You’d have to have been hiding under a rock not to have been swept up in the WWDC Keynote analysis, but although rocks were in short supply I did find myself in a communications blackspot this week as I spent a few days doing conservation work in a National Trust site. An enforced communications blackout [...]
Weekly Review: iOS and all that jazz, plus a productivity experiment from @psychowith6
A new kind of Alpha
Hi, I’m Darren. Some of you may know my writing from my personal blog, Brain Cutlery. Today though I want to talk to you about the exciting new plans that are afoot here at Alpha Efficiency. For several years Alpha Efficiency has been Bojan’s brainchild – a mirror to hold up and reflect his thoughts, [...]
Weekly Review – Getting ready for the trip of a lifetime… And all the cool stuff accumulated over the week
Been Burnt by Outsourcing? 5 Tips to Get Started Again
This is a guest post by Nick Loper If you’ve been outsourcing for any length of time, odds are good you’ve been burnt once or twice by a flaky freelancer or an over-promising programmer. These experiences, while frustrating and sometimes costly, are part of the ongoing learning experience we all go through in our outsourcing [...]
Weekly Review – Picking The Right Task Manager and Observing Your Brain On The Digital
How encounter with Cairo provoked fear and challenged me to ultimately distort my world view.
Total Evernote Automation with IFTTT and Hazel
Huge hidden costs of App switching
The more we use some apps, the better they get. That is the case with applications like Evernote and Pocket. We improve muscle memory related to those applications. The more data we have in them, the more value they provide us. They are locking us in. The cost of proprietary formats Before you make a [...]
Thoughts on Evernote Reminders and the new update
This still doesn’t transform Evernote into task manager of my choice. The simple reason is that it lacks the recurring option that I still have in Omnifocus. Perhaps I am spoiled when it comes down to task management, but I still don’t feel ready to make this transition and go “Evernote All-in”. Also I don’t [...]

