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In a pre­vi­ous post I talked about Adam Greenfield’s essay “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” as an impor­tant com­pan­ion piece to Moreville’s Ambient Findability. In his essay Greenfield also describes the haz­ards of allow­ing engi­neers to design the inter­ac­tions between humans and tech­nol­o­gy iter­at­ing the com­mon under­stand­ing that we the users are, … 

Continue read­ing “The bad­ness of engi­neer designed interfaces”

I’ve looked at a cou­ple of e‑book read­ers in the last month. So far noth­ing com­pelling has appeared. This morn­ing I had the though that the thing that will make me buy an e‑book read­er is: mar­gin­a­lia I love to write in books but I don’t any­more because mar­gin­a­lia influ­ences sec­ond read­ings too much. If I … 

Continue read­ing “e‑Books and marginalia”

Some days it pays to fol­low the bun­ny trails. Having just fin­ished Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability, I wan­dered down the web trail and found a snarky lit­tle thing he wrote for the O’Reilly web site called UFOs and there way down at the bot­tom I found a ref­er­ence to Adam Greenfield’s “All Watched over by … 

Continue read­ing “Loving Grace”

I’ve added a blogroll to the site. Not, I can hear you think­ing, much in the way of news now is it? Prolly not. I’m try­ing some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. Rather than the end­less­ly grow­ing col­lec­tion of links that I see spawned by vora­cious read­ers adding every­thing inter­est­ing they find. I’m going to keep the … 

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I’m pret­ty much a paper based GTDer; I just get along bet­ter with cel­lu­lose and ink. But for those of you who pre­fer to get things done elec­tron­i­cal­ly, over at Lifehacker, Gina has a nice arti­cle on the basics of set­ting up the var­i­ous parts of a GTD sys­tem in GoogleNotebook. A sim­i­lar set­up can … 

Continue read­ing “OneNote as a GTD container”