The role AI plays in our Second Brain (55:18)Tiago's Mexico City recommendation (57:36) PartnersVuoriVuori is a new and fresh perspective on performance apparel. Perfect if you are sick and tired of traditional, old workout gear. Everything is designed to work out in, but doesn't look or feel like it. The product is incredibly versatile and can be used for just about any activity like running, training, swimming, yoga; but also great for lounging or weekend errands.To get the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet with 20% off your first purchase (plus free shipping on any US order over $75 and free returns) visit allthehacks.com/vuori MasterClassWith MasterClass, you can learn from the world's best minds - anytime, anywhere, and at your own pace. With over 100 classes from a range of world-class instructors like Steph Curry, Richard Branson and Martin Scorsese, that thing you've always wanted to do is way closer than you think. When I signed up a few years ago, I jumped straight into an amazing cooking class by Thomas Keller that has totally leveled up my skills in the kitchen. 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We talked about my dad's experience researching for his thesis and books as an undergraduate without modern-day notetaking tools, what makes researchers interested in their research, the conflict with freer form notetaking and publishing, and how to make your notes accessible to the general public as an academic.MY FAVORITE THINGS:

How best to organise all your files, documents and articles? That's what we're looking at this week.  You can subscribe to this podcast on: Podbean | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | TUNEIN Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin Email Mastery Course The Time Blocking Course The Working With… Weekly Newsletter The Time And Life Mastery Course The FREE Beginners Guide To Building Your Own COD System Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page Episode 251 | Script Hello and welcome to episode 251 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host for this show. Over the years, we have seen a lot of wonderful ways to organise our stuff. Elaborate notebook and tag structures in Evernote, Complex folders on our computers organising every facet of our lives.  And all that's great. It's a fantastic way to get things organised and gives us the motivation to clear out our stuff—which is no bad thing. We do collect too much stuff anyway. However, are all these wonderful organisation methods the best use of our time? You see, getting all our stuff organised is a great idea, but that's a one-time task that may take a few days or even weeks, but long-term we have to maintain this new structure and therein lies two problems.  The first is it will take time for you to develop the natural muscle memory to move stuff to their rightful place, and in my experience, most people have enough on their plates as it is. And secondly, the deeper the organisation structure you build the longer it will take to move the stuff you collect in the future—which will mean you won't do it. After all, you likely don't have a great deal of free time as it is, so adding a new process that takes time is not going to solve any problems.  So what can we do? Well there are a few things you can do and that is what we will look at this week. However, before we do that, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week's question. This week's question comes from Janine. Janine asks: Hi Carl, I am a professor at a large hospital and I not only have patients to see, I also teach. On top of that, I need to stay up to date with the latest research. This means I have a lot of papers to read, review and study. I really struggle to keep all these things organised and wondered if you have any tips and tricks that might help.  Hi Janine, thank you for your question. This is the dilemma that has been creeping up on us over the last ten to fifteen years. More and more digital stuff has been replacing what typically would have been paper.  I remember in the late 1990s, I had a filing cabinet in my study that held all the important papers and documents I needed to keep. My car and house insurance, a file folder for gas, electric and water bills as well as bank and credit card statements oh, and a place to keep my running magazines and Law Society Gazette.  And because if I didn't file these papers away almost immediately, they would be left sitting on the dining table, there was a constant reminder that these papers and documents needed to be filed.  Today, most of these documents are now online or in digital format. I don't get bank or credit card statements through the post anymore. They are all digital. I no longer have a filing cabinet in my office. I am now largely paperless—save for documents such as my passport, residency permit papers and such like.  I can keep all these important documents in a single drawer in my office.  However, the problem isn't really just about these important documents. The problem now is we receive so much more digital clutter than we ever received paper. Largely because it is so much cheaper and easier to send out a digital document than a paper one, we get exponentially more digital stuff.  So, how do we manage all this stuff. First I would recommend you establish some basic rules. Don't put files and documents in your notes app. Over time, this will slow down your notes app. It's far better to put receipts, documents—such as your medical and teaching documents—into dedicated folders in the cloud.  Now it doesn't matter whether you use Google Drive, Microsoft OneNote, Dropbox or iCloud. What matters is how you structure your folders. My structure is based around the work I do. For instance, I have a folder for my Online courses, YouTube, and Company documentation, which includes my receipts. Inside those folders the relevant parts are added as sub-folders.  For example, inside my company folder, I have all the company registration documents, invoices I need to keep for my accountant, salaries and other such administrative documents. These are inside appropriately titled folders. For you, Janine, you would structure your folders as Medical and Teaching and then inside of those folders you would have the different areas. For instance, you would keep documents related to the different subject matters you teach inside your teaching folder under their relevant topic.  Now one piece of advice I would give you here is to try where possible to use your computer system's drive. For example, if you are using a Windows computer, use OneDrive or if you are using Apple's OS, use iCloud.  The reason for this anything on OneDrive will be searchable through your computer. Similarly, anything in iCloud will be searchable through Apple's Spotlight search tool.  I know that is not always possible, but where it is. Stick with your computer's system cloud storage system. It will just make your life a little bit easier.  Now, before we go any further, what about all your articles that need to be read (or you want to read). Use a read later service such as Instapaper or Pocket. One of the downsides to being able to save articles we see on the web is we save articles into our notes apps and then never read them. Often I see people saving these articles into a “read later” folder in their notes and then never go in there to read those articles. Soon they have hundreds of articles saved that never get read and just clutter up your notes app. Use Instapaper or Pocket to filter out articles you will never read. My system is simple. Any article I want to read, I will send to Instapaper and then, only after reading it, if Want to keep it for future reference, I will then send it to my notes app.  One thing that has happened over the last five years is Microsoft, Apple and Google have realised we are terrible at organising our stuff. For years these companies left it to us to organise our stuff how we want to and we failed. I know some people have created good, clean organisation, but most people haven't. Just look around your colleagues' desktops. They are full of documents, PDFs, Presentation files and so on.  Unfortunately, what happens then is we waste time searching for something we need.  So, Apple, Microsoft and Google have started to take that responsibility away from us and have developed excellent search tools. Apple's Spotlight for instance, will search iCloud for any document I have with a keyword, date range or type of document. It doesn't mater whether I am on my phone, MacBook or iPad. It will find those documents.  This means, once you get comfortable with how the system search works on your device, the only responsibility you have is to make sure the title of your document is something you will find.  For that I would suggest you create a format you use for all your documents. To give you an example, I use the same file naming convention for all my documents. This is The date to document was created or downloaded, the type of document. That could be invoice, receipt, or company I am creating a presentation for. And then the title.  What this does is helps me to quickly find what I am looking for directly from Spotlight. For instance, if I need to find a presentation file for a presentation I did for a company last year, All I need do is type the company name into Spotlight and I will see from the list of results what I am looking for. I can see the date, so I know I am choosing the right document and I know it is a presentation.  Another thing that Google, Apple and Microsoft have done in recent years is to keep like documents together. This means if you have an Excel file, you can keep it inside Excel. Now the document itself is kept in OneDrive, but when you open Excel, you will see all your documents in one place. Google does this with its Docs, Sheets and Slides and Apple does this with Pages, Keynote and Numbers.  At first I resisted this sticking to my old-fashioned ways of moving these documents to separate folders. However, over the years I've trusted Apple to organise these for me and it's so much easier. If I am looking for a Keynote file, all I need do is open Keynote and I can quickly find the file from the start menu.  Google is even better at this, if someone shares a Google Doc with me and I open it, it automatically gets stored in my Google Docs folder.  What I've learned over the last few years is don't fight the system. All these companies are making it easier for us to find out stuff. If we stubbornly stick to our old ways we are making it harder for us to do our work productively. If we allow our computers to worry about how we organise things, we are saving ourselves a lot of time.  We don't need elaborate organisation systems anymore. All you need is a loose folder structure that covers the different areas of our lives. This will help to keep things neat and tidy. Apart from that, let your devices worry about the organisation and start trusting your computer's system to find what you need.  Incidentally, this also applies to email. In the past I've had a lot of complex folder structures. Now, all I have is four folders: An inbox, an Action This Day folder for emails that need some form of action from me, an Archive for stuff I may need later and the trash. That's it.  Email search is incredibly fast and easy. I can search by person, date range, keyword or title. I have no need at all for elaborate folders that only slow everything down.  I hope that has helped, Janine. My advice is keep things simple, let your computer do all the hard work and focus you attention on getting your work done.  Thank you for you question and thank you to you too for listening. It just remains for me now to wish you all a very very productive week.  

Skye Helfant is a Sophomore Utrecht University student studying Artificial Intelligence. He's a great video editor and fellow YouTuber creating content documenting his journey into learning how to code. He uses Obsidian and Anki as the main knowledge management apps for his second brain. He's also my twin brother. In this episode we discuss how he uses Anki and Obsidian for language learning and coding. We discuss the pitfalls most students fall into with their notetaking. We talk what makes a life meaningful, and how to create a vision as a student.Where to find Skye:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg5RTW3JWsSmINcTLnsyXzQ?app=desktopTwitter: https://twitter.com/HelfantSkyeMY FAVORITE THINGS:

Bernie @topgold shares his love for https://readwise.io while explaining how the service works with Kindle and Instapaper. You can find Bernie's Readwise favorites at. Image of Bernie's core content places.

Chris Lastovicka is a web designer at Cornell University in the College of Engineering and a former musician. They use Obsidian to delve into their research interest in Buddhism, systems thinking, and emotion. We discuss the emotion of shame and how MOC creation in Obsidian could help people do research more effectively and intimately. We discuss using system thinking to create a notemaking system that sparks your creativity rather than driving it into the muck.Chris Lastovicka's Website: https://www.google.com/search?q=chirs+lastovicka&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS951US951&oq=chirs+lastovicka&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i13.1971j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8Chris Lastovicka's Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrislastovicka?lang=enChris Lastovicka's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrislastovicka/MY FAVORITE THINGS:

 Astrid Helfant is a high school science teacher at Hamilton Central School, where she teaches chemistry and advanced placement biology. More recently, she has started using notetaking technologies like Google Keep and Google Drive. Oh, and of course, she's the best mom in the world. I knew I would have to get that in there somewhere. In this episode, we discuss what notetaking and research were like before the internet, how she uses BASB methodologies in her teaching and life, and how we can take insight from the past to take better notes today.Simplifying PKM with Google Keep and DriveWhy Simple PKM Systems are BetterWhat notetaking history tells us about PKM todayHow Has notetaking changed Notetaking history will change the way you take notesUnderstand Simplicity in PKM from Notetaking History

Peter Su is a songwriter, former investment banker, and fellow YouTuber. He builds his second brain with a mix of Evernote, Notion, and Google Keep. By mindfully creating notes, he has been able to transfer insight from his work in songwriting and investment banking into his current passion of creating videos. Peter Su's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/petersuMY FAVORITE THINGS:

Nicole van der Hoeven is a YouTuber, developer advocate for k6, and Dungeons and Dragons lover. For the last five months, she has organized her life inside of task and knowledge management app Obsidian. We discuss how she uses Obsidian for her YouTube creation, Dungeons and Dragons playing, friendships, and consulting. We talk about how many second-brainers overcomplicate their systems. All it is is taking notes.Nicole's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NicolevanderHoevenNicole's Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_vanderhoevenMY FREE ONLINE COURSES:

What is your relationship to information? Scattered and chaotic, or clear and navigable? Do you have streamlined systems for saving, distilling, and crafting original thought-leadership from what you encounter and store, or are you stuck when it comes time to create order from the chaos? Our guest this week, Tiago Forte, is here to teach you how to develop a second brain—a mindset that transcends toolset—through information-wrangling habits that will change the way you think and create. More About Tiago: Tiago Forte is a leading productivity expert who has taught thousands of people around the world how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their productivity, creativity, and personal effectiveness. Today we're talking about his new book, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential. Learn more at Fortelabs.co, and subscribe to his Building a Second Brain podcast.

Sharing how I read the Sunday papers. For me to see what's happening, the stories have to drop into my Stoopinbox. I also use Readwise, Instapaper, and Pocketcasts for my Sunday routine.

我在节目里对比了11种网页标记（高亮和笔记）工具，包括 Matter,Raindrop,Hypothesis,Instapaper,Pocket,Inoreader,Cubox,Devonthink,Feedly,Apple Notes,简悦，并在一开始就告诉你，我推荐哪两种免费的标记工具。 接着，我分享了为什么我要更少地使用推特，以及把两份 newsletter 改名的原因。 链接 Matter app Raindrop 为什么我选择用 Hypothesis 做网页标记 happy collection Instapaper Feedly Pocket Inoreader Cubox Devonthink Take notes about a web page in Safari on Mac 简悦

IN THIS EPISODE:       New airline startup in South Africa, Joly airlines. What's your view?  The threat of a full aviation shutdown in Nigeria.  Boeing and the accident investigators find no fault in the China Eastern B737 aircraft that crashed on March 21.  Europe finally drops the ridiculous mask mandates.  Pilot shortages hit Europe. Boeing improves their aircraft backlog, Air France and Emirates show off their impressive new cabin interiors, Russian handheld GPS's and a cool Bryan Air advisory for those that enjoy reading online articles.          LINKS:        Bryan Air Advisory - Click the link to check out Instapaper: https://www.instapaper.com       SPONSOR SITES:       Simaero https://www.sim.aero  The Flying Sox (use link for a 10% discount) https://www.theflyingsox.co.za/discount/BRYANAIR Flying Eyes bit.ly/BAPflyingeyes Pilot Insure bit.ly/pilotinsure (Contact Franz at +2784 979 8632 or Dave at +2773 338 5200)           PODCAST INFO:       YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BryanRoseveare Podcast website: https://bryanair.libsyn.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/bryan-air/id1482906139 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Hb2Fpe5OsLwXf0F8xdx5Q?si=oloCHIqzSBGw0BBTQTheRQ&dl_branch=1         SUPPORT AND CONNECT:         If you would like to support the podcast by pledging a small monthly fee you can do so through Patreon, your support in this regard will be greatly appreciated (Thank You). https://www.patreon.com/bryanair         Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanroseveare/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bryanroseveare/  Twitter:https://twitter.com/bryanroseveare  Webpage: https://bryanroseveare.com

Join me for the Productivity mini-series - Part II:   How to master our time, and make tools for time accessible for everyone?   We all feel the challenge of managing our time in an effective way. So much content to consume, so many things to learn in order to optimize and grow in our various life aspects. As a founder that needs to manage so many projects at the same time - below are few hacks that you should consider implementing: Time boxing is a very efficient way to manage our calendar.  We begin with dividing our work into 2 buckets - (1) Deep work, which requires deep concentration (e.g  - prep a board PPT). It requires a higher cognitive intent. The rule of thumb for this kind of work is a 2-hours block. (2) Shallow work - a work that doesn't require too much concentration, like posting on SM. The idea - is to block our calendar in order to avoid a situation where the shallow work is minimizing our deep work time.    How can we avoid it? By designing the next week at the end of the previous week, and block 2 hours every day, usually at the same time (9-11am) to work on the 1 meaningful task that we have defined. That's exactly how the Eisenhower Matrix Method is designed. All meetings can take place after lunch time, and that way the mornings are free for creative & deep work time. Make sure to close your email, and spend 20 min, 3 times a day, on your inbox processing. Try to avoid task switching - it takes our mind 16-23 minutes to recover from distractions. If you really need external help - Simplify helps you put constraints on your email and FB lite does the same for FB. The idea is not to delete the services - but to modify them to your own needs. Remember - being a founder/ employer/ parent/ single - you are the same human being, personally and professionally wise. Hence, your calendars need to be synced, so that you will have a holistic reflection of the way you invest your time.     Matt Mochary, a CEO Coach and the author of The Great CEO Within, speaks about Calender Audit. At the end of the year - you go to your calendar and print 52 weeks of the last year and take a few markers. You mark and circle in green (e.g) the events that boosted your energy. Then, you try to put in buckets all the other events that you didn't circle - as they didn't raise your energy, according to certain patterns. First of all - you see the % of the events that weren't in a green circle - try to minimize that percentage. Then, you check what kind of substitutes you can offer to those tasks - that won't take your energy. E.g - commuting doesn't serve you well - so you work remotely >> more time in your calendar for things you love.  You have to see that you create the right categories that are shown in your calendar: family, network, IR, hirings, inbox processing, health… Each one and what is important to them.   Our brain can't remember it all, and we can't do everything we want in 24 hours minus sleeping. That's why we need to create an artificial brain - a second brain that documents information and helps us make decisions and save us precious time. Tools like Notion, clay, Roam Research (a note-taking tool for networked thought, easy to use as a document & as powerful as a graph database), mailbrew (create beautiful, automated newsletters with content from the sites and apps you love), readwise (grow wiser and retain books better: Readwise sends you a daily email resurfacing your best highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, iBooks, and more) and others - help in managing and saving our time by capturing, containing, indexing and pulling the right data/info we need for a specific task/decision. It works on the same logic of compound interest - the interest on interest. It is the result of reinvesting interest, rather than paying it out, so that interest in the next period is then earned on the principal sum plus previously accumulated interest. The same goes for the time you save and the knowledge you gain. Learning and implementing methods like Space Repetition can help boost our productivity and ability to remember.    Well, there are so many productivity and time management tools, and that is exactly the problem. How can we reduce the noise? Is there a one tool that syncs everything together? How can we create this ONE tool that is bettering our own productivity methods and techniques?    That was one of the reasons why Tommy founded Supertools - a community that aims to expose its members to various tools with the purpose of extending & optimizing their time. Just like we have superfood - we all need a supertool. That brings another major question - how much technology should we consume? Are we managing the technology, or it manages us? Technology is not good or bad - it's neutral. It simplifies our life - providing us with measurements (like apple watch), or stress and readiness levels (like Oura Ring) - but that's not enough. We need the insights, the recommendations, in order to deal with decision fatigue. It's a question of how we manage the relationship with technology tools.  We need to care about our time. The problem with calendars is that they are broken. Their purpose is being our RSVP platform - but what we actually need, is a gatekeeper, not a bookkeeper - to minimize our bad time-decisions. The only way to become time billionaires, is to change our mindsets, put systems in place and become our own Chief of Time. In order to create a huge impact - there is a need to create software - and that's what Tommy is working on now at Magical.

Questo video ti spiegherà qual è il vero motivo per cui non riesci a concentrarti, come finalmente eliminare le distrazioni e raggiungere finalmente i risultati che desideri. La concentrazione è indispensabile per progredire verso i risultati. Perché allora è tanto facile distrarsi? Social media, chat, riunioni: tutti si lamentano di avere troppe distrazioni. Ma non è un problema nuovo. In passato si sono alternati mille altri capri espiatori: la TV, il computer (senza internet), il rumore delle città... Il problema non è fuori ma dentro di te. Ma magari se riesci a escludere qualche stimolo esterno non è male... In questo video ti spiego: - quali meccanismi interiori ti rendono così vulnerabile alle distrazioni - come le forze esterne li attivano - come limitare le cause di distrazione. Ecco le risorse citate nel video: - come diventare indistraibili, lo spunto per questo video https://amzn.to/2MH0sFD - catturare i clienti https://amzn.to/3rYzGsf - la guerra dell'arte, il libro che spiega cos'è la Resistenza https://amzn.to/3rX7DcI - l'intervista a Jerry Seinfeld che parla di come si costringe a lavorare su quello che serve https://tim.blog/2020/12/08/jerry-sei... - i miei pilastri della produttività https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HROmY... - Instapaper https://www.instapaper.com/ - Pocket https://getpocket.com/ Indice: 0:00 Introduzione 0:45 Il danno delle distrazioni 01:18 Come rompere il circolo vizioso delle distrazioni? 3:25 La definizione di distrazione 04:07 Perché cedi alle distrazioni 06:31 Una nuova gestione del tempo 06:58 Conosci gli interruttori interni che ti portano alla distrazione 10:48 Scopri i tuoi valori 11:43 Blocca il calendario 13:36 Elimina i trigger esterni che ti distraggono --- Ricevi gratuitamente via email le idee più utili da libri ed articoli su crescita personale, business e produttività. Iscriviti su https://italianindie.com/ ---

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In this episode, we talk about the joy of reading, note taking, Roam Research vs. Notion, and applying note taking techniques to writing and idea creation. Links Episode 55 - Bible Notetaking Systems with Matthew EverhardRelearning the Joy of Reading (Blog)How to Take Smart Notes by **Sönke AhrensTrack book series for students – Track is a series of books designed to disciple the next generation in the areas of culture, doctrine, & the Christian life. While the topics addressed aren't always simple, they are communicated in a manner that is. ⏳If you enjoy Redeeming Productivity, consider supporting my work on Patreon, where you'll get exclusive updates and early releases of new content. Time Stamps 01:42 Relearning the Joy of Reading 02:17 How to Take Smart Notes 04:39 Trying Roam Research (Again) 06:53 Roam Research vs. Notion 09:44 Applying Smart Note to My Book Project 14:17 Smart Notes for Idea Creation Transcript Hello, and welcome to the redeeming productivity show. This is the podcast that helps Christians get more done, and get it done like Christians. And I'm your host, Reagan Rose. Well, I am on vacation this week in Florida with my family. So if you hear some background noise, that's probably my son screaming, or my wife cooking dinner right now, we're having fish tacos. So this episode, I'm going to do kind of a little bit more of what my friend Daryl Harrison calls a freestyle episode. And basically, I'm just going to be talking about a few things that I've been thinking about learning and reading about that have application to personal productivity. And it's not super structured, it's not super outlined. But hopefully, it'll be super fun. I just didn't want to go two weeks without giving you guys an episode. So here we are, we're gonna be talking about I guess we'll be talking really about note taking, which I know I've talked about a lot with my interview with Matthew everhard. And some of the other episodes. In recent history, we're talking about the Citadel, Kazakhstan, you know, and and knowledge management systems. But it's something I just keep digging deeper and deeper into. And the more I think about it, the more I think that if if we could kind of come up with a better way to organize our thinking, organize our notes. And as we're reading and stuff, and I think it's a worthy endeavor, to try to find a good better way of taking notes. In fact, if you haven't seen the blog post I posted last week on relearning the joy of reading, you should check that out I in that I talk a little bit about how one of the things that's helped me regained kind of a love for reading, in recent days, has been trying to get better at taking notes and retaining what I'm reading in a way that doesn't get in the way of the reading process, but actually, helps make it a bit more fun, actually. And so, as I've been thinking about that, and trying to get better at that, I bought a book that I'd been hearing a lot about, called How to take smart notes, by some K, Aaron's and this is a great, great read, if you have any interest at all in research and writing or any of that kind of stuff. This is a book that is worth your time checking out. It's called How to take smart notes. And I have been implementing already. And in fact, kind of ironically, a little Inception wise, I've been implementing some of the ways of taking notes that the book talks about, as I'm reading the book. So in the notes on the book, but basically, what how to take smart notes is about is it's about writing and thinking and the fact that those processes can be improved through a more organized note taking system. And they kind of flip the the traditional idea of how you would go about writing something on its head. So instead of what we're kind of taught in school of starting by starting writing a project based on choosing a topic, and then going and finding all the resources, you know, and then doing all your research and then writing on that topic. Basically, the goal of this smart note taking system is that you have already written about a bunch of different things as as you've read, and as you've thought about those things. And you've just organized those into a system. And then when a writing assignment comes up, or an idea for maybe a blog post or my case, like a podcast episode, or even a book, something like that comes up, then what you're doing is you're basically pulling together things you've already written on, and it becomes more of an editing job. And it's actually really fascinating way of going about it. And as I mentioned in a previous episode, the Zettelkastan method, that's basically what this book is about. So definitely worth checking out. And it's it's just an interesting approach to note taking. And so I've been trying to do that, as I haven't read that book. I've been trying to do that with some of the articles I've been reading and trying to get better at that. And in that vein, I have taken another swing at the software program roam research, and I've actually heard from a number of you who have asked me if I like Chrome or if I've tried using it or all that and I I am more convinced now than I was maybe a month or two ago when I first mentioned it Roam if You don't know what it is, it's a basically an approach to it's a software program, a subscription that has a really interesting way of taking notes in it. And when you first use it, it can be pretty daunting. Because it's not like a traditional thing where you just have pages and pages of individual notes. Now they're all cross reference to each other, every little block, every paragraph, every bullet point sort of thing is cross referenced. And it has a bunch of other more powerful features to where anything could be a to do list item, anything could be all these different types of content. And it's, like I said, it's a little bit daunting. So I have committed myself to giving it another month, and really pouring myself into trying to use Rome research to organize my note taking. And so this can be everything from my daily journal is in here, too, as I'm reading articles, and I want to take notes on them. That those come from Instapaper, where I save my articles, or even like I mentioned, book notes, everything goes in here. Any ideas I have, for a blog post, any ideas I have about this would be a cool thing to write on. I'm just dumping them in here, trying to cross reference them with other things and build out this sort of knowledge management system, and see if it actually bears fruit for me. Now, I talk about software and systems on here a lot. And a lot of you guys if you've been listening for a while know that I am a huge fan of notion, notion n o t IO n. And I have really put my life into notion over the last year or so. And so much so that that is probably the biggest barrier I have right now to trying to switch things over to using Rome research for note taking and knowledge management. So the question I think is going to be a win win, do I put something to notion when do I put it in research, because I don't think Rome can actually replace everything that notion can do in some kind of experimenting with that. But here's, here's kind of my working hypothesis right now. So if you if you're still with me, on this kind of much more nerding out episode of the podcast, here, here's my kind of grid for how I'm thinking I'll use notion and research together. I think that I'll be using Rome research for note taking, and knowledge management. So as I'm, like I said, if I'm reading a book, all my highlights are getting dumped into there, I'm taking I'm summarizing chapters of the book, I if I have an idea for I just want to write on the same I'm reading first john, and I'm like, hey, I want to write some insights. I'm thinking about how Dec could apply this in life. And I don't know, is that going to be a blog post someday? Is that gonna be part of a book? I have no idea. I'm just gonna dump it all in there. But I'm gonna keep using notion for project management, which is primarily most days what I'm using it for. And that is kind of deciding on what, what episodes of the podcast am I going to do next? If I'm doing a video, what things do I need to do to shoot that? A lot of things like that, that I just feel like it's better at because of its table system. And it's like databases, and that you can do can ban boards in there. I know you can do them in Rome and the Rome, people are gonna get mad at me for saying this. But I just I think it's easier. And I think notions more built for those sort of things. But I do totally see that, that Rome is a better place to just dump ideas as you have them and build out sort of this network of thought. So if you if you don't use Rome or notion, you probably have no idea what I was taught what I'm talking about right now. But I do recommend both of those to you notion is totally free. Rome research is daunting $15 a month, but they do have a 31 day trial. And, man, I'm liking it, I I'll be honest with you, I think it's, I think I'm probably gonna end up sticking with him. So we'll see, I'll keep you posted. But in my kind of quest to really pour myself into Rome, and really take it seriously and try to go as deep as I can with it so that if I decide not to use it in the future, I will have given it a fair shake. Here's the project I'm working on. I'm building a book in Rome. So that's kind of the that's I'm doing a lot of stuff at the same time. But I'm trying to apply what I've been reading in how to take smart notes, which is where you basically take all these different notes and then you arrange them later into a work. So in my case, a book. And I'm trying to do that using Rome as my kind of my slip box, as they call it in the book. So what's the book I'm working on? Well, I'm actually working on a book for a series that Christian Focus, it's called the Track series, and it's edited by John Perritt of reform youth ministries, and they are, but there's a bunch of these books, in fact, I recommend to you, especially if you're a pastor is your great little books for students on a variety of just very practical issues. Like there's one by ligand Duncan on sanctification. There's one by Ed Welch. JOHN parrot, the the editor they mentioned he did one that's really good on technology. And it's geared towards middle school, high school and college students. And it's not puff, I mean, it is it is solidly grounded in the Word of God, you know, which, unfortunately, a lot of student resources are not. But I would encourage you check out the track series from Christian focus. And especially check it out since I'm, I'll be contributing to it in the next little while. So I'm working on a little book for that series. And I'm trying to approach this in a smart way. So I have mountains and mountains of research that I have done on the topic of video games and video game addiction, which is what my book is about when you're like, what are you doing video games with me and productivity? Well, that's another passion of mine, not video games, but I'm helping Christians to understand the addictive nature of video games that are created to be addictive, and that we need to not that they're bad, but we need to approach them with a certain degree of caution. And so I'm going to be writing about that. And I already have written a ton about it, I think I have something like 50,000 words, with references to research I've written I've read tons and tons of books and articles on the subject. But when I was working on it, over the last few years, I have been writing all for more like an academic research work. For some reason, I didn't really know who the audiences be, I just kept writing stuff as as I was reading amount of thinking about it. So now I have all these notes on different sort of topics on the subject of video games and, and different history, things or illustrations, but they're all these different kind of atomized little notes. And so I'm trying to apply the principles from this book, smart notes, where I'm in do this in Rome, where I basically have a chapter list that I'm trying to do in for this book, and I'm going through and rereading all the notes I've ever taken. And I'm importing them into Rome as individual notes. And then I'm cross referencing them to the video game books project, and to the individual chapter they think that they'll best fit with. And my thought is, if, if this book is to be believed, that when all those are done, I'll basically have a bunch of research all in context that I can look at. And then I can some parts that I can copy and paste and basically start to build out the structure for the chapter. After obviously, right new material and stuff connected all together, or some parts, I'll need to totally rewrite because a different audience. And hopefully, it will turn this giant daunting process of write a book into, basically take all the things I've already done, and turn them into something much better that will finally hopefully, finally, see the light of day and someone will actually read it. So that's my my project before me. And that's how I'm trying to apply how to take smart notes by some gay Aaron's, and I'm doing it in Rome research. So I don't know if you guys care at all about this, but I always find it helpful. And I always ask guests when I have them on here about what tools they use and what methods and so I thought I'd just share with you what I'm doing right now, in lieu of a more reserved or formal episode. So that's what I'm doing. And I'm excited about it. So far, I've been having a lot of fun doing it. It's It's nice to be on vacation, you know, and kind of let the mind relax and just work on projects you want to work on. And so that's what I'm doing. And I'm enjoying it. And again, yeah, I'll keep you posted. I also am hopeful that this will bear more fruit in terms of ideas for podcast episodes and blog posts and videos. Because I do think that if you're reading, why not also capture the ideas that you're reading spawns in your mind, right if you already consuming something, why not have a way of capturing what those thoughts that come off of that in a place where you can maybe eventually use them for something else. So that's what this book, how to take smart notes helps you to do. And that's probably enough rambling for now. I'm gonna get back to my vacation. And some fish tacos which I could smell in the other room. But I appreciate you guys listening. I'll have a more polished maybe maybe episode next week. But until I see you again, remember this that in whatever you do, do it well and do it all for the glory of God Transcribed by https://otter.ai

These days there are thousands of options when it comes to productivity tools. But one great debate still persists: Which is better, paper or digital productivity tools? I think there's a place for both. In this episode, I demonstrate that it's not a question of either/or, but rather of which/when. And I give some principles for choosing which productivity tasks are better done on paper and which are better done using apps. Links This episode is based in part on the blog post, Paper vs. Digital Productivity Tools.Checkout the LifeJournal that I mentioned in today's episode. Sign-up for the Redeeming Productivity Newsletter. ⏳If you enjoy Redeeming Productivity, consider supporting my work on Patreon, where you'll get exclusive updates and early releases of new content. Transcript 00:00:08 - Welcome to the Redeeming Productivity Show. This is the podcast that helps Christians get more done and get it done like Christians. And I'm your host Reagan Rose.00:00:22 - Well, thanks for listening in. We've got an interesting episode for you today. When we talking about paper versus digital productivity tools and kind of the pros and cons of each and how you can sort of mix and match, uh, some paper planning tools with digital tools and even just kind of some high-level principles to think through what would be best for what types of activities, uh, productivity-wise. Um, but before I jump into that, just want to do the little preamble I always do, which is to say, if you're listening and you like this, please do subscribe to your favorite podcast thing. So you get notified if the next one, for example, if one doesn't come out on Monday, like normal and instead comes out way later in the week, like right now, uh, you will just get it in your podcast player. Well, I don't need to explain podcasts to you.00:01:16 - You're listening to one and also a special thank you to the Patreon supporters, guys. Thank you so much for supporting the podcast. Um, it is encouraging to me and helps me pay the bills to keep this going. And if any of you who are listening would like to become a patron supporter, throw a couple of bucks in the hat. Uh, it is patrion.com/redeeming prod. Okay, let's get into the meat of the episode. Um, so paper versus digital tools. So with productivity, there are, um, many, many tools available to us. Uh, the, you can go as simple as just a hit a, a to-do list or setting goals on a piece of paper, but, uh, so much of productivity is about what tools you use. And especially now in the digital era, there are countless types of tools you can use in the computer, countless apps, countless services, countless automation that you can use to increase your productivity.00:02:24 - And it can get a little bit overwhelming, to be honest. I've mentioned before that when I do as doing college ministry, I think even when I was a college student, I did, this is, I just had a little tiny notebook with a little tiny pen, and I would just write in there some boxes and some little tasks for the day. And I tick off the boxes, uh, to make sure I got everything done. I needed to do that day. And that was a productivity tool. It was small, it was rudimentary, but that was, that was all I did with it. Uh, and then after I read, um, David, Allen's getting things done, I realized, Oh, I'm basically using his sort of getting things done system, but not as smartly. And so then I was using the paper to record those tasks and, and migrate them to the next day, make sure that, that I had a place to capture everything and process it and, and put it into the right category.00:03:17 - And I was doing that all paper-wise. Now, though, fast forward to today, I suffer from a condition that doctors call shiny new tools syndrome. And that is, uh, my excuse for that is that I write and do a podcast on productivity. And so I can excuse to myself, my constant flooding from one tool to another, um, you know, each week, it seems like I'm telling you about some new app I'm using or some new tool for productivity. And that's because I am, I'm switching all the time with different aspects of my productivity. And this is my burden that I bear for you. Dear listener really I'd be highly would be doing this, even if I wasn't teaching on this and talking about these subjects, because again, it's, it's shiny new tool syndrome. A new app comes out and here I am first in line to grab it and try it and disrupt my whole well oiled machine of productivity systems.00:04:18 - But again, my burden to bear. Uh, but I do think that no matter what you do, there really isn't one productivity tool to, um, to rule them all. Um, and in the darkness behind them, because there's just so many different things you do, and there's different personality types. And I just find that there, there are some things I like to do a certain way, and there's some things I like to do a different way. And that's okay. Um, for example, you know, like right now, there are a lot of things that I do digitally, but there's a lot of things I do on paper. Like I, I still keep a, my, my personal journal, um, on paper. Um, and while I manage my like longterm tasks and things like that in apps each day, I manage the tasks for the day on a piece of paper.00:05:10 - And there's just something about putting pen on paper there that I find focusing. And so I just think no matter what, you're going to use a hybrid of tools and some of those may be paper and some of those may be digital. I don't think it's a question of which is better. Should I use a digital productivity system or a paper system? Um, they're all, there are all in one systems for either one of those, right? I mean, um, the bullet journal is probably the closest thing I can think of that actually. Uh, has you doing everything on paper, like keeping calendars and reminders and events and things like that, all in one spot, along with your tasks? Um, I I've done bullet journaling before. I still do some kind of hybrid approach to it, but I really hate the idea of keeping calendars in a paper planner, because what if I don't have it?00:06:05 - I mean, it's a big notebook. I don't, I'm not going to wear cargo shorts everywhere. I'll tell you that much right now with a big planner in the, in the pocket. I'm probably not going to wear cargo shorts at all. It's my wife would leave me. Um, so anyway, my point is really just pros and cons to all those things. And I use a variety of tools right now, and I probably all always will. Um, there's also, uh, some cool tools that exist right now that have never existed before I've mentioned software stuff. I would, did want to tell you about one that I'm about to start using. I just wanted to give kind of a, a plug for, uh, because it's very cool, a very well designed. Um, and it's a, it's a paper planner. So in the past, I've used, you may have have ads for these that you've seen, but I've, I've used these all before the self journal, which is a really cool little paper daily planner time blocking thing, the full focus planner, which is something Michael Hyatt came out with.00:07:04 - I've used that before. Um, didn't love it. Didn't hate it just wasn't for me, but now I have an actually holding one right now. Um, the life journal is a very cool, um, like planner journal. It's a 13-week planner that helps you focus on not just like your tasks and stuff, but, uh, spiritual disciplines. It's built around goal setting and, and productivity, all that in one. And it's neat. It's got like prompts for, um, what you read in the scripture today. Uh, it's got a spot where you can map out your daily schedule. What are your top three tasks? Um, how are you applying what you read in scripture? Things like that it's even got a spot, um, for taking notes on sermons and podcast that you're listening to. Um, it's just a really cool all in one type journal for a Christian.00:07:53 - And these are, this is really neat. I'm about to start in this. I'm gonna do 13 weeks with it and try it out. I'll tell you at the end, um, my impressions on it, but I definitely even from first blush, I recommend it cause there are types of tools in here that I've used before and other, uh, paper planners that I've loved. Um, but this one's specifically, you know, kind of faith-based as I recommend that to you. If you go to gospel focused.com, um, you can pick one up there, you can read more about it, um, and, uh, try that out, but, okay. Let's get philosophical here for a minute. Um, as I've used different tools over the years here is kind of the key distinction that is emerged in my mind between digital and paper productivity tools. And then I'll kind of flesh it out a little bit.00:08:46 - So the key distinction is that digital is for storing paper is for processing. So I'm going to, I'm going to build on that a little bit, but this is, this is kind of like I could, you know, distill it, reduce it down to it's a key difference. Digital is for storing papers for processing. Okay. So let's, uh, let's look at the digital side of that real quick. So I say that the, the pro that digital brings to the table, the thing that it's best at that it is better than paper at is storing. Um, and what I mean by that is three things, persistent storage, easily accessible storage. And even as it comes to reminders, the reliability of the things you read that you store in there that they'll come back to you, of course, if I took a hand written note, it is technically, you know, stored it's in a notebook somewhere, but, uh, it's not the best way to store information.00:09:50 - I think computers are better at this because I can use a find function or I can, uh, have automated ways for the, for the software to re present to me information from the past. Uh, in fact, there's a great app I'm using right now, it's called read wise. And if you take highlights in Kindle or like on Instapaper or pocket or something like that, you can hook it up to read wise, realize we'll take all of those highlights. And then each day it sends you like a daily digest of old highlights. And so I think I have mine set up, it sends me five a day and every morning, and that's kind of been part of my morning routine. I get this little email and it has five highlights from old books that I've read or old articles and things that I thought interesting. And a lot of it's from years and years ago, because I've been reading Kindle books for years.00:10:38 - And I just love that. It's such a cool little way to remind it of old insights. I might jump into the book and read the context and be like, Oh yeah, that was, that was fascinating. Um, but that I think is a good example of digital storage. Uh, being able to remind you of something resurfacing things, uh, from the past in an automatic way, which I would not have found. I mean, some of those books, I don't even remember reading. Um, so that, that thing is a good, good example there read wise is the name of that app. Do you wanna check it out? Um, but the main thing with digital storage is that is persistent. Um, it is always there. You're not, it's not going to go away. Um, as long as you know, all the servers don't die, your computer doesn't explode and the EMP doesn't blow up.00:11:29 - Um, but that's kind of was one of the issues when I was doing bullet journaling, was that even though I was, you know, staying on top of a logging, everything each day, managing like longterm tasks, really gummed everything up. I I'd be transferring things from log to log from day to day. And if I, if I wasn't good about like reviewing my planner every week and every day, things would get forgotten. Sometimes they get left behind or sometimes they'd just be following me around for weeks and I'd have to hand copy them. Um, and also I kept finding that the more things I put in the planner, the more I lost, uh, if I, if I didn't keep it simple, uh, the complexity would, would go out to control much faster than if I use digital tools. Um, but I kept a good index, but even then I found myself missing that ability.00:12:18 - I haven't a computer to do like a command F on my Mac and find a specific note or find a keyword that I remember about something. So there's that speed. That was, that was lost. Um, so that's, what's cool about digital everything's index. Everything's searchable. I can organize, I can reorganize to my heart's content. And I have confidence that if I put something in my digital storage tools, uh, and everything being equal, I'll be able to find it again. And so, so another part of that is so it's persistent, but digital storage is also easily accessible. I just mentioned the command F thing that you can find things within there. Um, make sure you don't lose, um, the things that you've stored, but it's also easily accessible in the sense that, like I mentioned before, you don't have to carry around a giant notebook with you, um, or hundreds of giant notebooks.00:13:10 - If you have years of information that you've been storing, uh, your phone, your, a little smartphone has everything from your Evernote or your notion, or even your file system like on Dropbox or, or, or, um, or iCloud right at your fingertips. And that's, I think is a huge advantage of digital, you know, we might criticize it that it's distracting having these phones and, and it's tough to have all the world's information at your fingertips, but man, it is pretty nice to know that you can get at stuff you've put in your digital systems anywhere, anytime you need to. Um, so that's what I like. And I, I look for that in productivity apps, something that syncs across all my devices, um, cause I don't always have my computer with me. And then finally, just on the subject of digital for storing, there's just, uh, what I would call reliable reminders.00:14:03 - Um, you can you, even, if you keep a calendar on a digital tool, the fact is there are no notifications built into your notebook. Even the coolest, even FranklinCovey planners don't have notifications built into their paper planner calendars. Why? Well, because that's just the way the world works. It's not possible, but digital tools can remind me 15 minutes before a meeting that I need to, you know, get up and go. Um, they, they can remind me with, with tasks that, Hey, you said that you were going to mow the lawn this weekend and I don't have to think about it, but it just pops up on, on Saturday morning. I'm like, okay, that's, that's the task for the day. You know what I mean? Like all of that automation type stuff that's available with digital tools not available on paper. And so I think that that's definitely, um, a digital has the edge on paper in that regard.00:14:59 - Um, but, and this is what I want to stress is that doesn't mean that paper is good for nothing. I, like I mentioned the beginning, I still use a physical paper notebook, uh, in my productivity arsenal. I still use it to take notes. I still use it to plan my, my individual days. And I'm about to use it for a bunch of stuff. When I jump into this life journal that I have here. Um, and that's because paper has a benefits that digital does not. Um, and let me, let me pause to make it even broader point just about life, the universe and everything there is, I think in modern thought this, this feeling that as we make, quote, unquote, progress, that it is always better. Um, and I think I can have this attitude sometimes that digital is always better than something that is, um, not digital and that progress always means improvement.00:15:51 - It doesn't technology does not always make things better. Sometimes for example, it is better that you go slower with something and you say, well, there's digital thing. Maybe it makes it so much easier, so much faster to do and do X, Y, or Z. Um, and so therefore it's better. Maybe there's a reason that it's slower. Uh, maybe there's a reason that, um, it takes a long time to dig a fence post hole and you don't necessarily need a giant machine to do it. Um, that was a metaphor. So papers for processing. This is my, my, uh, my, my key principle on the other side of it is data digitals for storage papers for processing. Okay. It can do things that digital can't do. Um, I think that this is, I have found no way around this with digital tools, but there is something about when I use a nice pen and a piece of paper that just makes the creative juices flow.00:16:56 - Um, and here's kind of some of the reasons I think that this is better. I think that paper is better for processing ideas. Uh, one is because paper's disposable. Um, now that goes against kind of what I'd said before about digital being better because for storage, but when it comes to processing information or thinking, I should say, um, the fact that paper is transient by nature, uh, helps me, at least with my paralysis of analysis, I have, uh, a tendency towards perfectionism. And I feel like if I'm doing it on a computer, I don't know why, but I have to get it exactly right. But doing, working out some thoughts on a piece of paper first that I, that I know I'm going to throw away kinda helps me with that because I'm like, it doesn't have to be perfect. I'm just going to throw this in the waste bin, the waste bin, I'm an American I'm going to throw in the trash can waistband.00:17:50 - Um, so knowing that whatever I jot down is not being committed to some eternal digital archive that gives me the freedom to think with fewer boundaries. Um, and I even enjoy it. I love like, you know, the classic trope of, uh, of the writer crinkling up the piece of paper and throwing it in the, in the garbage I like that because it's like, it's gone now paper because paper's disposable. It just makes it a better tool for processing thoughts. Um, second with that is paper's good for processing because paper slows you down. I'm thinking a, something that can't be rushed. Uh, the power of, of, of paper is that when you have to write it out by hand, it takes longer. And I've, I've heard this. Um, my pastor, John MacArthur has said this, and I've probably mentioned it here on this podcast before, but he says that, well, I'll say that he repeat prepares his sermons.00:18:52 - They're hour-long sermons. He prepares them with a fountain pen and a piece of paper. And he's been doing that his whole life, which is nuts. He doesn't type it out on a computer or anything. It's just handwritten things and it is slower. And he said that it's slower, um, than if he would, would use a computer. But he says, it's a good thing because it slows them down. That's why he uses a fountain pen is he has to stop and refill it. And, and there's this, um, slowing down that helps with thinking to aid that process. And I have experienced this too, like as a writer, um, you kind of think, well, writing is getting as many words as possible onto the page each day. So you can like keep writing the most right writing is writing. But writing is really just thinking in the same way with, with sermon preparation, sermon preparation.00:19:46 - Isn't just about getting the words on the paper. It's about getting the right words on the paper. It's about thinking and processing and then getting that out there in a crystallized form. And so speed of getting information onto a document is not necessarily the end all be all. It's not necessarily progress that you were able to type. I don't know, a thousand words a minute. That's probably is a lot. I don't know, actually, what is a lot of words per minute, but it's not, it's not necessarily progress that you were able to put the most words onto the computer because your fingers went a mile a minute. It's more important that you put the right words. And so paper, I do, I think it has a leg up on, um, digital tools because it makes you go slower and think so. Yeah. Clacking on the keyboard enables me to write faster.00:20:37 - That's a fact, but it does not necessarily mean that I'm writing more thoughtfully. So paper can help you with that, not to get out of yourself. And then finally with paper, um, in this under the sub heading of papers for processing, is that right? Paper is better for processing than digital because it just stroll. I use distractions, absolutely obliterates them. Um, when I opened up my computer, that is the last thing I do every morning. Um, because that is just inviting problems. If you're, if you're, um, if your phone or your computer or your iPad or whatever it is you're using, that has wifi, it has email, it has social media. It has all these distractions. Even if you turn all those things off, you kind of know they're there. And that too is distracting. Um, uh, actually researchers have found this, that people are distracted even by the, whether or not their phone is notifying them.00:21:36 - The fact that their phone could notify them is distracting to them. If that makes sense. And the great thing about paper that I think is a really great feature of paper, is that it doesn't have wifi. It doesn't have a Bluetooth antenna, it doesn't have notifications. And so like with those, uh, features or lack of features, I think there's a massive advantage. And so I, if I really want to focus, I want to do some, some thinking. I want to do that on paper because I don't want to be interrupted. Um, and like I said, that's in, in the morning, the last thing I do is open my computer. I leave my phone on the little charger next to my bedside. When I leave, uh, to get up in the morning, I don't look at my phone at all, if I'm being good and I come out to the kitchen, I open up my journal.00:22:21 - I write in my journal, I read my Bible. I pray, I do all that stuff. And it only, at the end of that, do I open up my computer? Because oftentimes when I opened that computer, I ended up going down the rabbit hole. I'm not as productive as I want to be. And, um, sometimes you're gonna end up throwing my whole day into disarray because some email will come through that I have to deal with them. And so that's why I delay it. And that's why stick to paper stuff initially, so that I don't lose that time of focus, that time of thinking that time of really being focused and, uh, being with the Lord as I, as I studied his word. And I, um, and I pray, so paper is awesome because I used to lie to you from those distractions. And thus helps you to process your thoughts better than you can with digital tools, that invite distraction.00:23:12 - So that is it. I hope that's somewhat helpful for you. Those are kind of the, the big thing. That's all I wanted to share with you today is that, Hey, there is a place for paper tools. There's a place for digital tools. You don't have to do everything with one productivity tool. Um, and big picture. My conclusion is that the great distinction between these two is that digital is really good at storing paper is really good for processing. If you think about those, them in those terms, that might help you to build out your own productivity arsenal. Um, and that is something that's going to look different from everybody. I think it's a personal thing, what apps you like, uh, and what tools you use and whether you're more paper geared or digital geared, but feel free to mix and match. And, um, maybe some of those principles will help you as you think through it. Well, that's all I have for you today. Thanks so much for listening. I'm sorry. Again, this is coming out so late in the week, it has been a crazy couple of weeks. Um, but, uh, it's all good and glad to be back with you. And, um, I will see you again here next week, but until I do remember this in whatever you do, do it well and do it all to the glory of God.

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Jeg kan jo godt lide systemer, struktur og overblik - og jeg har i mange år været på jagt efter værktøjer, der kan hjælpe, uden dog nogensinde at finde det helt rigtige. De primære behov er noget med at kunne samle links, artikler og pdf’er, organisere og strukturere samlingen, lave highlights og noter i dem, og så også gerne kunne dele eller eksportere de highlights til de apps, jeg så skriver i. I denne sommer har jeg taget endnu en tur, og set på adskillige håndfulde tjenester og apps, uden dog at være blevet helt tilfreds. Det fortæller jeg om i denne lidt specielle episode, hvor jeg selv er gæst… Og husk - har du tips om apps jeg ikke har nævnt (eller hvis du har fundet features, jeg åbenbart har overset), så sig endelig til! Det samme gælder naturligvis, hvis du mener du rent faktisk kan lave præcis det værktøj, jeg har behov for

Recorded 10th June 2018 Well this week it has been all about WWDC and that was all about the software. I am joined by iOS developer WeyHan Ng to talk about all that and a few other stories too. Extra special thanks to Han for being a real trouper after I forgot to push the record button... (What a numpty!) Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the malarkey! I may not have mentioned this enough but thank you all you Patreon supporters (we really do appreciate you) and Mark even put out some Patreon only content last week! Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 free “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: WEYHAN NG On Twitter as @weyhan On GitHub as weyhan Contributes to WWDC Video downloader iOS Developer who goes by handle the Eccentric iOS developer Used to go by the name Han... APPLE WWDC – Keynote and State of the Union Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2018 in Six Minutes – Mac Rumors macOS Dark Mode Apple News (yes!), Stocks (meh!), Voice Memos (OK), and Home (many people will welcome that) Even better this means iOS App portability coming next year... Apple's Software Chief Details How iOS Apps Will Run on Macs – Wired Desktop Stacks – Automatic organizing of desktop files into kinds (images, documents, etc.). You click on a stack to expand it. Metal – Metal is being beefed up with more scaling features. Create ML – Developers can use Metal to harness their GPU and make their own machine learning tools. File Vault Improvements – File Vault security protections will be extended to more areas of macOS in Mojave. Gallery View – A new Finder view that combines the carousel thing Apple has tried to make us want for years, but coupled with a solid preview pane and a pane for metadata. Quick View Update – Mac users will be able to use Markup right from the Quick View in the Finder. Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention Improvements – Safari will prevent social network sharing buttons and comment engines from tracking you without permission. Group FaceTime calls – Video chat with up to 32 of your favorite people. Continuity Camera – Use the camera on your iPhone directly from your Mac for photos and scanning! iOS UI Kit – A set of frameworks that will make it easier to port iOS apps to macOS. Developers can do it starting in 2019, while Apple is starting it with the four apps mentioned above. New Mac App Store – Apple is giving the Mac App Store some much needed love. It will have a redesigned interface that includes some of the discoverability features that have been added to the iOS App Store. 8 ways macOS Mojave is going to make your Mac much better - Stuff 5: IT'S MUCH EASIER TO RECORD YOUR SCREEN - iOS style screen shot HUD makes it a lot easier to capture screen shot. Here is a demo 32 bit apps are safe for a final year – 9to5 Mac iOS 12 iOS 12 – Ars Technica iOS 12 perfomance improvements Siri Shortcuts (a massively under realised potential???) Shared AR and persistent experiences and more Dennō Coil Group Facetime Video Animoji and Memoji Digital wellbeing with “Screen Time” (bleh... but I suppose they had to to it) WWDC 2018: Tech Addiction and the Paradox of Apple's 'Screen Time' Tools – Wired Everything Apple Announced at WWDC Is Free - Here's a Complete List – The Mac Observer TECHNOLOGY Instapaper is STILL unavailable for users in Europe – but Pocket are there for you... Pocket Iconic Yahoo Messenger will shut down after 20 years – Cult of Mac SECURITY Hacked: 92 Million Account Details for DNA Testing Service MyHeritage – Motherboard Russian Router Malware Just Got Much Worse: What to Do – Tom's Guide IN THE NEWS Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney – BBC News Microsoft acquires GitHub Microsoft Microsoft Blog WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS WWDC Video downloader Nemo's Hardware Store (xx:xx) As usual during WWDC everyone was too distracted to send Nemo anything – so no store this week. 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Recorded 3rd June 2018 Bad day to be recording a podcast really with WWDC being tomorrow... I don't want to talk about it too much as by the time this is posted it will all be over. However as the elephant in the room we had to at least mention it! Meanwhile Guy Serle (@Macparrot) and Roger Harmon (@gofortech) and I dug up a few other stories to mull over. Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the malarkey! Essential Apple Recommended Services: 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. Sudo – Get up to 9 free “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. ProtonMail – End to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Fake Name Generator – So much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. On this week's show: ROGER HARMON On Twitter as @gofortech Contributor and reviewer on MyMac.com Tucson MUG GUY SERLE On Twitter as @Macparrot Co-host of the MyMac show Mac to the Future and Guy's Daily Drive on YouTube APPLE Apple released iOS 11.4 and 10.13.4 – Mac Stories and a day later betas for 11.4.1 and 10.13.5 It's time for Apple's next act of courage: Kill the MacBook keyboard – Mashable Microsoft and Apple helped build new braille display standard – Engadget Apple's Star project could be an ARM-based touchscreen hybrid with LTE – 9to5 Mac Apple plans to unlock more NFC abilities for four generations of iPhone – Alphr Dark mode for macOS 10.14 and iOS 12? – BGR TECHNOLOGY Instapaper is temporarily unavailable for users in Europe – The Verge “While it continues to make changes to ensure it's compliant with the GDPR” - they had at least 2 years notice... and talking of GDPR Calm, the meditation app, has a GDPR reading for you to fall asleep to – iNews Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight How 5G is going to make smartphones ugly again – BGR Google's new machine-learning tools for its mail service can save you time and typos – as long as you are comfortable sharing your thoughts with the software – NY Times SECURITY Full Cisco report on FBI reset your router story – Talos Intelligence JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Anchor - The easiest way to start a podcast see also Spreaker, Opinion, Ferrite... Spreaker Studio Mac or iOS General Magic documentary details Apple spinoff that almost changed world – Cult of Mac WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Cheap cables from Puridea – “Six months free return and refund service, 12-month warranty and friendly customer service.” Pack of 5x 1 metre – £6.99 UK Pack of 3x 1m and 3x 7in – £4.99 UK Nemo's Hardware Store It was Nemo's wife's birthday this week and he's been off enjoying holiday time with her - so no store this week. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: EssentialApple.com / Pinecast / Twitter / Facebook / Google Plus / Slack Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Our first run at Real-Time Overview, a Drunken UX Podcast segment that will run between normal episodes of the podcast to draw attention to current events, articles, and releases relevant to web developers and designers....

Og således sluttede det første år med work.flow. Jeg har indrømmet ikke været igang et helt kalenderår, men tænker alligevel på 2017 som den første sæson. Jeg har været enormt taknemmelig for at så mange har sagt ja til at være med, og selvfølgelig for at mange flere lytter med end jeg turde håbe på - og så er jeg stadig bare virkeligt glad for at lave work.flow, og hygger mig gevaldigt. I denne årets sidste episode af work.flow har jeg valgt at hive mig selv i studiet for at fortælle lidt om hvordan jeg laver podcasten - og for at se en lille smule frem mod 2018. Det bliver en kort omgang, men forhåbentlig kan andre podcastere - eller folk som står på vippen til selv at gå igang - finde inspiration og lidt tips til apps og grej og så videre. Links Mindnode - mindmap-app Bear - noteapp plus det løse Instapaper til læs-senere-artikler og research Pinboard til bogmærker Spark email-app til iOS og macOS WeekCal til iOS coSounds - studie på Vesterbrogade Sennheiser e935 - vokalmikrofon Electro Voice 635N/D-B - min nye reportagemikrofon Shure SM7B - min Darth Vader studiemikrofon Zoom H5 - digital optager med to XLR-indgange, der også kan bruges som mini-mixer på computer IRig Pre HD - så jeg kan sætte mikrofon til min iPad eller iPhone Hindenburg - fantastisk redigeringssoftware Byword - minimalistisk tekstbehandling Fireside - podcasthosting Tweetbot - Twitter-app Hootsuite - sociale medie-værktøj for powerbrugere iTunes Connect stats (hvis du allerede har en podcast) 10er crowdfunding Overcast podcast-app

Jeg lytter massevis af podcasts. Jeg tror jeg har abonnement på over 50 af slagsen, selvom det indrømmet ikke er allesammen jeg får lyttet hver gang - og der er sikkert også nogle, der holder pause uden at jeg egentlig har opdaget det… I kraft af mit arbejde har jeg naturligt nok lyttet en masse teknologi-programmer, og da jeg tænker at der sikker er nogle af dem der lytter work.flow som også er interesserede i teknologi, så kommer her mine for tiden techpodcast-favoritter… De tre tips ATP - Accidental Tech Podcast Supernørdetshow især om Apple-ting - med Marco Arment (app-udvikler - tidligere Tumblr og Instapaper), Casey Liss (softwareudvikler), og John Siracusa (softwareudvikler, übernørd, tidligere Mac OS-anmelder for Ars Technica). a16z Andreessen Horowitz smider massevis af penge efter tech-startups, men har også fundet tid til at lave en podcast med skiftende værter og formater. Det handler om emner som cybersikkerhed, tech-lobbyister, modernisering af offentlige it-tjenester og selvfølgelig en masse om startups og it-entreprenører… DTNS - Daily Tech News Show Tom Merritts daglige tech-nyheder med rimeligt faste gæster/medværter. Tom er tidligere kendt fra Buzz Out Loud og TWIT-netværket, og får i øvrigt crowdfundet programmet via Patreon. Bonus-tips MPU - Mac Power Users Katie Floyd og David Sparks dykker ned i Apple-tech, både Mac og iDimser, typisk med et tema som fx email-apps eller backups, eller de har en gæst der fortæller om sine workflows (lyder det bekendt?) Rocket Brianna Wu, Simone de Rochefort, Christina Warren har hvad de kalder accelerated geek conversation om tech, comics, film, spil and bøger, typisk med et fokus på ugens nyheder fra tech-land som udgangspunkt. Wired UK Podcast fra WIRED Magazines UK-afdeling, med James Temperton som vært. Nye episoder hver fredag, med både teknologi og videnskabsnyheder fra magasin og website.

Denne gang er jeg på besøg hos Kim Elmose, der er digital udviklingsredaktør i Ingeniørforeningen, IDA. Interviewet foregår i IDAs lille tv-studie, hvor lyset pludselig gik ud - men vi fortsatte ufortrødent! Udover den tekniske drift og udvikling af ida.dk rådgiver Kim om digital kommunikation og underviser i brug af sociale medier som Twitter og Facebook. Men en af Kims største interesser er spørgsmålet om databeskyttelse og privatliv, især med fokus på hvad vi gør som ganske almindelige brugere. Så udover at fortælle om sit daglige arbejde kommer Kim også med gode råd til apps og tjenester som gør det forholdsvis nemt at minimere hvor meget firmaer og andre nysgerrige kan kigge med… Links Kim ordner support for IDAs brugere med Zendesk og laver intern projektstyring med Trello. Microsofts OneNote er blevet omdrejningspunktet for Kims opgave-styring, noter på opgaver og så videre.
 Skal Kim rådgive nogen i huset med at bygge en ny side eller undersite – afdækker han deres behov ud fra Business Model Canvas. Privatlivsting som vi taler om i denne episode 
Privatliv.nu er Kims con amore projekt, hvor han skriver om især apps og tjenester til privatlivsbeskyttelse. Han skriver også på bloggen Online Minds sammen med en ven, Lars K. Jensen, der er digital projektleder på Ekstrabladet.dk. Signal er en velrenommeret krypteret beskedtjeneste.
Wire kan været et fint alternativ - smooth og lækker med privatliv for øje. Til privat mail er Kim glad for ProtonMail, fordi den har to faktor login, og mulighed for at sende passwordsbeskyttede mails til ikke-ProtonMail-brugere. Søgning Startpage.com der har European Privacy Seal, eller i stigende grad også den dansk-baserede søgemaskine, FindX, der lige er kommet i offentligt beta. Den primære browser er Firefox – udstyret med diverse privacy-apps – udover de sikkerheds-features, som browseren er født med. Men Kim bruger også jævnligt Tor-browseren – af solidaritetshensyn overfor de, der virkeligt har brug for at bruge Tor, hvis de skjuler sig for regimers overvågning.

Browserboblere: Brave fra en af stifterne af Mozilla, og Cliqz: ny tysk baseret privacy-browser til de fleste platforme. Disconnect Me er den foretrukne cookie- og adblocker til Firefox. Ellers er der også Privacy Badger: cookie- og adblocker fra Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF.org.
 Øvrige privatlivs-tips fra Kim Passwordmanageren LastPass tilbyder at gemme password, generere nye og lange passwords. Har en meget fin mobilapp og fungerer fint med tilføjelser i browser.
 SpiderOak One backupper indhold i krypteret form fra din computer, og kan også dele dokumenter ligesom fx Dropbox. Det ER vigtigt med VPN – også på mobilerne – for at beskytte sin trafik. Og der er mange muligheder, fx Orbot på Android eller OperaVPN – ny app fra Norge. De tre tips - og en lille bonus: Prøv at sigte mod Zero Mail indboks. Hver gang du får en mail – beslut hvad der skal ske med den! Screencast-værktøj Snagit kan fx tage screendumps eller lave små videoer til at sende til udviklere, brugere der har spørgsmål til vores cms'er eller andet. Man kan tegne og skrive på fotos og videoer med yderligere instruktioner. 
 Instapaper kan bruges til at gemme artikler fra nettet til senere (offline-)læsning i ro og mag. Til bogmærker bruger Kim Pinboard. 


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