Jess Martin writes about task management with Trello (but only tangentially references actually using Trello):
You might think it’s working. You might even be considered effective at your work. Someone might have once called you a rock star or a ninja. You might not find out that it’s not really working until you get that promotion you’ve been craving. Or things get busy at home. And then you’re stuck with a broken system, underperforming in your new role, overwhelmed at home, and you’re wishing you could just go mow a lawn.
iThoughtsX for Mac just released a new update that adds a couple of nice features. The first is pretty big: user definable sorting.1
You can set sort order based on several criteria and the child nodes all rearrange from top to bottom. There’s simple alphabetical sorting, but there’s also much more advanced sorting based on meta data like due dates or the order they were modified.
If you are using iThoughts for task management (I’m not) this is pretty interesting.
I really like Monument Valley. It’s a puzzle game with great design that also somehow relaxes me. By far, my favorite levels were in their ProductRed package released earlier this year. The puzzles were harder and the ideas were fresher.
Now you can get those same levels for free inside the latest Monument Valley update.
This is the Best.
I got a new computer and my Nerds on Draft co-host destroyed an old computer. So we both enjoy a beer and talk about starting from scratch with a new Mac.
I mentioned Todoflow, a python module for working with Taskpaper files, back when I first started using the system full time. It has a lot of the core query support of TaskPaper right from Python.
Now, the same module is available through an Editorial workflow. The workflow automatically installs the module if needed and supports advanced queries and result folding. It adds some minor enhancements to the TaskPaper query syntax (like a “today” term) but does not support parenthetical (nested) expressions.
Editorial for iOS is great without much additional work. Slide your finger on the extra keyboard row to move the cursor. Tap the document title to do a word search with highlighting. Preview Markdown simply by swiping to the preview window.
If you use it as much as I do, you may find these additional macros useful. Editorial is a means for working with text and often it can seem like a heavy IDE that requires a huge time investment.
The latest Nerds on Draft episode highlights Hopstoopid from Lagunitas and Jeff’s recommendations for giving my kid her first computer.
If that sounds interesting to you, then maybe subscribe in iTunes.
Or just check out the Google Map of the beers we’ve covered on the show.
This article from Lighthouse fits my experience and sentiments exactly. I’ve had many, many jobs in a variety of fields. I’ve been a group manager and a lone wolf. I’ve also been at my current job for over a decade. Everything in this article rang true for me.
This is also something from the article that I’ve told my closest friends when they struggle with their jobs:
Companies have no such relationship with their employees, nor should they aspire to it.
I think these three consecutive articles describe the current problem pretty well:
The original report from The Register
We completely cracked the keychain service - used to store passwords and other credentials for different Apple apps - and sandbox containers on OS X, and also identified new weaknesses within the inter-app communication mechanisms on OS X and iOS which can be used to steal confidential data from Evernote, Facebook and other high-profile apps.
If you use Google or Microsoft 365 calendaring, Meekan looks excellent. It connects calendars and Slack so you can propose a meeting and have it autmatically suggest times where the entire team is available. Slack is so great.
By way of Adam Ludwin on Twitter
