I’d like to thank Harvest for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. Harvest is an online time tracking and invoicing solution that gets it all right. Using Harvest, you can work on client projects from anywhere by starting a timer effortlessly via Mac, iPhone, web browser.…
Continue reading →TE Snippets: Foreign Thanks
I’m starting a new series where I’m going to feature some of my favorite TextExpander snippets. If you don’t know about TextExpander, shame on you. It is a fantastic application that lets you quickly type long (and short) snippets of text with just a…
Continue reading →Obsession + Voice
I’ve sent so many non-geek friends to this famous Merlin Mann/John Gruber talk that I’ve finally made a TextExpander snippet for the link.
Continue reading →Home Screen: Mike Rohde
This week’s home screen comes from my pal Mike Rohde, (Twitter) (Website), the father of Sketchnoting, founder of the Sketchnote Army, and a recent guest on the Mac Power Users. So Mike, show us your home screen. What are some of your favorite Apps?…
Continue reading →OmniFocus 2 Debut Video
Today the Omni Group released its video from the OmniFocus 2 Debut event. In it Ken Case shares his vision for his amazing company, Liz Marley shows off the product she and her team have poured their lives into, Merlin Mann is charming and…
Continue reading →Shipping It – Read & Trust
The most recent edition of Read & Trust, Shipping It, includes my essay, Two Terrifying Words. This edition includes some really great authors including Shawn Blanc, Brett Terpstra, Brett Kelly, and Adam King. ∞
Continue reading →MultiMarkdown Composer 2
I’ve made no secret of my admiration for Fletcher Penny, the renaissance physician behind MultiMarkdown. Fletcher just released version 2 of his successful MultiMarkdown Compser App for Mac. This is a substantial improvement over version 1 with upgrades to the underlying engine and most…
Continue reading →Tufte Trump
I’ve had several readers write me in response to my post Monday about the Periodic Table of Data Visualization. The emails can be easily summarized: “Shame on you. Edward Tufte’s book trumps all.” I’ve spent some time with Tufte’s book The Visual Display of…
Continue reading →Breakout Books: Paperless
Apple has started a new special area in the iBookstore to feature independent authors called Breakout Books. The New York Times explains it all. I’m thrilled to report Paperless made the cut. I know it isn’t always easy dealing with big corporations but I…
Continue reading →Task Planning (In)sanity
Not a week goes by that I don’t receive an email from some reader or listener asking about the problem of overwhelming task lists. Specifically, they explain that every day they spend far too much time dealing with an obese task list, for which…
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