Weekly Review: iOS and all that jazz, plus a productivity experiment from @psychowith6

June 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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A new kind of Alpha

June 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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, [...]

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Weekly Review – Getting ready for the trip of a lifetime… And all the cool stuff accumulated over the week

June 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Some big changes are ahead for Alpha Efficiency, and I am really excited in getting the word out. But before that happens, there are still some preparations that need to be done. Lately, I’ve been really busy, and not in a good way. My routine is out of balance, as I have a lot of [...]

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Been Burnt by Outsourcing? 5 Tips to Get Started Again

June 9, 2013 By 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Merging your digital and natural brain – The Evernote mindset

June 6, 2013 By 4 Comments

Do you feel as if you are getting the most out of Evernote? Me neither. I am living in the notion that I am not getting nearly as much out of it as I could. So I’ve decided to tinker way more with it lately. And I’ve came to some simple and obvious solutions, but [...]

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Weekly Review – Picking The Right Task Manager and Observing Your Brain On The Digital

June 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

This last week, was my last week at my first office job, and hopefully, the last one. Therefore the big change is that I am on a vacation now, until I start moving to the USA. What I wrote How Encounter with Cairo Provoked Fear and challenged me to ultimately distort my world view – [...]

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How encounter with Cairo provoked fear and challenged me to ultimately distort my world view.

June 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Fear is the engine of humanity Without fear, there is no action. Our lizard brains are wired to move us to action, in a frenetic run from uncertainty. Which is a good thing, it is the reason why we survived despite the harsh conditions we were growing in as a species. Can you feel the [...]

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Total Evernote Automation with IFTTT and Hazel

June 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Whatever I do on the social and other web has implications on my Evernote. The deal with the internet is that I don’t trust it enough with my data, in order to believe it will remain out there. Evernote helps me bridge that gap in terms of knowing that I have access to the information, [...]

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Huge hidden costs of App switching

May 30, 2013 By 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Thoughts on Evernote Reminders and the new update

May 28, 2013 By 3 Comments

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 [...]

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