Category: Tips

• January 11, 2023

  New Mac Apps

  I am lov­ing these new apps that I recent­ly got for my 14″ Mac Book Pro. Make sure to check them out if you are a Mac user too. Top Notch to hide the top notch. Pix­el­Snap to mea­sure things on the screen. The above two apps are from the mak­ers of the screen­shot mak­ing app I love:… Read more

• December 27, 2019

  What’s in your soap?

  A few weeks ago I was lis­ten­ing to an episode of the Rework pod­cast titled Lab Week. At [00:02:23] I heard this: We three live togeth­er and we just liked try­ing things out and one day we need­ed soap. We kind of looked it up and we’re like, well, how is soap made? And did a lot of… Read more

• July 31, 2019

  Turning off top Tweets on twitter.com

  The first thing I noticed with Twitter.com’s redesign is that the algo­rith­mic time­line (aka top Tweets) is set as the default. A few days ago I wast­ed some time look­ing to change this set­ting in the More > Set­tings and pri­va­cy page. I could­n’t find it there. I then googled, but still could­n’t find the answer. I googled again today… Read more

• February 25, 2019

  How to quickly add tasks to your to-do app

  The usu­al work­flow to add tasks to any to-do app involves loose­ly a few steps: Find the app on the com­put­er Open the app Find the Inbox fold­er Click the Add task but­ton Type the task name Hit Enter to add task These man­u­al steps of adding tasks are way bet­ter than not hav­ing a to-do sys­tem… Read more

• February 22, 2019

  How to declutter your Twitter timeline

  I recent­ly changed my Twit­ter iPhone app from Tweet­bot 3 to the default Twit­ter iOS app. Twit­ter for iOS app is large­ly good. But I noticed that my Twit­ter time­line both in the brows­er and iPhone app got noisy than they should be for the fifty peo­ple I fol­low. This is mak­ing me spend (not waste) more time… Read more

• February 5, 2019

  Alfred workflow for managing windows in Mac

  I am con­stant­ly look­ing for bet­ter work­flows and today I stum­bled upon this use­ful work­flow to man­age the app win­dows in Mac using Alfred. I set it up and used a few times. I loved using it! Thanks for mak­ing and shar­ing it, Paweł. I am also on the look­out for bet­ter Space Man­ag­er apps and ideas. But… Read more

• October 14, 2018

  Three foundational skills everyone needs to get ahead in life

  Over the past few years, the fol­low­ing foun­da­tion­al skills have helped me shape my career. I am not going to per­fect them any­time soon but I think I don’t have to. I believe these skills takes life-long prac­tice and I real­ly don’t want to get done with them. I think it would be sil­ly of me to think that some­day I will… Read more

• November 10, 2017

  Learned a few new mac tips from here, a link I orig­i­nal­ly found in this tweet. There is always some­thing to learn. Read more

• November 9, 2017

  The anti­dote to eight large slices of piz­za I had ear­li­er this week: five rounds of 👇 Then I topped it up with a bonus set of 70 kg dead­lifts. Read more

• May 6, 2017

  Example of a nagging app

  Only yes­ter­day I blogged about apps and their tricks to grab our pre­cious atten­tion by mak­ing us install them on our phones in the pre­tense of help­ing us. This morn­ing I want­ed to check the menu of a local cafe. I googled and clicked on one of the search results. It’s a Zoma­to link that looked like what I want­ed: I click… Read more