Tag: Apps

• January 5, 2022

  Todoist Karma Enlightenment

  Almost three years ago, I moved to Todoist to man­age my todos and projects. Today I am thrilled to receive the fol­low­ing email from Todoist. I only vague­ly know about the Todoist Kar­ma fea­ture. I haven’t tak­en time to explore the Kar­ma fea­ture as it is relat­ed to stats and is tan­gen­tial to how I use Todoist, but I am… Read more

• September 16, 2021

  A few cool Mac apps I use

  It’s been a few years since I wrote about the Itsy­cal cal­en­dar app that I use on my Mac. It still is the default time and cal­en­dar app on my Mac’s menu bar. Here are a few more cool Mac apps that I use and love. Clocker Clock­er dis­plays time from addi­tion­al time zones on Mac’s menu bar or as… Read more

• March 4, 2019

  Twitter is changing my timeline preferences

  Recent­ly I wrote about how I reduced the noise on my Twit­ter time­line by chang­ing the default time­line pref­er­ence from top tweets to the lat­est tweets. Since then I noticed that from time to time my time­line pref­er­ence is falling back to top tweets with­out my inter­ven­tion. But I was­n’t total­ly sure because I did not think Twit­ter may be… 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 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

• July 15, 2017

  Itsycal

  I found this list of 25 free macOS apps every Mac user should have, which I found on my twit­ter feed, inter­est­ing. I already use some apps like Wun­derlist, Slack and VLC men­tioned in that list. But one app that I felt I could use is Itsy­cal. It shows the cal­en­dar from the menu bar; some­thing I wish the… 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

• May 5, 2017

  Apps and attention

  I start­ed read­ing Rap­ti­tude from last year and it quick­ly became one of my favorite blogs. The recent post, How Bil­lion­aires Stole My Mind, opened up my mind to how social media com­pa­nies com­pete for our atten­tion first thing in the morn­ing and suc­ceed in dis­tract­ing us. After read­ing this post, I also delet­ed Tweet­bot app… Read more