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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…
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…
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…
PGP is a popular1 way to send secure messages. It is however quite difficult to get started and to know what everything means. Since most people aren’t cryptography experts, it’s hard to get going and use it every day.
The best PGP tutorial for Mac OS X is a tutorial to change the technical hurdle required to get started, and makes encrypting and decrypting messages super simple.
There is just one thing that the article fails to mention. While using keyboard shortcuts are great for power users, they can be quite daunting for others, and are easily forgettable. There is however an easy way to access the shortcuts using the mouse as well. Like before, select the text you want to encrypt or decrypt, right-click and choose “Services” and you will see all relevant actions with the “OpenPGP:” prefix. Just select the action you want to perform and it takes care of the rest.
If you want to try it out, you are welcome to send me an email to my first name @ my last name dot se.
I use the term “popular” loosely here, since although it’s quite popular in the tech crowd, its quirky setup and confusing usage has made it less appealing for “normal” people. ↩
David Allen recently held a TEDx presentation in Amsterdam on the Natural Planning Model called Getting in control and creating space , and why it has such a big impact in getting projects going and actually finished. If you are…
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…
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…
Work in the same Lightroom environment on multiple Macs using Dropbox.
What to do now that Aperture has been discontinued.
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 plugin alerted me about my…
I am a big fan of Trello and I like the way it lets you design your own workflow in any way you want. It’s strengths also have a dark side to them — it can be hard to nail down a specific workflow and sticking to it, since there are no enforcements of any kind.
Opbeat seem to have nailed a pretty good development workflow using Trello and is well worth a read.
Sara Rosso writes about her experiences working remotely at Automattic.
I believe that this way of working will be increasingly popular as time goes by. Instead of wasting lots of time commuting and conforming to normal office hours, one will be able to work when and how works best.
