Johnny Chadda

Productivity

Referencing external tasks in OmniFocus

Getting Things Done provides an excellent framework for managing all aspects of your life. What could easily happen in a professional work environment though, is that there is already an existing tool in place to keep track of tasks for the entire team, be it Trello, Pivotal Tracker or some

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Alternote Review

One of the most prominent apps when thinking about productivity is without a doubt the green note-taking app with the friendly elephant called Evernote. There are apps available for virtually every platform and device imaginable, and it will sync virtually anything from photos to large files. There is one area

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Stockholm 2015, May 21st

The weather in Stockholm is finally shaping up, so I decided to bring my camera on a recent walk through the city. Let's get started! The walk started close to Kungsträdgården, but swiftly continued on to Skeppsholmen, a small island quite literally in the middle of the city. Right when

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Summer reads for 2015

What began as a simple urge to read the hyped up sci-fi novel by Andy Weir called The Martian before the movie would hit the local theaters, ended up becoming the start of taking reading itself to another level. Almost like meditation, reading makes one disregard everything that's going on

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David Allen explains the Natural Planning Model

David Allen recently held a TEDx presentation in Amsterdam on the Natural Planning Model called Getting in control and creating space [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSFxKaqOm4], and why it has such a big impact in getting projects going and actually finished. If you are responsible for planning projects

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A modern approach to contexts and perspectives in OmniFocus

Ever since the book Getting Things Done was released and the notion of separating actions in projects into contexts was first introduced, people have been trying to customize, and improve the effectiveness of their definition ever since. Being an OmniFocus user for quite a while, I naturally started out with

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How To: Using Cloudflare with WordPress

In an effort to make this blog load fast everywhere in the world and not just in Europe where the server happens to be located, I decided give Cloudflare a try, since they offer a free service in addition to their premium offerings. There are however some not quite so

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Worldwide Photo Walk 2014

This year I attended Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photo Walk once again. Last time was apparently in 2009, so it was about time! It was a lot of fun, even though a couple of us lost track of the main group somewhere along the way.

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Venice (2014)

I visited Venice, Italy a few weeks ago and it is an amazing city, full of life, culture and yes, water. The weather was excellent and the wine tasted divine. Substituting roads and buses for canals and vaporettos is something I could get used to on a permanent basis. Here

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Autumn Photowalk 2014

After the recent 500px photo walk, a lot of people thought it would be great to continue doing these walks, so a Stockholm photo walk group was started. Fall is upon us in Sweden, and the leaves are soon starting to to turn blood red. The color transformation has just

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Nordic.js 2014

I recently attended nordic.js, a two-day conference all about JavaScript. There were amazing speakers presenting, such as Douglas Crockford, Reginald Braithwaite and Hakim El Hattab. The Artipelag venue was located in the Stockholm archipelago and the surrounding nature was beautiful. The mornings were magical as well, sunny with a

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500px Photowalk 2014 - Patterns

These are my pattern & signs-related photos from the recent 500px photo walk in Stockholm. It was lots of fun and a challenge to only focus on one particular type of subject. I had lots of fun and look forward to the next walk!

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Sync your Lightroom catalog using Dropbox

Work in the same Lightroom environment on multiple Macs using Dropbox.

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Moving from Aperture to Lightroom

What to do now that Aperture has been discontinued.

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Stockholm Zombie Walk 2014

The streets of Stockholm were once again filled with zombies roaming the streets. Had a lot of fun shooting the walk and can't wait for next year! If you are interested in using one of these images on your website or social network, please link back to this page. If

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Using Fail2ban with Nginx and UFW

I was recently hit with a denial of service attack on this very blog, and it hold up surprisingly well. The only reason I found out about it was when, after the attack was well under way, the WordPress Jetpack [http://jetpack.me/]plugin alerted me about my site being

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Sunset in Skeppsholmen

Instead of walking directly to the subway after work, I took a slightly different route home and experienced a beautiful sunset in the middle of the city.

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Color Me RAD Stockholm 2014

Color Me RAD visits Stockholm for a colorful extravaganza and a few friends went on to run the 5K while I snapped some photos.

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The future of (iOS) gaming

Extending the functionality of the iPad using external hardware has been done for a long time, and the most popular addon is probably a real bluetooth keyboard. By adding this piece of hardware, the iPad is immediately transformed from a simple entertainment device to a real productivity tool ((The iPad

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OmniFocus 2 beta - initial impressions

I have been fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to try out the new OmniFocus 2 beta which was released a few days ago. I have been using it intimately since the release, and it has of course given me some impressions as to where the software is

Productivity

Focused distractions

In a world where more than a handful of devices ((I use and receive notifications in my MacBook Air, iPad Mini Retina and iPhone, and I think I'm far from alone with that particular device configuration.)) constantly demand your attention, there is no question that distractions play a vital part

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Recovering unRAID

If you have a server running unRAID [http://lime-technology.com/] you will know that it's usually quite stable and simple to use. When things go wrong however, is where you will need some Linux commands at hand to help you get back on track. Given that unRAID is managed using

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Unread for iPhone Review

Ever since the immensely missed Google Reader service shut down last year, everyone seem to have been scurrying around trying to find a viable alternative. I settled for Feedly [http://feedly.com/], exclusively using their iOS apps. Being an avid RSS user and I find it quite enjoyable when given

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Tracking habits using Omnifocus

I was recently introduced to an iOS application called Lift, which helps you achieve new habits in a social fashion. Enter the habits you wish to track and when completing a habit for the day, just mark it as done to see it disappear only to return the next morning.

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Stockholm Zombie Walk 2012

Once again, Stockholm was filled with zombies roaming the streets.