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BlogsCustom feed refreshing in NetNewsWireMerlin Mann | Feb 28 2005NetNewsWire is one my favorite Mac applications. It's a beautiful RSS/Atom reader with so many wonderful features that it's easy to lose one of it's smartest ones in the lights. I've talked recently about the value of setting your email program's "autocheck" frequency to something more realistic than "every minute," as so many folks currently do. It's an easy way to minimize distraction, plus it encourages the smart habit of "ganging" email work into focused sprints of activity—rather than dashing away from whatever you're doing every minute or two like Pavlov's drooly puppy. NetNewsWire has a setting that supports this same good habit in your site surfing habits. Under " 21 Comments
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Remainders: Capturing, saving, next next actions, and that damned Kelly Clarkson songMerlin Mann | Feb 25 2005Today’s gonna be a quickie since I can audibly hear a couple deadlines whooshing past me right this second. read more »POSTED IN:
Guest: Mike Harris looks at "Remind"Merlin Mann | Feb 24 2005How much do I love my readers? So much. Mike Harris very kindly sent me a suggestion about having a look at Remind, a swell little Unix program for doing CLI stuff to give yourself, well, reminders. It’s really quite powerful, that. Despite my initially flipping the bozo bit by asking for technical support about installing Remind, Mike responded with one of the most useful emails I’ve received in a year. So good, that I asked him to move a couple things around and turn it into a full-length guest feature for 43 Folders. So he did. Many thanks, Mike. I'm still getting my head around a lot of this, but already see many uses for this. Fellow Unix noobs: this looks like a pretty good first project, eh? read more »POSTED IN:
Cahier: The Honda Accord of MoleskinesMerlin Mann | Feb 23 2005
Moleskine Cahier Extra Large Notebooks, MoleskineUS
Just received my first test shipment of the new Moleskine Cahier notebooks from Moleskine US. I’ll write a fuller review when I’ve had a chance to use them more, but here’s a few quick impressions. read more »POSTED IN:
Intermediate Quicksilver tutorialMerlin Mann | Feb 23 2005Dan Dickinson posts a great, intermediate Quicksilver tutorial; how are you using Quicksilver? read more »POSTED IN:
Remainders: Coin envelopes, sprints, binder clipping & moreMerlin Mann | Feb 18 2005Our usual Friday skip through the meadow of Merlin's marginally-productive brain. read more »POSTED IN:
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