It has been a month since I read The Secret to Digital Sanity by Shelley Hayduk, one of PersonalBrain’s regular authors. In the article she discusses the difference between capture tools such a PersonalBrain or Evernote and flow tools of which twitter and facebook are examples. The latter two deliver information not designed to be [...]
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If I’ve ever forgotten your birthday I’m sorry. Remembering them is something I don’t do all that well. Even when I remember I have slim chance of knowing how old you are. But now, thanks to Occassions on my iPhone, I should never miss your birthday again — assuming of course that I know it in [...]
Over the last two weeks I’ve been heavily involved in home maintenance on some of our home computers. This has included replacing hard drives, re-installing multiple operating systems and reconfiguring wireless networks. The exercise highlighted to me the importance of dealing with breakdowns. Now, I’m sure for most people the word breakdown has a negative [...]
I’m churning internet providers from Comcen to Bigpond (we were going to stay with Comcen but they don’t have the ports for ADSL2+ on my sub-exchange). Anyway as part of the deal Bigpond have sent me a wireless router at no cost. I thought great, a single unit to replace my current dlink wireless router/adsl [...]
I had one of those conversations you’d rather not have with someone at work. They asked, “What did we decide about…?” and my honest response was, “I don’t know. I can’t even remember the conversation”. Neither of us could recall with any accuracy what was discussed. That’s a waste of their time and mine. That [...]
I’ve been using Dropbox to sync my PersonalBrain between multiple computers for a few weeks now. Dropbox copies files via the internet. As long as you follow the rule of ensuring you’re not running two copies of PB simultaneously — in other words, let the sync finish before firing up PersonalBrain— it’s robust. Keep up [...]
Google, you can have the lot. And I give it willingly. First you helped me with a simple and fast search engine. This was followed up by the wonder of Google Earth and then Google Maps. Some other bits and pieces with Feedburner and Webmaster tools, then Google Reader last week took over from Feeddemon. [...]
I run my Getting Things Done (GTD) system using PersonalBrain as my primary tool. Using Tags for contexts and a Thought Type for dates I’m easily able to model an online tickler file. Tickler files are used to remind you of things in the future — in the future so that you can forget about [...]
If you found your Facebook friends suddenly not doing anything i.e., you no longer see their updates in your News Feed, then this is the solution. Are You Missing Your Friends Important Facebook Status Updates? | Facebook Profile Customization and User Lifestyles Blog. It only took me a couple of minutes to set up a [...]
