The end of an era: Goodbye, Backblaze. I don’t trust you. For years, I’ve used Backblaze to back up my computer and files. Just about 5 terabytes. The app has always performed pretty badly, so I typically turned off continuous scanning and used a launchd script to run a backup once per night. For years,…
The Supreme Productivity System: Using OmniFocus and Rituals for Peak Productivity
Let’s talk about how I stay at peak productivity by using rituals. Not the superstitious kind of rituals, but think of rituals as recurring reminders. I use “rituals” because the word is short and takes up less space on the screen of my computer. This is my Supreme Productivity System. The supreme productivity system is…
Email Inbox Sanity: How I manage my Email and Inboxes
I do not understand people when they complain to me about how many emails they have in their inbox. Day after day I hear moaning and complaining about how there are those 50, 100, whatever emails from last week that someone still hasn’t gotten to since vacation last week. Ridiculous! Here’s how I managed to…
How I Manage Receipts and Documents – Goodbye Mariner Paperless formerly ReceiptWallet
Here’s how I manage my Receipts and Documents. Time to shed a tear 😢 because my long-time Mac application companion Mariner Paperless (and formerly ReceiptWallet) are no more. This year (2023) it looks like Mariner software has gone belly. Their Web site has been down for several months. And there have been no meaningful updates to the Paperless software…