We spoke with Paul Mayne, one of the great people behind the journaling app Day One. If you’re not familiar, I love Day One but use it very judiciously. It was fantastic to talk with Paul about his thoughts about the subject. If you like Day One you will especially like this episode. If you don’t care about Day One, then I think this episode was still full of ideas about how and when to capture details of your life.
Neil Armstrong passed away on August 25th, 2012. NASA had a nice tribute. Whether you care about space travel or not (I do), I think it’s fair to say that Neil Armstrong inspired millions and millions of extraordinary people to go out into a variety of fields and do something significant. I know for a fact he inspired many children to become scientists that made the human condition significantly less terrible.
Nitro is a new opensource task management webapp. It’s basic but pretty darn good and syncs through Dropbox. The lack of a few key features prevents me from using it but it’s at least as good as many that I’ve tried in the past.
Derek Lowe is a better man than I am:
That’s the problem with conspiratorial thinking: the rabbit hole has no bottom to it. I refuse to dive in.
I wouldn’t even dignify it with a response. Seriously, if you are really concerned, do some actual work. Reading alone will very rarely reveal any scientific truth. Just ask the NSA.
Scapple is a basic context mapping app for the Mac. Now there’s a Windows version. I don’t really use Scapple on my Mac but multi-platform support is compelling. Besides, it’s from Literature and Latte, the makers of Scrivener. I’ll buy everything they make.
Hilton Lipschitz has a really good write-up of using Chronosync to backup over Back To My Mac. I’ve used Chronosync for years and it’s a great backup system. I never knew it could do this. Crazy.
Jen Schradie on Mark Zuckerberg’s asinine essay:
Write this down: correlation is not causation. It’s a neat phrase to throw around at cocktail parties. But for our purposes, the Internet in and of itself will not solve the structural problems in the developing world. Think about it this way – the economic advantages that the developed world has, often on the back of the developing world, could be fostering Internet growth, rather than the other way around.
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What it’s like living in a “free” country:
I hope that makes it clear why I can’t continue. There is now no shield from forced exposure. Nothing in that parenthetical thought list is terrorism-related, but no one can feel protected enough from forced exposure any more to say anything the least bit like that to anyone in an email, particularly from the US out or to the US in, but really anywhere.
What’s New in Yojimbo 4
Yojimbo syncing is provided as a subscription service. The first 30 days are free, and the subscription charge is US$2.99 per month thereafter. You may cancel your subscription at any time; if you do, Yojimbo will simply stop synchronizing your data between your Macs — you won’t lose any of your stored information.
It’s an interesting decision. I haven’t found information about their plans for syncing with iOS.
