An online notebook
I’ve just come across this post from Owen Barder, from back in 2012, providing his tips on managing email a bit more effectively. Owen has a triage system for email which is based on four D’s: Deal with it – If I can deal with an email in less than four or five minutes, I … Keep reading
Am currently reading, and very much enjoying Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator. It’s basically lots of interviews with founders of companies that were once startups about what life was like in the early days. The book’s blurb sells it well: Founders at Work is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies … Keep reading
I like to use plain text when I can. Plain text is just text without any formatting, which you edit with an app called a text editor, like Notepad on Windows or TextWrangler on a Mac. It’s pretty much a universal format – it can be opened and edited on pretty much any system or … Keep reading
Digital tools provide great ways to collaborate online. Whether working with a smallish team to co-create a document, or engaging the wisdom of the crowd to build a list of ideas, the net allows us to work with people at a previously impossible scale. But how to do so effectively? There’s nothing more depressing than … Keep reading
I probably think about this sort of thing far more than I should – after all, doesn’t everyone just use Word? – but I like playing with different tools for writing. After all, for me, typing words into a computer makes up probably 75% of my job. That’s a lot of typing and so it’s … Keep reading