May 8, 2020

Centralizing Highlights

There’s been a gap in the general “productivity” app space for years now, and it baffles me that no one has cracked it yet.

Highlights.

You can highlight content in read-it-later apps like Instapaper and Pocket, you can highlight content in Apple Books and Kindle, you can highlight text on the web using extensions, or natively on Medium, or you can simply clip bits of text into your note-taking app of choice.

What you can’t do is access all of these highlights from one place.

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May 2, 2020

Improving Your Sleep Setup →

I used to be much more of a quantified self type of geek.

I tracked steps, filled rings, examined “sleep quality”, and used beautiful dashboards to evaluate how successful my efforts to optimize were.

Magic Keyboard: Turning the iPad Into Something New →

What do you get when you strand hundreds of bored tech pundits at home during a pandemic? Thousands of words spilled about a new keyboard accessory, it seems.

It makes sense: there are few things writers interact with more than their keyboards, so a new contender is an understandable object of scrutiny and discussion.

Productivity Isn’t Working →

I’m likely not the only one who’s been revisiting the changing nature of what it means to make valuable use of our time.

In this wonderful essay for Wired, Laurie Penny cuts to the core of what and how this virus is teaching us about our so-called “productivity”. It’s really workaholism and the modern cult of the hustle that she’s discussing, though the line between them seems awfully thin sometimes.