Sticky TOC engaged! Do not remove this! And then Notational Velocity came along and changed everything. I'm going to try to explain the application, how I use it, and how it's changed my life, but you're really going to be better off skipping all of that and just trying it for yourself. Go ahead, I…

There's been a lot of talk about a seven-inch "iPad mini" over the last 18 months or so. The rumors, while compelling to many, never really resonated with me, and I've dismissed them countless times in the past. After all, what possible strategic reason could Apple have to offer such a thing? It's…

2×4: One series that examines two topics, creativity and productivity, by asking those who make things on the web the same four questions on both subjects. We all want to change our circumstances; we want to make more money or get a better job. For most of us, it’s simply a fantasy, something we’ll…

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You can’t throw a rock at the iTunes and Mac App Stores without hitting a minimalistic writing app. If you do a lot of writing, I see no reason not to find an application that has been built to best suit your needs as a writer. Sure, you can scribble something down on the back of a cocktail napkin…

My buddy, Shawn Blanc is a fan of Byword — has been for a while now. It was because of him that I tried Byword to begin with. But when iA Writer came out I wrote this about the two apps : The difference between Writer and Byword is very, very significant. Writer has zero preferences and while Byword…

Sir Jonathan Ive, Jony to his friends, is arguably one of the world’s most influential Londoners. The 45-year-old was born in Chingford — and went to the same school as David Beckham. He met his wife, Heather Pegg, while in secondary school. They married in 1987, have twin sons and now live in San…

Today I realized that to publish this website the way I want to requires much more time behind the scenes than I originally thought. This is not because I underestimated the sleep I would lose while spending my time writing, but because I didn’t discover the kind of writing that makes me want to do…

This is me, thinking out loud about my writing. There is writing, and then there is Writing . And I am amazed at how often I will shy away from the former because it doesn’t feel like the latter. There are times when I put far too much emphasis on the fine-tuned components of writing, and not nearly…

One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “ Baka malamig doon ” were among the few words she said. (“It might be cold there.”) When I arrived at the Philippines ’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, my aunt and a family friend,…