Some Roam Research users use page title prefixes in order to quickly differentiate between different types of content. E.g.: “B: How To Take Smart Notes” for the book, and “A: How To Take Smart Notes” for an article about it. Roam Research has a feature built-in with similar advantages and additional features: namesspaces. Namespaces are, …
Data portability is the idea that you can bring your data “with you”; if you leave a certain SaaS or piece of software, you should be able to export your data. Many, if not most, companies now allow you to do so. There’s usually no danger for them to do so because raw data export …
A template that helps you set the 1-3 things you really want to get done today, followed by a look back at the day prompting you to look at what you did, what you learned, and what goes well. To hit all the right notes in a day can be hard. There are so many …
These days between roughly 9 AM and 5 PM this is the screen that welcomes me when I (try to) visit a social networking site. Using bookmarklets I can still post but I can’t visit, browse, read, or otherwise kill time. Why Block? Self-control is a limited resource; I need it for other things. Making …
Last week over a period of two days I unfriended most of my Facebook people. I went from 300 people I know the names of to 30 people I know. Immediate family, friends. A handful of online people I know from the pre-social web days. Easier To Share Sharing with the core is easier when …
The best way to keep your data clean & useful is to regularly do some easy tending and pruning. WHY WOULD I LOOK AT OLDER NOTES? Face it, when you started using Evernote you weren’t sure what to put in. Or you followed the idea of "dump everything in it" to the letter and now …
Think of a SmartBook as a Windows Mobile PocketPC with a larger screen and a near-normal sized keyboard.
Information overload is nonsense.
Mornings are pretty cool. I like to see the sun hesitantly flow into the day. I like the feeling of being “there†sooner than anybody else. And of course of getting so much done before the rest of the world starts their day.
The exposure of ourselves online will lead to a second wave of social networking accounts under assumed names; the new nicknames of old.