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Managing information | Jonathan Buys

I use a simple hierarchal structure of folders, where the topmost folders are the largest portions of my life, (Home, Work, College, and Farmdog currently) followed by further topical or task-based folder names. I then use plain text files to store the data, either in Markdown, or just as plain text without markup. I find that this structure maps directly in my mind to how I think about how the computer works. Search is useful, but I use it when I can not remember where I saved a particular file, or if I inadvertently saved it in the wrong place.

Great article about the use of plain text files and the reason behind it. I’ve talked about it before.

This is exactly my set up as well. All notes are in markdown files which I can edit in gVim, easily grab the HTML with the excellent Marked.app and find text using Finder or grep.

Another trick, is since everything is stored in Dropbox I can easily pull up and edit notes on iPhone using my favorite mobile editor Nocs.

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“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone …. I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.”

slantback.: Open-plan Offices Suck — Privacy Makes Us Productive at Farnam Street

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attention industry: The Problem with Dreams.

attentionindustry:

It comes down to whether you consider your career, and your life, to be about a destination, or a journey.

Journey people admit they don’t know where to end up. Ideally, they chase passion and talent, and see where the best next step there is for them to take will lead them.

Destination people focus more on what and who they WANT to be, than what or who they would be GREAT at being.

Dreams can be motivational, inspirational, and solve a hell of a lot of problems. But they aren’t anything near a plan, or even an optimization of circumstance.

Great short write up with a nice perspective on “success”.

The Weight of Walmart

“He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (via sunrec)

Happy Holidays From Badass JavaScript!

badassjs:

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Badass JavaScript! I made an animated holiday greeting card for you all to enjoy, so check that out. It is built entirely with SVG and CSS animations, so it is entirely scalable and should even work great on the iPhone! I had originally animated…

I’m patiently awaiting winter here still in nyc.

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slantback:

The friend-finding feature works because the cane contains a specially designed phone that slots into the handle and connects to a Bluetooth earpiece with an audio interface. A trackball on the handle controls the menu and points which way to go.

When a friend checks in on Foursquare (or any other location-sharing service), the cane alerts the blind user with an audio message, saying how far away the person is, down to how many steps it will take to reach them. The cane offers the option to ignore, call the friend, or, most impressively, go find them, an option blind people don’t usually get to experience. (via A Cane For The Blind Improves Social Interactions, Sunday Strolls | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation)

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9/11 Memorial (by navid j)

Minimal: Occupy Tumblr

mnmal:

Here’s the idea as described by my friend Patrick Rhone from Minimal Mac:

What if, 1% of the users of a particular free service of 36 million clients and growing, were to decide to drop $10.00 cash every month into an envelope and mail it to said service? What if that envelope had no return…

Might just drop my payment off in person and skip the letter :)

Occupy Flash - The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin

mnmal:

Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent (and often unusable) experience for fast-growing percentage of the users who don’t use a desktop browser. It introduces some scary security and privacy issues by way of Flash cookies.

Flash makes the web less accessible. At this point, it’s holding back the web.

I hate Flash. Let’s get rid of it.

Workspace | Trent Walton

minimalmac:

I like the idea of defining certain spaces or postures for specific activities. The sit and click posture taxes my cognitive and creative faculties after too long. It’s hard for my brain to move from reading to writing, designing, troubleshooting, etc., when my body remains stationary. I need to move. Breaking up the workday by visiting different spaces in the office at different times not only keeps me fresh, it allows me to establish habit fields around certain types of activities.

I know lots of folks that benefit greatly from this idea. I too find my productivity increases by simply switching the space I’m in or the device I’m using.

(via Phil Coffman)