THE WRITTEN RECORD

Tag: Technology

The Cult Of Mac

Yours truly was recently featured on a prominent website again. In the article, David was kind enough to feature the tools of my trade and how crucial a clean, minimal, dark and dedicated workspace enhances productivity and focus. Special thanks…

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Analog Notes

Following up on a previous post, I have too many unused paper journal notebooks in the form of Field Notes©. I need to frequently remind myself to use them, and this post intends to do just that. During the day,…

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The Ideal Life

Lately, I’ve been thinking of the optimal lifestyle and how to get the best out of life. How can I better my existence? An ideal lifestyle is one you have to define for yourself. So if I wanted to focus…

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Overthink Before I Act

Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. This website has seen a lot of documentation on tools, workflow, and productivity. I would rather not have a workflow, I don’t want to talk…

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Long Live The iPod

The iPod is a discontinued (as of May 10, 2022) portable media player designed by Apple in 2001. At 20 years, the iPod brand is the oldest device to be discontinued by Apple. It’s the end of an era, that’s…

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Technical Issues

If you think technology will solve your problems then you don’t understand technology – and, you don’t understand your problems. Find the best tool for a specific job and stick with it. This is better said than done for me…

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Take Charge

“Nothing about the Internet is fixed, permanent, or inevitable. It is malleable, shape-shifting, and constantly evolving. And it increasingly comes with more responsibility and risks for guarding our own data and taking charge of distributing our words and images.” This…

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Plain Text

Just about everything I write digitally- blog posts, to-do’s, notes, journal, code, thoughts, plans, etc get drafted in text format (.txt) These are an extension of me, my digitized, quantified, extended memory of organized thoughts. I use them often for…

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Server Issues

After an hour and a half with my server host, the connection issue to my Micro posts page was unresolved. I am trying to secure the web certificate so it reads as: The “S” in the domain name denotes a…

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Ulysses Update

Ulysses 26 update looks great. Now with custom fonts and better support for accessing my web server (meaning I can connect to it again. Will I re-up or stick with iA Writer? Unfortunately I run into an error where I…

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I Want This

There are many things in my life that I don’t need. I don’t need half the technology I have, nor most of online services that I pay for. This includes the hosting for my website. I don’t need it, but…

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Productivity?

I should really get my shit together. I’m thinking of changing/eliminating my complex “productivity” system with something simpler. Such as “Write it down so I don’t forget it. Then do it as soon as I can.” I don’t need more…

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Aggregate Your News

One of the pillars of the internet , next to e-mail, is the personal, humble blog. You know, the social internet, not social media. Creators, writers, photographers, video hosts, and podcasters all need to put their works on a site…

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Website Updates & Additions

After rebuilding this website I realized I hadn’t added any navigation menus to look around with. Well now, we can’t have that, can we?

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iCloud+ Custom Email Domain

Ever since Apple released a beta version of custom email domain through iCloud last year, I was interested. Now that I’ve had time to follow-up with it, a new email address was created using my photography domain at no extra…

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