As a college student in the 90’s I was relieved to get a computer. When I finished college all of my documents fit on about three floppy disks. I think school today requires a bit more knowledge management and I can’t recommend the Devontech products enough. Get 40% off during their back-to-school sale.
There’s a lot of software you may still need but DEVONthink is the glue that keeps all of my information organized and easily found.
25% off some of the best Mac software you can find, is not too shabby. If you’ve been considering DEVONthink Pro Office, this is a pretty significant discount. It’s like the writer’s dream bundle with Scrivener, Aeon Timeline and even Take Control books at 25% off. Use the code SUMMERFEST2015 to get the discount. This is not a sponsored post. I just really like these things.
I don't understand the inner workings of iCloud or PhotoStream. What I do understand is that every photo from Aperture (and maybe iPhoto) that is pending sync with PhotoStream is duplicated to a folder in the User Library directory. That means if I, say accidentally, mark 3000 photos for sync to PhotoStream, then I waste 83GB of a 250GB SSD.
Of course, this happened on the same day that John Siracusa talked at length about the evils of filling up a boot volume.
I'm really having fun with the new Hazel 3. Not only does it have a number of new rules and actions, it's performance is now good enough to work on large collections of files.
Here's a file archive rule I made that scans all files and folder in my Dropbox account. When I set a file or folder label color to yellow (my archive label) Hazel automatically moves it to my deep freeze archive on my networked Drobo.
Of course, I was going to post about the NVAlt 2.2 Beta. As I said on the Twitters, this free application is the brains of a huge amount of what I do. It is the glue that holds my cardboard fort together.
At the risk of alienating Zachary, Brett and Elastic Threads, I have one request. Please make this a paid product. Please charge for it to ensure its continued growth and support.
An in-depth look at the pathetic state of banking data exchange. Ok, the post is great and there's some nice tricks in it. It's just a shame that so much hacking is required to do banking. It's my understanding that the least likely way to have your account compromised is by someone directly hacking access through the bank portal. It's more likely to come from insecure credit card storage by a Sony service.
I typically shy away from standard project management tools and mantras. I think most of it is a bunch of marketing gimmicks to sell software and seminars. However, I do get significant value from a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure). A WBS is kind of like a todo list for a large project. A WBS can be as simple as a list of tasks or it can include assignments, timelines, predecessor task assignments, etc.
There are plenty of good reasons to be eagerly awaiting a stable release of Textmate 2 but there are also equally valid reasons to avoid it. I’ve used both but I’ve never been an expert at either. I’ve used them for small personal projects but nothing that would exercise all of the features. For web development, I use Coda, for python scripts, I use BBEdit and now CodeRunner. Most of my writing for this site is done between Simplenote, NVAlt and MultiMarkdown Composer.
I've been researching some BBEdit scripts and I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. A logical source to review is Daringfireball. It was fun looking over the old articles and seeing how BBEdit evolved and how much Gruber contributed.
Here's a canned Google search for anyone that's interested:
Daringfireball
The Escapers (makers of Flux, Stuf and more) have an interesting new task management service called Instruktion. Or maybe it's called "New York Minute", it's not clear to me. It is cross platform and the apps are free. It requires a $20/year membership which sounds like a good price.
It looks very nice on all of the application platforms and works offline too. I'm an OmniFocus user but I'll keep an eye on how this evolves.
