Category: Productivity
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I Started Time Blocking With Minimal Effort
I know I’ve been updating a little less often than usual lately, and that’s in part because of how life has been busier than ever for me. It’s gotten to the point where even my days off feel like a constant rush of work to get more and more done off a never-ending list of…
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Notebook Nomenclature: Naming and Archiving Journals
Essentially, this was spurred just a few days back when I went through my closet and found a box of all my old notebooks. I was writing down ideas and tracking habits in them well before I was ever aware the bullet journal was really a “thing.” It was only early 2022 when I actually…
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How (and Why) I Carry a Pocket Notebook WITH My Bullet Journal
Ever since I start to bullet journal regularly with an A5-sized (read: the “standard” size) notebook for a bullet journal, I had switched away from pocket-sized notebooks I used to use for my to-dos and other reminders. As anyone can guess, the major difference between my pre and post-bullet journal notebooks includes how much easier…
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Make YouTube Less Annoying
Like many others, I like YouTube. I recall when the site was brand new in the 2000s and unlike anything we had ever seen before. You could easily upload videos to the site and watch videos from other uploaders from all over the world. I know it seems so commonplace now, but it really was…
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Pretty, Powerful, Productive: My Obsidian Power User Setup
Personal Knowledge Management (or PKM) is such a useful and vital skill in today’s modern world, and I’m certainly not the first person to centralize the things I do want to track in one convenient, easy-to-navigate place. Of course, I don’t happen to focus everything into the second brain I’ve created (that’s why I also…
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Let’s Be Realistic About “Free Money” Apps
A QUICK ASIDE: Just to keep full transparency, I won’t include any affiliate links or sweeping endorsements here. This whole thing is me just trying to detail my view and experience with these sorts of apps. As a result, I get to be as honest and critical as I like. I found myself using an…
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Betterbird and Mailspring: A Comparison of Email Clients for Linux
UPDATED on July 22nd, 2024. Scroll down to read more information on how I eventually switched full-time to Betterbird. I talked a short while back about how I recently adopted Betterbird as my email client after having used Thunderbird on my old Arch Linux system. To put a long story short, I decided to search…
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Use What You Already Have to Get a “Dumbphone”
As I discussed in a few previous posts, I’ve made attempts to simplify my life before starting with my smartphone. Humorously, I remember being a younger Mr. Hyde around 2010 when Android phones were really starting to pick up traction, when the idea of digital convergence was truly exciting. The future looked so bright to…
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Switching from Thunderbird to Betterbird
I’m still largely getting small things back together from my previous installation of Arch Linux. That includes how I had Thunderbird set up with all of my email accounts. However, I decided on a whim, instead of merely typing in sudo pacman -S thunderbird and calling it a day, I decided to search for anything…
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Switching to a “Dumbphone”: Challenge Failed
This is a humbling post to make, but as stated in the title: I failed to make the successful switch to a simpler phone. I’ve already spent a week using this phone, the Xiaomi Qin F22 Pro. I previously discussed my attempt to make the full switch a short while back, so I’ll go ahead…
