You may have heard about Roam Research as the hot new note-taking app, which it certainly is right now. I’m using it and I love it — but why? Let’s dive in. Structured organization vs fluid information At its core, Roam is yet another note taking app. You type stuff in and it saves it. […]
Technology
Some tweaks to my daily learning
This is an interesting time we’re in right now. While I certainly miss much of the weekly chaos of dance practice and soccer games, a bit of a break is kind of nice too. While I’ve been using the time to do a lot of reading (in the past month I’ve read Marketing Made Simple, […]
Highlights from “How to Take Smart Notes” by Sonke Ahrens
I just finished reading How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens. It interested me because over the past month or so I’ve really begun to focus better on my note-taking. This applies to books I’ve read, sermons at church, meetings with clients, videos I watch — any situation where I want to gain knowledge, […]
Loom vs Dubb vs Soapbox
A few months ago, I went on the hunt for a new app to help me with video screencasts. I create a lot of screencast videos on my YouTube channel, but at GreenMellen we also make a ton of private screencasts for our clients (talking through proposals, showing how to solve problems, etc). I’ve used […]
Weekly previews are intentionally inefficient
When I started using the Full Focus Planner back in May, by far the best thing I liked about it was the “Weekly Preview”. While I sort of tried to do one each week, with varying levels of success, this forced to take about 30-60 minutes each week to look back on what happened in […]
Google Stadia is coming soon and it’s looking great
This November, Google will finally launch Stadia, their new video game product. Stadia is much different than other video game systems (like Xbox and PlayStation) and has the potential to be a lot better. Stadia isn’t a normal gaming system that you buy; it’s a service that you subscribe to and the games stream to […]
Google Family Link is finally ready for prime time
Google first released Family Link a few years ago, as a way to help parents monitor their kid’s devices. However, it had a few issues: When it first came out, you could only monitor new Google accounts. If your kids already had an account, like ours did, they simply couldn’t added. Later, they added the […]
Busyness vs Clutter
A few days ago, a friend of Facebook posted a screenshot of their computer desktop and it was total chaos, with hundreds of folders and files filling the screen. She was proud of how busy she was, and I don’t doubt it, but it got me thinking about the intersection of busyness and clutter. I […]
Three lesssons from Before Breakfast
A few weeks ago, a new podcast came out called Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam. It’s a short (5 min), daily podcast to give you “productivity advice that will take your day from great to awesome.“ It’s been really interesting for me. Most days I think “that episode was a nice reminder of x”, but […]
Becoming Superhuman pushed me back to iPhone
I’ve loved Android for years (and still do), but I often said something like “I’m using Android for now, and for the foreseeable future, but I’ll move back to iPhone if it ever makes more sense for me.” In my opinion, people on both sides should always keep an open mind; “iPhone for life!” or […]