Simplicity

The Race to Nowhere

Urges to be productive can be powerful. The urge to do something can be overwhelming. It’s always a race to move from one task to the next. One project to the next. Something always needs doing, and you’re the one that needs to do it. All of this is true. No matter how much you [...]

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Death of Email

Email. Nerds love to talk about it. They talk about how much they get, how much time they spend doing it, how they wish they could break free of it. Then you have some people who decide email isn’t for them. In particular, there’s a company called Atos Origin that is working on a plan [...]

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Less Is Perfect

Liam Cassidy writes about why he returned to Things after switching to Omnifocus: Let me be fair; OmniFocus is a wonderful tool. But I always felt like I was neglecting some awesome functionality that could make me super-productive. I suffered a kind of productivity anxiety with OmniFocus: a nagging worry that I wasn’t making the [...]

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Doctors Orders

Imagine you’re at the doctor’s office, and he tells you that your blood pressure is out of control. He can prescribe some medicine, but making changes to your daily life is really the only way to get it back in line. Specifically, you’ll need to reduce your stress level drastically or die. With this sort [...]

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MacSparky – The Joy of Text

There’s something to be said for the use of plain text files. Text is simple. Text files are easy to read on any computer running any operating system and don’t require any proprietary word processor to interpret. Even more important, text files can be read by humans. Keeping your writings in text makes them digitally [...]

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What Would You Give for More Time?

Sitting on the couch relaxing with my wife recently, I made a comment that I often make: “What I would give for more time…” Only this time I stopped, realizing the absurdity of what I was saying. Thinking out loud, I took it further. “That’s a stupid thing to say. There’s nothing I have to [...]

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