Month: January 2018

Five years ago I went all-in and migrated my ancient iPhoto library to generic files and folders on disk inside of Dropbox. I wanted something I could access from anywhere, and – perhaps more importantly – was future-proof. I liked this solution so much I started writing a book about it and even made an iPhone app to help me view my library on the go. My library’s structure worked like this… /Photos/ /_Albums/ /2017-12 Aaron’s 4th Birthday Party/ /2017-12 Christmas in Chattanooga/ /2017-11 Thanksgiving in Nashville/ etc… /2018-01/ /2018-01-01 12:45:02.jpg /2018-01-02 02:38:15.jpg etc… /2017-12/ /2017-11/ /2017-10/ etc… That worked …

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I think it was David Allen who said you can do anything you want, but you can’t do everything you want. It’s ironic how an attempt to do everything will actually keep you from doing anything. —Shawn Blanc A few weeks ago, I tweeted that I had reached “OmniFocus Zero”. I pulled up my available tasks one morning only to find that I had nothing to do. That’s not to say that there were no more tasks waiting for me in OmniFocus, it’s just that my Available perspective was empty. I had nothing due that day and no tasks that …

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I’ve always been fascinated with geo technologies and location based services. When I worked for Yahoo!, I was always bugging Tom Coates and Gary Gale about all things geo – including the sadly ahead of its time FireEagle web service. Anyway, for the last two years I’ve been tinkering off and on with an idea of my own – geohooks. They’re webhooks that are triggered based on the location of you, another person, or a combination of multiple people. I’m really happy to announce that https://geohooks.io is now available for people to beta test. You can sign-up for free here: …

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