Collaborate Disseminate
A few weeks back I wrote about some experimentation I was doing with my smartphone and iPad home screens. Since then, I enabled the Screen Time feature in iOS and was curious to see whether my ideas about my actual daily usage matched what I was litera… Continue reading PT, Phone Home, This Time with Data (Premium)
I may be a little too obsessed when it comes to efficiency. But I configure my PCs, tablets, and smartphones uniquely and consistently, with each optimized for the apps I use most often. Well, that’s the goal. But my phone’s home screen doesn’t really … Continue reading PT, Phone Home (Premium)
I thought I was done with the YouTube drama, but as is so often the case, I made a critical error. So once more unto the breach. Or something.
A quick recap.
Thanks to the YouTube support issue I’m sure everyone has already heard about too much, I requ… Continue reading Online Accounts 2025: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat (Premium)
Almost exactly 20 years ago, I approached my wife with a request. I needed to spend about $2000 on two 1 TB LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme external hard drives so that we could back up all our personal and work-related data, replicate it, and keep one of th… Continue reading Online Accounts 2025: First Steps (Premium)
Notion has emerged as one of the best apps I use every day. Naturally, I’ve intensified my efforts to replace it with something else.
OK, I’m kidding. Mostly.
Surveying the software and services I use each day, Notion is the rare example of a no-braine… Continue reading There’s Nothing Wrong with Notion, So I’m Messing with It (Premium)
We’re in Mexico for what could be about three months, we’ll see. But it’s a new year and a good time to take stock: Here or abroad, I tend to use the same tools each day to get work done.
It’s been a while. I do often publish What I Use posts tied to t… Continue reading What I Use: January 2025 (Premium)
Well, it’s been an interesting week. It was just days ago, but I’m already having trouble remembering the history of Workspace, Microsoft 365, and AI.
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I switched to Typora this past year, in part because iA Writer for Windows is a pale imitation of the Mac version. But that’s about to change.
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2024 was another year of great change, driven in part by the sudden viability and desirability of Windows 11 on Arm. But it’s not just that: After an incredibly disruptive 2023, I surprised myself by making a similar number of changes to the apps, serv… Continue reading My New Apps, Services, and Games of 2024 (Premium)
Like many, my life is split between the pre- and post-pandemic years, and that terrible year that everything changed forever. Among the changes is how we spend our time outside the United States. In the pre-pandemic years, my wife and I spent at least … Continue reading What I Use: Berlin 2024 (Premium)