Category: productivity

  • A Quick Update on My Obsidian Automation Scripts

    10 Mar 2021 » 1 min read about productivity

    I’ve had a number of people reach out recently to inquire about my Obsidian automation scripts. I will get them posted to Github in the relatively nearly future. In their current state, they are not ready for public consumption. There are lots of hard-coded paths, to say nothing of the code is fairly ugly. I’ve…

  • Manifesto 43: Improving My Quantified Self

    31 Mar 2015 » 2 min read about Personal & Family, productivity

    [W]hen it comes to quantified self, one question I frequently hear is “how can this data really help me”? It is a good question, especially since there are huge volumes of data about ourselves available, and it may not be obvious how to put it to use. I have used quantified self data to improve…

  • 20 Apps and Services that Made Me More Productive in 2014

    04 Jan 2015 » 12 min read about productivity

    [I] am often asked about the apps and services I use to get my work done. Last February I listed many of those apps and services in the How I Work interview I did with Lifehacker. With 2014 now in the books, I put together a list of the apps and services that I felt…

  • My Google Docs Writing Tracker Can Now Be Used with Text-Based Files

    31 Oct 2014 » 2 min read about productivity, Writing & Publishing

    [I] pushed an update this afternoon to my Google Docs Writing Tracker that allows text-based files to be used with the system. For those who aren’t familiar: my Google Docs Writing Trackers is a system I created that automates the process of tracking my writing word counts and time spent each day, stores the data…

  • 3 Productivity Tips from Winston Churchill

    10 Oct 2014 » 4 min read about productivity

    [I] am often astonished by how little technology can really help make me more productive. More often than not, it adds distractions. Take word processors, for example. I’ve argued before that a word processor for writers should do 3 things really well. When word processors don’t do these things, I have to spend less time…