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When I wrote about my misgivings with Slack as a productivity tool, I mentioned that my team had finally—after months of false starts—found our ideal solution for staying organized and in touch.
That solution is Basecamp 3, but you know what they say about the journey being as important as the destination. I want to unpack our decision a bit and chart our course to Basecamp in an effort to explain why we ended up there.
Read More → review productivityConfession time: I don’t like Slack.
Swept up in the tech community’s effusive flood of positivity for the product, I spent many months thinking I did. Before I explain why I was wrong, I should state that I believe much of the praise showered on Slack is deserved. For some team workflows, Slack provides a powerful and charming solution to the problem of collaborative communication.
Read More → review productivityAlmost a year ago, I wrote about how Pocket and Instapaper have fundamentally different approaches to saving and revisiting content.
Over the past year, both products have made some significant improvements, and while they reinforce my initial conclusions, they also indicate some interesting shifts in the landscape of content saving.
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I recently reviewed two of the best e-readers on the market, the Kobo Aura H2O and the Kindle Paperwhite.
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Marius Masalar