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Outlines vs. Mind Maps @MacSparky
David Sparks on outlining vs. mind mapping:
Both tools are good at taking a bunch of inputs and letting you organize them later. For me, the distinction is all about chaos and order. Specifically, where outlines are best for taking generally organized information and making it more organized, mind maps are all about taming chaos.
I’m definitely an outline guy. It’s just how my brain works, linear bulleted thinking more than a visual representation of my ideas.
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The Nonprofit Productivity Summit begins today #nonprofitsummit
Beginning the Nonprofit Productivity Summit
I joined more for the productivity side than the Nonprofit view, and mainly because of David Sparks, Mike Vardy and David Allen.
Not sure about the religious point of view in the introduction, but well, I guess it’s the religious nature of the States. Best regards from secular Europe.
I’m sure I’m going to learn a lot, I’ll try to share.
#nonprofitsummit
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TextExpander via MacSparky
TextExpander (Sponsor) MacSparky
The beauty of TextExpander is the snippet will automatically type my assistant’s email address, press tab, put in the the same email subject line, press tab, and fill in a general template for the body of the email. The cursor is ready for me and placed right where I need to start typing the new information for the week. I use Keyboard Maestro alongside TextExpander to automate email.
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MacSparky and Shortcuts for Mac
MacSparky:
Put simply, Shortcuts for Mac is in limbo right now. The good news is that it is improving a lot in the betas and every sign we can see from the outside points to the fact that the Shortcuts Team is aware of these issues and working on them. My experience is being quite good. It’s true that I only use a couple of Shortcuts in Mac, but they’re quite complex (one of them finds due items in Omnifocus and sends them to my calendar; the other one runs javascript to convert numbers into letters) and they’re working fine.
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MacSparky and Shortcuts for Mac
MacSparky:
Put simply, Shortcuts for Mac is in limbo right now. The good news is that it is improving a lot in the betas and every sign we can see from the outside points to the fact that the Shortcuts Team is aware of these issues and working on them. My experience is being quite good. It’s true that I only use a couple of Shortcuts in Mac, but they’re quite complex (one of them finds due items in Omnifocus and sends them to my calendar; the other one runs javascript to convert numbers into letters) and they’re working fine.
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Trying Markdown from Mars Edit
So this is a post written in plain text, using markdown syntax, that I hope renders properly when published in micro.blog.
Unordered list item 1 Unordered list item 2 This is a link to my main-original-soon-to-be-replaced blog
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New post from the micro.blog web editor. The one before did not show up in Twitter, let’s see if this one does.
Update (2021-12-07): Great, it worked seamlessly. Both posts showed up in Twitter, so I think I found my workflow. Long form legal posts will go to umerez.eu at Squarespace, and short legal and productivity/geek posts will go to microblog.umerez.eu at micro.blog.
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I intend to write about the tricks and hacks I use to have my computer help me do the work.
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Great chance to write in English.
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Hello, micro world.