One of the first posts I published to this blog was a lament that I just couldn’t get notebooks to work for me. About a year ago, though, I finally found a routine that got notebooks working for me. I started off working my way through two copies of a Self Journal before borrowing some …
The picture above is a little bit of a misrepresentation, but one that serves a purpose. I use the wonderful Things 2 as my master to-do list—mostly because it lets me write down anything and everything that I would like to do at some point during my life and then assign a certain number of …
For the past year or so, I’ve been using the free version of the Alfred productivity software, and when Alfred 3 recently came out, I decided it was time to upgrade to the full version. I bought the Alfred Powerpack shortly before doing my first grading of the summer semester, and I decided that that …
I’ve experimented with time tracking ever since starting grad school, but it’s only since last May that I feel like I’ve really gotten into a routine with it. In this post, I’d like to share a couple of tips that I feel have really made this useful for me. Track whenever If you want to …
I am usually listening to something while I work, but that something changes a lot from day to day and from task to task. I’ve been meaning for a while to discuss some of what keeps my ears occupied while I put my mind to work. Here’s a selection of a few of the songs …
I’ll gladly go on record as identifying the Battle of Yavin, or what the uninitiated might refer to as the climax of the original Star Wars movie, as my vote for the most iconic science fiction battle of all time. I have a lot of reasons to love this particular scene, and you’d be surprised …