Why You Need a Someday/Maybe List
Don’t Let Someday Distract You From Today
A Someday/Maybe list is a place to store ideas until their time has come (or not).
Author: Colter Reed
Colter lives in the heart of Silicon Valley with his wife and children. He enjoys golf, sings baritone, and watches mostly British TV shows.
Why You Have to Care for Yourself First
Your First Stewardship is Your Self
It’s in every preflight safety training, even the epic ones: “Put on your own oxygen mask before helping someone else with theirs.” On his Smarter Every Day YouTube channel, Destin Sandlin induced hypoxia in himself—under the close supervision of professionals, including a flight surgeon—to demonstrate the effects. By the end, he couldn’t figure out how […]
How to Create an OmniFocus Project Using OmniJS
So much faster I thought it hadn’t worked
Here’s a script to create a new OmniFocus project using OmniJS. Feel free to use it as a starting point for your own scripts.
Can You Sleep Through the Storm?
Deal with problems on your terms
Life storms are going to come. You can deal with them as they happen, or you can deal with them on your terms.
How to Create OmniFocus Projects with TaskPaper and JavaScript for Automation
A Little Automation Goes a Long Way
TaskPaper is a great format for copying and pasting tasks and projects between OmniFocus and other apps. You can also use it with Shortcuts to create dynamic projects on iOS. I’ve been scripting OmniFocus for years now. It lets me add my own features to OmniFocus. But I’ve fallen into the same trap into which […]
How Can You Be Proactive at a Reactive Job?
Find ways to shift your time from Quadrant 1 to Quadrant 2
No matter how reactive your job description is, there are always ways you can be more proactive at work.
How to Send a Push Notification from Terminal
Let your Mac notify your iPhone or Apple Watch when it’s ready for you
Here’s how to send a push notification to your iPhone from the Terminal in macOS. Instead of waiting for a long job to finish, let your Mac notify you.
What Do You Really Want in Your Life?
And do you have the courage to cultivate it?
Every now and then, things creep into our schedules that don’t belong there. Like Michelangelo, we need to remove the bits that don’t look like our masterpiece.
How to Stop Procrastinating in One Easy Step
Get more done by putting less on your list—for now
Having trouble with procrastination? Try putting just that task on your list—just that one—until after you’ve finished it.
Six Ways Your Family will Struggle Without a Vision
Every team needs a leader, even a family
All leaders need a vision for their team, not just at work. Here are six ways your family will struggle, too, if you don’t have a vision.