If dogs are human’s best friend, I dare to say Moleskines are artists’ and designers’ best friend. Rumors says Picasso , Matisse , and Hemingway were using their Moleskine to sketch. It was select as the best designer’s sketchbook in LifeHacker . I bet many of you guys are having one in your pocket. Here in this post, TFS will discover how to customize the moleskine ......
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These are things I ran across recently on the Internet and thought were interesting, remarkable, or stood out in some way to me. Metafilter's Taglines (from MetaTalk) A scrape of the MetaTalk comments database to itemize the various "Metafilter: [Odd Motto]" comments. (tags: none) Metafilter's Taglines A scrape of the Metafilter database to it......
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Following my earlier post on using numbered folders to keep track of your projects , I received a couple emails from readers wondering what software I use to implement the system. As a quick recap, the idea was that you create a single projects folder and in that directory, every new project goes into its own sequentially numbered folder. Then – and here’s the key bit – you use ......
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Hello! I took a little detour the other day with my “first” 100th post, but now I’d like to share the post I had originally planned to officially commemorate the 100th post of One Bag Nation. First, my heartfelt thanks to my small but loyal band of readers and commenters; you keep me going! Some of you have visited consistently, right from the start, and I’d like to men......
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I just wanted to pop in out of lecture mode (sigh) and give a brief sort of “meta report,” of what I’m working on, where I am in life, and what my plans are for the blog are in the next little bit. First off, as next Monday is a national holiday (whew) and I’m going to be out of town doing family stuff for the long weekend, I’m not going to have a ......
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Reader/Listener Greg wrote in a while ago and pointed a really great CLI tool for managing your calendar. From Roaring Penquin : Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features: * A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays. * Plain-text, PostScript and HTML output. * Timed reminders and pop-up......
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Last week I got a red Pelican 1060 Micro Case to carry my breakable and water-sensitive stuff in a saddlebag while I bike back and forth to work. For years I’ve just been wrapping my phone, wallet, USB thumb drive, etc in a plastic bag. This has worked, but when this spring’s stiff breezes blew my bike over a few times̵ 2;fortunat ely with the saddlebags empty—I began to thin......
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[photo courtesy of Flickr , since I can’t find my camera USB cable for love nor money, so looks like I’ll need to buy a bloody new one….and in any case my lists and notes aren’t nearly that neat!] Iain’s posted about his experience of Mental Detox Week , uploading his paper notes to his blog to spend as little time as possible in front of the screen. Which got......
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Getting things done , the methodology of organizing your to-do’s, is an interesting system. It’s advocated by many different people and used by even more people. A lot of different developers and managers advocate the system because it deals with the question of “stuffâ€�. Without getting into the tinier details of it, the system advocates organizing your to-do list by projec......
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Just noticed that soon-to-be-authors Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff have a snazzy new look on their shared blog: Groundswell . I’m wondering if "shared" blogs might not be what’s coming in 2009 as more of the bloggerati blog less and......
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A zen slap is “a moment of unexpected enlightenment when something becomes blindingly and undeniably obvious to you. It often brings a feeling of elation, relief, and discovery, even as you laugh at yourself for missing the obviousness all along.” Well, I just had a social media zen slap . Earlier this morning, I tweeted a question : I didn’t get any response via......
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Yesterday I wrote about my sketches and thoughts I create in my Moleskine notebooks. Idea Sandbox reader John, asked how I organize what’s in my Moleskine notebooks. I started to write and had more than a few comments... so I thought I’d make a post about it... A few things I do with my Moleskine... Tasks and Actions Action Items - I put a square/checkbox next to action ......
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Meet Sandy , your new assistant. She efficiently manages your appointments, reminders, daily scheduling and more. She’s always on email, of course, but she’s also into Web 2.0 apps like Twitter and Jott, and likes to text as well. Even though English isn’t Sandy’s first language, she understands it very well. Best of all, she works for free. One more thing: Sandy isnR......
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Many of us are trying to squeeze too much into each day. We overload ourselves with responsibilities, commitments and expectations which we frantically try to meet. At any given time we don’t have a clear idea of what all this stuff is, nor do we know if we have enough time to actually do it all. But we just keep going in the hope that somehow we will reach an ‘end’. But we won......
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It seems that everyday I’m finding new and interesting applications aimed at creative writers. Up until about two years ago, this was not the case. In fact, what you might have typically found online was a bevy of bloated word-processors that attempted in many ways to mimic MS Word and Lotus Notes in some fashion — each unsuccessfully executed in my opinion. For the most part, niche ......
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My pal Gordon brought his new Hipster PDA on our trek to the Apple store this weekend. I’ve been hearing about it, but it’s the first time I’ve seen one. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the Hipster PDA is a product of Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders Site. His directions on getting yours: Building your first Hipster PDA 1. Get a bunch of 3″x5 ̸..... .
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I’ve been looking into GTD and other related productivity theories of late; they appeal to the crunchy-pr ocess-orie nted geek in me. There’s been a lot of GTD-related talk in the sections of the blogosphere I find most appealing, too, which is where I stumbled across it in the first place. I’m not entirely sure, yet, what links the two, but: the bloggers talking about GTD al......
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