Archives
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
- 31: A Quick Look at Ulysses 2.1
- 24: iPad at Work
- 18: Three Things
- 10: Standing Outside the Library Blasting Peter Gabriel on my Boom Box
- 06: Thanks Steve
- 03: Kindle Fire Pre-Order? Check.
September 2011
August 2011
- 17: More Morris Lessmore, Please
- 05: Untitled: Thoughts on the Creative Process
- 01: Echo Workshop: Rhythms and Tools for Creative Work
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
- 31: Six Mac App Store Gems
- 20: On Discipline
- 19: Using the iPad for Speaking Notes
- 13: Camelbak Air
- 13: MacSparky reviews OmniOutliner for iPad
- 06: Ranking the PDF Reading Apps
- 05: iPad or Bust: OmniOutliner for iPad!
- 05: Do the Work
April 2011
- 19: Writings for iPad updated to 1.2
- 14: Let the Fear Out
- 12: How to Steal Like an Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)
- 04: Writing with an iPad: six-month review
- 04: Writing Markdown using LaunchBar and TextExpander [Screencast]
- 04: Screencast: OmniFocus (part 1 of 3)
March 2011
- 25: Hands On, Hypothetically, With a Nook Color
- 22: The Return of the iPad Writing Apps Showdown
- 21: How to make money in bed
- 16: Scrivener… from my POV
- 07: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
- 03: The Weight of a Good Notebook
- 01: iPad: The First 399 Days
February 2011
January 2011
- 28: Filter Friday
- 25: Creative Tools 2011: Curation
- 19: Creative Tools 2011: Hardware
- 18: A very simple daily log using Launchbar and AppleScript
- 12: Does the World Really Need Another Dropbox Post?
- 10: Where Creativity Goes to Die
- 05: The Best New Mac and iOS Software of 2010
- 04: Scrivener Thesaurus Hack, Anyone?
- 04: 501 words on Imagine
- 04: Phil Coffman on Tradewinds
December 2010
- 31: "This Year" Begins With "Every Day"
- 28: Ulysses Writing Software is 50% Off
- 27: Refurbished MacBook Airs have Arrived
- 27: DropDAV: An easy way to link iWork for iPad and Dropbox
- 21: Time lost and found
- 21: nvALT
- 16: I, Reader
- 16: The Fusion Ads Holiday Bundle
- 15: Evernote 2.0 for Mac is now available
- 15: So I Got an Air
- 13: The Indie Mac Gift Pack
- 06: 7 Rules for Writing
- 04: Before the Famous Five Minute Install
November 2010
- 30: The Workstation of a Freelance Journalist: iMacs & iPads
- 29: Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
- 16: CSS3 for Web Designers
- 12: Tweet Library 1.1 for iPad (iTunes link)
- 12: InstaPaper 2.3 Can Send Articles to OmniFocus
- 09: Hibari: My Mac Twitter App of Choice
- 09: iPad, MacBook Air, or Both?
- 05: Gruber uninstalled Flash
- 05: Screencasts Online Review of Scrivener 2.0
- 05: Logophiliacs Rejoice! Scrivener 2.0 is Here
- 04: Elements 1.5 for iPad
- 03: Yesterday, I launched a new site for Ecstatic Cuisine
- 02: Scrivener 2.0
- 02: DFLL Plugin
- 02: And Then There Were Links
October 2010
- 27: What is Your Creative Process?
- 22: First Impressions: Yojimbo for iPad
- 20: Hey Publishers
- 14: The iPad Writing Apps Showdown
- 08: So Long, Satellite TV
- 05: Hands On With the DODOcase for iPad
September 2010
- 30: Capturing Ideas Revisited: Yojimbo
- 27: My Future iPad to Scrivener Writing Workflow
- 20: And then there was byJohnChandler.com
- 16: The Thing About Kindle You Might Not Know
- 09: The Quest for the Perfect Pocket Notebook
- 07: Did you hear that pin drop?
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
- 25: Book Review: Making Ideas Happen
- 19: Creative Tools: iPad
- 14: Hands on With Textexpander 3
- 06: Revisiting Things
- 04: announcing 501Words
April 2010
- 28: my ipad (and iphone) to scrivener workflow
- 26: a work week with the iPad
- 18: the ipad experiment
- 16: hands on with the iPad
March 2010
- 19: hands on with kindle for mac
- 10: how a $.99 iphone app led me to an important realization
- 02: ephemera
February 2010
January 2010
- 28: my nagging feeling about the ipad
- 25: tableticipation
- 15: creative tools: 2010 update
- 11: two years…and still plenty of fog
December 2009
November 2009
- 19: for the love of instapaper
- 11: creating requires doing [the war of art]
- 04: task management smackdown
October 2009
September 2009
- 29: the inspiration archive
- 22: the box [the creative habit]
- 11: hands on with voila
- 04: workflow review
August 2009
- 28: scrivener to go
- 26: textexpander on the iphone!
- 24: contexts: meetings
- 17: hands on with pdfpen
- 10: deadlines can be lifelines [the creative habit]
- 07: creativity is an act of defiance [the creative habit]
July 2009
June 2009
- 24: problem solving 101
- 19: post2post tour next week: problem solving 101
- 18: seven features i love in iphone 3.0
- 10: inbox off
- 04: creative practices: david sparks
May 2009
- 29: podcasts: engaging ideas
- 21: hands on with shovebox
- 18: scratch when you don't itch [the creative habit]
- 15: the creative practices podcast
- 13: creative practices: cesar torres
- 12: be good to your soul [the creative habit]
April 2009
- 21: i can't believe i'm saying this…
- 20: creative practices: zach lind
- 17: the creative practices series
- 11: weekly links and tweets — 2009-04-11
- 04: weekly links and tweets — 2009-04-04
March 2009
- 30: creative tools: various sundry miscellany
- 28: weekly links and tweets — 2009-03-28
- 27: eternal timefulness
- 25: hands on with the macheist 3 bundle
- 24: make something terrible today [the creative habit]
- 21: weekly links and tweets — 2009-03-21
- 18: creative tools: production
- 16: grooves, giving, and generosity [the creative habit]
- 14: Weekly Links and Tweets — 2009-03-14
- 11: max's words
- 07: Weekly Links and Tweets — 2009-03-07
- 04: kindle for iphone: first impressions
- 02: contexts: waiting
February 2009
- 27: creative tools: backend
- 25: hands on with the kindle 2
- 24: the creative habit
- 22: creativityist 3.0
- 20: steven pressfield on creative work
- 17: the evernote to curio double whack pack
- 10: kindle 2: worth the upgrade?
- 09: contexts: writing
- 02: creative tools: hardware
January 2009
- 29: contexts: weekly review
- 23: thinking about contexts
- 14: omnifocus or things?
- 13: one year…and still pushing back the fog
December 2008
- 30: david allen's new book: making it all work
- 30: actiongear: review (and giveaway!)
- 19: private library
- 17: review: curio by zengobi software
- 09: start dates
- 01: the flow state
November 2008
- 24: creative soundtrack
- 20: of play, possibility, and productivity
- 19: give good food to your mac
- 17: the artist's way collective: week 12 and wrap-up
- 13: producer or procrastinator?
- 10: the artist's way collective: week 11 hub
- 07: the distraction free mac
- 05: the now habit
- 03: the artist's way collective: week 10 hub
October 2008
- 31: away with you, menubar!
- 29: artist's way reflections: week 9
- 27: head to head: comparing scrivener and storymill
- 27: the artist's way collective: week 9 hub
- 25: artist's way reflections: week 8
- 24: have a creative november
- 20: the artist's way collective: week 8 hub
- 17: macbook pro: first impressions
- 17: artist's way reflections: week 7
- 15: a memory a day…
- 13: the artist's way collective: week 7 hub
- 06: 1326wpm!
- 06: the artists's way collective: week 6 hub
September 2008
- 30: slices of slife
- 29: the artist's way collective: week 5 hub
- 26: artist's way reflections: week 4
- 24: slife review
- 22: the artist's way collective: week 4 hub
- 18: espresso preview please
- 16: a folder for the trendy kids
- 15: the artist's way collective: week 3 hub
- 12: artist's way reflections: week two
- 09: quicksilver + scrivener = carpal bliss
- 08: the artist's way collective: week 2 hub
- 05: artist's way reflections: week one
- 02: the blinder workstation (or, the poor man's macbook air)
- 01: the artist's way collective: week 1 hub
August 2008
- 27: michael pollan hq
- 25: the artist's way collective: what to share
- 22: getting comfortable with omnifocus
- 19: the artist's way collective: schedule
- 14: clean out yer dock
- 11: the artist's way collective: how it works
- 08: creativityist hq
- 07: making time to make
- 04: quick task tips
- 02: the artist's way collective: an intro
July 2008
- 30: creativityist notes – 07.30.08
- 29: using spaces as blinders
- 14: evernote for iphone: early impressions
- 14: omnifocus for iphone: early impressions
- 07: mobileme on the cheap(er)
June 2008
- 30: rhythm vs. routine
- 19: a whack on the side of the head
- 19: q&a with roger von oech
- 11: on writing
- 10: omnifocus for iphone!
- 06: reading journal
- 05: post2post tour
- 02: silverflow
May 2008
- 27: on writing well
- 12: when "when" is good
- 11: "
- 01: oneword
April 2008
- 29: when "when" is bad
- 18: freeeeeeedddoooommmm!
- 17: just. get. started.
- 14: evaluating evernote
- 09: capture everything revisited: jott
- 08: another mac software bundle
- 02: evernote preview
March 2008
- 30: off
- 29: leap at maczot
- 28: spring cleaning the documents folder
- 21: yep at maczot
- 18: blinders: for a distracted mind
- 12: minimalism
- 10: some love for my kindle
- 07: lazy saturday links – 03.07.08 (special friday pm edition)
- 04: 4:26
February 2008
- 29: i'm finally cool
- 25: taskpaper at maczot
- 24: capture everything: the incubator
- 23: lazy saturday links – 02.23.08
- 20: being vs. doing: i do so i can be
- 18: creativity loves company
- 16: lazy saturday links – 02.16.08
- 13: yojimbo makeover
- 11: capture everything: out and about
- 10: bird by bird: the emotional center
- 09: lazy saturday links — 02.09.08
- 08: creativity begets creativity
- 06: contexts: tinkering
- 05: bird by bird: give and give and give and give
- 04: capture everything: ideas
- 02: of poets and mathematicians
- 01: weekly links – 02.01.08
- 01: bird by bird: the unspeakable
January 2008
- 28: capture everything: tasks
- 26: seusspiration
- 25: a twitter novel
- 24: speaking of scrivener
- 24: capture everything: buckets
- 22: daily pages
- 21: i'm such an amateur
- 18: create or die
- 18: workflow tools: software
- 17: creative space
- 16: storymill
- 15: creative speedbump
- 14: workflow tools: hardware
- 12: getting things created
- 11: "but I'm not creative"
- 10: creativityist…one who practices creativity




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