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Do you need to pay for Todoist?

With the loss of a day job meant taking a hard look at my monthly outgoings and figuring out what can be dropped, the non essentials. Whilst some might say a monthly fee for your productivity app is essential, for me paying the electricity bills are more important. I’d been using Todoist for a fewContinue reading “Do you need to pay for Todoist?”

Why I can’t recommend using Medium for your writing

I’ve been trying Medium for a day and I think I’m already done with it. I signed up for a free trial and wrote a few posts but I think it’s already giving me anxiety. Let’s get the good stuff out of the way. The writing experience is very good, I like the clean editorContinue reading “Why I can’t recommend using Medium for your writing”

Is blogging in decline?

I still write here on my blog because I want to get things out of my head and into a form that I enjoy but I see a lot of others taking the move into video, podcasts or dropping their blog completely. I’ve tried video back in 2008 and whilst I gained some small successesContinue reading “Is blogging in decline?”

12 apps

Looking at my setup I’ve realised that it’s only really 12 apps that I use on my iPhone these days. I’ve been sorting out my devices to help distract me less and I’m trying my best to only really check in on places like Twitter once or twice a week. I purged my iPhone ofContinue reading “12 apps”

An open world Star Wars game – Yes please

Wow, this is great news as a massive Star Wars fan and gamer. I love open world games and am currently working my way through Red Dead Redemption II in an attempt to finally finish the story instead of getting side tracked, but this is what I love most about open world games. Yeah I’dContinue reading “An open world Star Wars game – Yes please”

The next iPad Mini Wish List

If you’ve been following along with my setup you’ll know that I’ve dropped the iPad Pro and switched to using my 12″ MacBook and an iPad Mini. I’m still getting to grips with it all but enjoying the more streamlined setup. Now I’m using the Mini as my iPad I do have some wants thoughContinue reading “The next iPad Mini Wish List”

How often should you post to substack?

I think I’ve misunderstood how Substack works or I should say how you should treat it. At the beginning I thought it could replace some of my daily posts but the more I thought about it, it’s a newsletter – I should really post to it weekly rather than as and when I think ofContinue reading “How often should you post to substack?”

Giving Substack a try

I’ve been writing here for years and fancied giving something else a try for my writing both as a change but to also learn a few new skills along the way, so I’ve created a SUBSTACK to share my thoughts for a bit. Here’s the link to my SUBSTACK page. Let me know what youContinue reading “Giving Substack a try”

Sticking with what works

Sticking with what works is something that I need to constantly remind myself. This applies to everything from my watch, my tech and even my apps. Learning new apps or playing with a new device is fun but takes me down a path of distraction. The most recent example with gear was picking up aContinue reading “Sticking with what works”