Palimpsest: the guide to a (mostly) paperless life | 43 Folders
This is an excellent write up of why geeks both adore and hate paper and how to make a hybrid system that makes a nice balance between the two.
Author: Patrick Rhone
I know nothing for certain, but the stars make me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
SEED Conference: Sketchnotes 15-16 (via Mike Rohde) – These notes, taken by Mike Rohde at the recent SEED Conference, are some of the coolest I have ever seen. So beautiful and filled with big ideas, one feels compelled to review them. Click on the picture and take a look at the rest of the set. Truly fantastic. If I had even a quarter of this guy’s talent I would so do this.
Ubuntu Hacks
The full book online. Cool find. I am considering doing another “week with Ubuntu” soon.
Third time’s a charm « Davidville
Third time’s a charm « Davidville
It would be very anti meta if I did not mention that Tumblr, the engine that runs The Random Post, received a huge upgrade today. I must say, I am very inpressed. I hope to take advantage of many of the new features soon. Stay tuned.
strange flight attendant (via Digg ) – Why is it I never get flight attendants like this. I wanna be on this flight.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The First Rule of Holes… If You Are in One, Stop Digging.
Molly Ivins, Columnist
Hanging with Ryan from Brassing Adds Character
Been a very busy day so far and is only getting more so. Therefore, just a quick post for now…
Had the great pleasure of hanging out for a few with Ryan Roossinck from Brassing Adds Character last night. What a treat it was. We spent hours geeking out over his massive collection of Pens, my hefty collection of notebooks and our mutual eclectic music tastes. I honestly think this kid (yes, I am enough his senior to use that term) is my brother from another mother because we have so much in common it is scary.
The highlight for me though was having the chance to play with a ton of different pens, nibs and ink types. Ryan is a real serious pen freak and has many custom nibs and rare models. He is a deep abyss of knowledge when it comes to pens and their histories so it was fascinating to just sit back and listen to each story behind the pens. His writing is even smaller than mine so he is also a fan of very fine nibs making each pen absolutly drool worthy to use. By the time it was all said and done, Imanaged to fill up a nice sized page of test doodles. Good times…
If I have not said it firmly enough before, Ryan’s blog is a fantastic read and there are more great things to come. If you have any fascination at all with analog capture tools, this is a must add to your daily web reads list.
Work in Winter… A haiku
Dark in the morning
Dark at night when going home
Work in winter sucks
TaskPaper 1.0
As I have mentioned before, I have been really enjoying a new list management product called TaskPaper which has been in development for a little while now. It is officially released as of today and it is a decidedly simple but stunning effective little app. Not too hard on the wallet either.
What I love about it is that it is basically just an simple interface wrapped around a text file. The features are minimal but effective. It has everything you need and nothing it does not (which seems so rare these days). There are just tasks and projects. Items can have context tags. You can open those contexts and projects in tabs and/or narrow them down with a search. Being that it is basically just a text file, you can easily change the extension and then open it up with any text editor which makes it highly portable.
Larger projects require more levels of detail, so I have not entirely given up on OmniFocus (still in alpha but also very good). I have a couple of “Big P’s” with “Sub P’s” and “Baby P’s” that I still manage there. But for the basics, TaskPaper is just what I need right now.