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There’s an interesting 8min talk by Brian Crain on optimizing productivity. Brian found tracking his progress useful: I learned that having a continuous metric is enormously motivating since it allows you to continually improve yourself. These small, continuous changes make a huge difference over time.
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nvALT sports features which are not so well-known. You can make it work with an image repository to easily include images in your Zettel notes. I don’t make heavy use of the preview at all, but when I do, it’s mostly because I want to take a look at images. For this purpose, I decided to stick to a simple folder structure and customize the preview template to work with it.
I promised to tell you more about what I was doing in the past weeks. I am developing a Mac application. Actually, I work on it since December.
The application I’m working on is a word counter for Mac. I believe that tracking the daily output is useful to stay productive, and I found tallying words written each day is a real booster. Whenever I write, I’m happy to see that the counter increases and that I meet my goals.
This week, I’ve released another app to the App Store: Tapping Test. It’s guiding you through the finger tap test to give hints on cognitive load. You measure your tapping speed and compare it to the last test. If you don’t even come near your past baseline, this can be a sign of overall fatigue.
A Calendar Paste update hit the iOS App Store, in response to a very sound feature suggestion: Display Titles.
User dubble_d pointed out in an App Store review that calendar entries with the same name can’t be distinguished in the template list. Say you have four different kinds of “Team Meeting”, each lasting one hour, but belonging to different calendars or having different notes attached. Until now, Calendar Paste would’ve simply listed these four.
With the current update, you can add your own descriptive title to a template, called Display Title. This way, you can still call your calendar entries “Team Meeting” while showing something else in the event template list. This is especially useful when the event name would’ve been too long to fit on your iPhone’s screen: simply assign a shorter Display Title to see at a glance which event template is which.
It’s a bummer I can’t respond to App Store app reviews in any way. Apple doesn’t provide any customer support mechanisms. So I’ll say it here: Thanks, dubble_d, for the feature suggestion! I think this feature was a great idea.