Meeting prep with Freeplane and OmniFocus
TLDR; After having to switch to Freeplane after a Mac font upgrade I discovered a useful feature where you can ‘deep link’ to a specific node. This is a great…
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TLDR; After having to switch to Freeplane after a Mac font upgrade I discovered a useful feature where you can ‘deep link’ to a specific node. This is a great…
TLDR; you can get 60% off a Listenable Subscription until May 10th, when you use this link and a coupon code of ‘TEACHER60’. Longer version So during lockdown last year,…
Overview I signed up to a webinar by TodoIst as the subject of ‘Eating the Frog’ interested me. As a GTD zealot, I was keen on learning more about other…
Setting up your day to be productive is the sort of thing that should be straightforward, but isn’t always. I think there are 3 key ingredients to be aware of.…
A useful combo for using the IntelliJ Sequence Diagram plugin to generate sequence diagrams and then handing off to an online editor. Use the right tools at the right time…
Like many of us, I’ve been working from home extensively these last few months. We’ve been using Microsoft Teams to facilitate our daily stand up meetings until we’re safe to…
The last few weeks I haven’t been as as active as I’d like on this blog due to an interesting project I’ve been undertaking on developer productivity systems. I’ve published…
Recently I was using AWS LocalStack (which uses Python and Docker) to run various tests against DynamoDB. I was running into behaviour that seemed different from the ‘true’ AWS services,…
Most recently I have found my role almost being one of a mini-project manager. I’m helping out with an uplift of some assets into Docker containers at work, pretty standard…
I just finished reading an excellent article on mental models here. There are so many models that we could look into, but the article here gives 4 as a taster.…