It wasn’t so long ago that I wrote about my Notational Velocity naming system. Critical to my system was the use of a colon in the note names as my Frankenstein-like naming and tagging system. On our marathon Workflows interview, Merlin talked about a…
Continue reading →Writing a Book, the Master Outline
When I announced the new book, I promised I wouldn’t torture MacSparky.com readers with the tedious (and often) boring details of writing a book. I have, however, received several e-mails asking me to share some of the workflows so I will make occasional post…
Continue reading →Service Sunday – Send Books to iTunes
Here is a nice workflow from Chris Breen to send your ePub and PDF files straight to iTunes and sync them to your iPhone. I use it all the time.
Continue reading →OmniFocus Screencast, part 1
The OmniFocus Screencast (part 1 of 3) is live. The first episode is all about capturing with OmniFocus and is 20 minutes long. You can download it from the Mac Power Users Feed. The screencast is in Apple TV format. Enjoy.
Continue reading →Scrivener in the App Store
If you write anything more than the occasional letter and haven’t tried it out already, check it out.
Continue reading →GoDaddy CEO Shoots Elephant
Really, he did. In a completely unrelated note, I switched my domains and IMAP Mail server to Hover last week and love it so far. They made it painless.
Continue reading →Edge Cases and Bugs
Elements developer Justin Williams lays it out responding to Merlin’s comments on the Mac Power Users about being an edge case. Speaking of Elements, it is my “go to” App when I sync to Scrivener. A great text writing environment.
Continue reading →The Murder of Humpy Dumpty
Today I give my annual talk at the elementary school about how the judicial system works. We conclude the talk with a mock trial concerning the untimely death of Humpty Dumpty. Was it an accident or was it murder? For legal minded nerds and…
Continue reading →Screencast Bonanza
Is it just me or does it seem lots of smart people are starting to publish screencasts? Eddie Smith did his first at Practically Efficient on Markdown and Notational Velocity. Yuvi Zalkow did an epic job of Scrivener from his point of view. I…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 47 – Workflows with Merlin 2.0
Mac Power Users Episode 46 is available for download. This one is a 2.5 hour marathon session with Merlin Mann and even better than Merlin’s first workflow episode (that was awesome). Merlin bills this recent podcast as the nerdiest interview ever and it delivers.…
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