I’ve noticed of late that I’ve been posting relatively few student-y posts, and since I always meant this to be a student-y weblog, I thought this little post at frugal for life (found via Lifehacker) might be relevant.
Now, I guess you could argue that stinky student flats are par for the course, or at least […]
So at the moment it’s a bit of a hassle to open large numbers of images in preview. Lifehacker have posted a handy little app called Xee which takes a lot of the kerfuffle of browsing through folders out, but I thought it might be worth noting that Preview can actually open whole folders at […]
You’ve started referring to apps by their abbreviations instead of their actual names You’re seriously considering installing an applescript-controlled x10 system in your home just so Quicksilver can actually make you coffee in the morning You’ve changed the keystroke to Cmd-Space instead of Ctrl-Space just so it’s that little bit closer. Your hands twitch in the junkie Ctrl-Space […]
LifeDev posted this back in February but I forgot to blog about it because I Am But Human and the link kinda got lost in my Google Reader Starred category (seriously, it’s a cool feature, but a number-of-starred-items indicator would be nice).
Anyway, I mostly agree with the opinions put across in the article, and the […]
OrganizeIT have posted a nice little meta-review of Your Best Year Yet by Jinny Ditzler, looking at concepts expounded in the book and expanding them into general GTD practice.
It’s interesting stuff - although it seems obvious on the surface it’s worthwhile to note that ‘Do’ and ‘Complete’ are different stages, as are ‘Complete and ‘Reward’. […]
One of my favourite things to do is read. One of the cheapest ways to get books, however,isn’t Amazon or whatever - if you really want the classics on the cheap, you need look no further than Project gutenberg.
Gutenberg is named after the inventor of the printing press, and stands to be equally revolutionary. The […]
Now, this is going to seem like I’m going off-topic here, but bear with me for a second.
I want to talk to you about dogs.
Dog Training
I read a lot about habits, particularly from Steve Pavlina. The act of working out what habit you want and embedding it deep in your psyche and muscle memory is […]
A nice new academic-centric productivity blog that’s worth a look: Academic Productivity. In particular, I enjoyed this interview with Dave Navarro, in which he talks about how he writes academic papers - a ‘bottom up’ approach, choosing figures and chunks of text and then slowly building up into the big picture. Which is interesting, because […]
I’ve lately found myself having to copy text out of a range of password-protected PDFs for Entirely Legal Reasons. Under Windows there’s a nice set of tools for engaging in such tomfoolery: see this lifehacker article for more info - but I’ve found a stupidly simple way to do this under Mac OS X, provided […]
Taking useful notes is really, really important across all fields - not just in an academic context. I use the cornell index card system for note taking, writing my notes on index cards and later ‘tagging’ the notes in the left-hand column.
The Proper Cornell System
Wikipedia details the Cornell system in great detail here - there […]