Tag: Productivity
Turn Screenshots into a Traceable AI Brief on iPhone
Use on-device OCR, source-linked facts, conflict review and explicit privacy choices to prepare screenshots for an AI brief.
best aesthetic to-do list app iPhone no subscription
Mochi To-Do is a free, no-ads checklist app with 100 illustrated skins — each with its own paper texture, fonts, and decorative details — so your daily task list actually looks like something you want to open.
app to block social media and YouTube before bed iPhone
LockHour's Sleep Wind Down mode runs a 60-minute pre-bed focus lock that shields Social, Video, and Entertainment apps — and it can be scheduled to activate automatically every night via iOS so you don't have to make the decision when you're already tired.
How to tailor my resume to a specific job description on my phone
Tailoring each resume to the posting is the single biggest ATS win — paste the job description, see what's missing, and adjust before you send.
Private AI Context Preparation on iPhone: What to Check
Evaluate source traceability, on-device extraction, privacy review and deliberate export before choosing an iPhone app to prepare context for AI.
How to Organize Mixed Sources into Reviewable AI Context
Turn screenshots, PDFs, files, notes and links into a source-linked brief while preserving conflicts, confidence and privacy choices.
Do I need a photo on my resume and how long should it be
Whether to include a photo and how long a resume should be depends on the country — getting it wrong can hurt you, so match the local convention.
Apps and Tools for Research and Writing
A guided tour of free and low-cost apps for reference management, distraction-free writing, note-taking, and time management for doctoral and academic writers.
The Kanban Method for Dissertation and Journal Article Writing
How the kanban method turns a dissertation or journal article into small, visible units of work you can actually finish, one card and one column at a time.
Using a split keyboard secondary spacebar as a function key
today iain learned: How to map a split keyboard secondary spacebar as a function key when held down
COMPULSION: The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History
I've been writing publicly every day for seven months, and I wanted to know what that looked like for other compulsive writers. From Chesterton dictating past midnight, to Chinese web fiction authors racing through 10,000 words daily. What does their obsessive output reveal about the nature of writing itself? The volume isn't the point. The showing up is.
Jacob Beckerman - Macro
Jacob Beckerman discusses the creation of Macro, a universal workspace for people doing information work.
The Cost Of Intelligence Isn’t Going Up, Your Expectations Are
Models keep doing more with fewer tokens but our expectations have gone up — painting a messy picture about the true cost of intelligence.
Being A 1.5-10x Developer
Good code begets good results, so let's make a case for using coding agents to write better code, rather than just more code.
Reader by Readwise as my link-saving eveything app
Every week I save dozens of links - articles, funny YouTube videos, Bluesky posts, Instagram videos. The only thing there's more of than links I save is apps that promise to organize all these links. And I've tried many of them - Raindrop.io, Instapaper, Pocket, MyMind, KeepIt...just to name a few. And then I grew tired of these (and their subscriptions) and started dumping everything into a folder in Apple Notes, which was OKAYish, but made it difficult to find things when I went looking for th...
The Teaching Computer
Many people are using AI to solve their problems when they could be leveraging AI to become better versions of who they want to be.
I've been using Evernote for about 16 years as a paying customer. In a month, they're increasing my price from $83.13 last year to $250. I think it's time for me to jump ship. I mainly use it to store scans of paper things I want to keep (I did like their OCR functionality). What...
Obsidian Reader
I was excited to see make this announcement last week: I use GoodLinks for saving most things I find on the web because it does great saving most things (and parsing text from most news outlets, including Apple News), highlighting is very easy in it, and I can easily export my highlights in Markdown to Obsidian (although in my desire to cure my digital hoarding disorder, I’m trying to do that less). However, this new element to the Obsidian web clipper app is really cool and I’ll probably use it...
Stay in the Loop: How I Actually Use Claude Code
How to multi-task Claude Code while staying in the loop, increasing success rate and parallelization.
Stay in the Loop: How I Actually Use Claude Code
How to multi-task Claude Code while staying in the loop, increasing success rate and parallelization.
My Blogging Workflow: A routine for nearly a post a day for 4 months straight.
A detailed look at my personal blogging workflow that has enabled me to write nearly a post a day for four months straight, including how I generate ideas, organize thoughts, and maintain consistency.
Always-on mini-monitor as a dashboard
today iain learned: How to build an always-on mini-monitor as a dashboard running on an Arch Linux/Hyprland computer
Automating Codex
You‘re one step away from turning Codex into a proactive assistant that tackles low-hanging fruit while you sleep.
Is the Obsidian graph useless?
According to Obsidian, the graph view is a core plugin that lets you visualize the relationships between the notes in your vault. Online there is a love/hate relationship with the Obsidian graph view. Some people see the sharing of these graphs as a useless flex (see here and here). Meanwhile, any forum where Obsidian users lurk is filled with pictures of these these weird brain-shaped dot graphs. But in this feature useful? Is it more than just “productivity porn?” (HT to Merlin Mann for that p...
You can't automate what you don't understand
AI is automation and no matter how good the model you cannot automate things you do not understand.
Build.ms: Making Technology Accessible To Everyone
Learn how to think about technology in a fast-moving world — I‘ll show you what matters and filter out the rest.
Claude Code: Part 3 - The Workflow
Three projects, parallel sessions, and the rhythm of AI-assisted development.
Cleaning up my messy read-it-later workflod
My read-it-later and bookmarking workflow is a mess. Digitally, my stuff is just…scattered. Random tidbits in Apple Notes, links and notes in Obsidian, remnants from when I used Readwise and synced those highlights, articles I clipped to Obsidian using the web clipper and then forgot about, and interesting YouTube videos saved in every corner of my device. 👋 Hello, I’m Drea and I am a digital hoarder. I consume many different types of content from a variety of sources throughout my day. My consu...
You will never do anything productive or meaningful with your life.
The liberation of realizing you can’t waste your time.