As part of my paperless office project, I purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Mobile Document Scanner a few weeks ago. Aside from the fact it had a rating of 4.5/5.0 stars on Amazon, the scanner is very heavily recommended in productivity forums for integration with Evernote. To be fair, Evernote also makes a really slick…
After Jen and I took up running, our first Gate River Run, which serves as the U.S. 15k Championship, was in 2007. I had barely started running at that point (Jen had recently completed her first half-marathon with Team In Training) and I recall smoking a cigarette in the parking lot before we walked to the…
We’re pretty excited about our coming addition to the family. We’re expecting in early September and despite having no idea what we’re doing here, we are certainly having fun learning!
I was reading an article the other day on Lifehacker that showcased how to use Apple Reminders for GTD. The idea was that it’s so deeply embedded in iOS and OS X, that users of those platforms should find it beneficial to use it for GTD-based task management. This raised another question in my mind,…
I was reading an article yesterday about a dog in Japan named Hachikō that was famous for his loyalty to his master for long after the master’s death. When we lost Clancy in April of 2013, I became convinced that we will never own another dog with which I would be as close as I was…
Overview It took some time for me to rule out Toodledo. In all honesty, I think it’s one of the more GTD-oriented and powerful solutions available. I do want to call special attention to the fact that this application handles Next Actions in a manner consistent with the way GTD tasks should flow. This has…
I was reading an article recently on Lifehacker about Mac keyboard shortcuts that boost productivity and I got to thinking about my migration from a Windows laptop to the MacBook Pro a year or so earlier. I’m one of those nerds who knows all sorts of obscure Windows application shortcuts and I realized at some…
As a Solution Architect who has on more than one occasional suffered through the pain of working with a company’s Legal department to draft legal disclaimers for use on the web, I’m amazed (and frustrated) by organizations who take the time to post but then ignore their own Terms & Conditions or Privacy Policy. Not…
I started my account with Dreamhost eight years ago in February of 2006. Changing hosts was much simpler then, as I had a single HTML-based web site. Today it means moving nearly two dozen web sites, most of which are powered by backend databases. Complicating things further, many of them are web sites on which…
I work from home frequently and I love having a dedicated office in our home. I’ve often thought one of the primary criteria next time we shop for a house will be whether it has an extra room sufficient for a dedicated office. In the meanwhile, Jen and I share a spare room for our…