Category: personal automation

  • Life-Logging: The Problem with Food and Mood Tracking

    25 Sep 2013 » 2 min read about personal automation

    [S]o it seems that what I call “personal analytics” or “quantified self” is also called “life-logging” out in the wild. As regular readers know, I have a kind of fascination with this. I collect quite a bit of data about my life: My activity (how much I walk, how active I am, etc.) My writing…

  • Twitter Triggers are Back on IFTTT!

    22 Aug 2013 » 1 min read about personal automation

    [I] happen to log into IFTTT yesterday evening to check out my recipes and discovered that Twitter triggers have been reinstated, presumably using Twitter’s new API. This is great news because it means no workarounds are needed to capture Tweets in Evernote. Just create a recipe using the new Twitter trigger and send the results…

  • My Google Writing Tracker Scripts Now Available on GitHub

    11 Jul 2013 » 2 min read about personal automation, Writing & Publishing

    [L]ot of people have asked if would make the code for my Google Writing Tracker scripts available. I’ve been saying “eventually” long enough. As of this morning, the core scripts are now available on GitHub. A few comments: These are unsupported scripts. I say this not because I don’t think they will work (I’ve been using…

  • Automating My Backups with CrashPlan and VaultPress

    17 May 2013 » 5 min read about personal automation

    This is the first1 in a new series of monthly posts I’ll be doing in which I describe how I am trying to automate all of the repetitive tasks in my life, in order to free up time for the creative work. A big reason I can do this type of automation is because I…