The best of the old ways are valuable not because they’re old, but because they are tried and tested. They work. Sometimes they are equal or superior to the new ways, sometimes they’re less efficient. But efficiency isn’t always the goal, is it? – Storing your stuff in plaintext is part of a bigger picture […]| Curtis McHale
While we’d like to think our world is one of freedom but it’s not. The world is only free for some while others live under rules made by people who want to strip their freedom. These rules are made by others, often rich white people, as a way to suppress the freedom of others and […]| Curtis McHale
I bought a DS920+ a few years ago after wanting a NAS for a long enough time that Drobo was the most recommended option. But when Synology decided to force some devices to only use their hard drives I saw the writing on the wall. At some point I’ll get my own server going without […]| Curtis McHale
The Obsidian Note Codes plugin does an interesting thing to bridge your digital and physical notes by producing a 4 letter code for a note which you can write down to reference that note in a notebook.| curtismchale.ca
Looking around at the productivity gurus writing about their ideal morning routine, or showing off their amazing productivity system, it’s easy to think that we’ve got it wrong. Our system doesn’t let us live the life we see captured in moments and posted on Instagram. The task manager we use doesn’t let us flow effortlessly between tasks checking off everything we should get done in a day. We don’t have the time to get to everything and boy that list of interesting books and articl...| curtismchale.ca