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Fullscreen as a productivity booster

Usually when I write a blog post on a computer I do so in a text editor. I prefer software like OmmWriter, WriteRoom and Scrivener, rather than full-fledged word processors like Pages, OpenOffice or Word. In fact, I could go on about why that last one is a trojan from Hell, but that’s a completely different matter.

OmmWriter (my most recent favorite when it comes to text composing) shares one thing with WriteRoom and Scrivener: It has a fullscreen mode. It also does one thing better than the other two, and that’s automatically shutting off Growl, the notification service most diehard Mac users find indispensable for interruptions during the day. Smart thinking there. Continued →

Getting productive with change of scenery

I’ve been told I’m crazy, in the “you’re stupid doing all that” way. You see I’m not only addicted to words, I’m also addicted to projects. I love firing up something new, I get ideas and jot them down, revisit and suddenly I find myself building something.

You might say I’m a doer.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t hit walls, getting bogged down with what is commonly referred to as writer’s block (I’ll save my thoughts on that for another post), and just get the feeling that I don’t want to do what’s necessary. A ton of projects will do that to you, it’s a mental battle.

A change of scenery will help. I’ve been meaning to get Notes Blog ready for the public beta for two weeks, but I just haven’t been able to pull myself together to actually do it.

Today I am. In five minutes time I’ll have a Talisker single malt by my side and I’ll be watching the 17″ Macbook Pro fire up, leaving the Air for the first time in a long time. The change of scenery is my tool – which Macbook I’m working on – this time around.

But it helps. Change is good.

Maybe this update to Evernote is what is needed to get me to give it another go?

In case you’re not following @tdhedengren on Twitter, I’d like to let you know that I’ll be tweeting daily productivity tips for a while. In fact, I have already started.

Two hours online per day – will that do?

I’m in France at the moment, and apparently they don’t know how to make a decent city wide wifi network work in Chamonix. Sad really, because I like being online and it messes up my work. Luckily I’ve solved it for the time being at least, although it is at some expense, both monetary and work-wise.

I’ll be online two (yes, that’s 2) hours each day starting next week. That’s it.

Or rather, it doesn’t have to be, because sometimes this thing that they call broadband here works, although never good enough to get anything done. Maybe shoot out a tweet or something, but that’s about it. That is one of the reasons to why I’ve been so quiet the last week, although I did warn you before. Continued →

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