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Posted by Jeffery Smith
Feb 7, 2019 at 03:14 PM
Beck,
You are using Morning Pages [the app], or Morning Pages [the practice]?
Jeff
Beck wrote:
Fun topic, Jake. :)
>
>1. Brainstorming : Good ol’ fashioned whiteboard, GoodNotes, Workflowy
>(happy)*
>2a. Random Notetaking : Bullet Journal, GoodNotes (happy)
>2b. Intentional Notetaking : Tinderbox (happy)
>3. Scheduling : Fantastical (wish for something more
>elegant/spacious/accommodating of time blocking)
>4. Task Management : Omnifocus 3 w/Bullet Journal for capture and
>TaskPaper for weekly planning (imperfect, but works well enough)
>5. Thought Processing : Tinderbox, Morning Pages
>6. Knowledge Archive : DevonThink
>7. Project Knowledge : Project Memos in Google Docs, Task Paper, in some
>ways OF3 (could use a better system here)
>
>8. Mail: MailMate (very happy)
>9a. Writing: Currently unhappy and searching (considering Scrivener,
>Ulysses, Mellel, have used… everything)
>9b. Editing: Hemingway (happy)
>10. Reference: Paperpile (considering Bookends despite Pp’s elegance b/c
>#9)
>
>11. Reading: DevonThink To Go (happy cause of sync to DTPO, but like
>GoodNotes and LiquidText a lot, too)
>12. Grading: Annotated GoodNotes PDFs uploaded to Canvas (can’t stand
>Canvas of course, but otherwise happy w/this)
>
>* Anyone else wish CMapTools wasn’t so darn… pixelated? Darn retina
>displays.
Posted by Beck
Feb 7, 2019 at 04:17 PM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
>You are using Morning Pages [the app], or Morning Pages [the practice]?
Good question! I’m using the practice. I’ve used 750words.com before, but have determined handwriting is best for me. My go to paper is Clairefontaine Triomphe (lined) and has been for many years, but just this week I started experimenting with writing them on GoodNotes 5 since their writing stationery template is much improved than v4.
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Feb 7, 2019 at 04:31 PM
I’ll try the handwritten version or may decide to use my FreeWrite keyboard as it has no distractions and I can do it before the office opens at 8:00 AM.
Posted by Beck
Feb 7, 2019 at 05:31 PM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
>or may decide to use my FreeWrite
How have you found the FreeWrite? I’ve been quite disappointed in it, but am open to some sort of shift in expectations that’ll get me using mine.
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Feb 7, 2019 at 06:22 PM
It is a mixture of good and bad. I have found the software in it to be quirky and less than reliable. It definitely excels at freewriting as it is difficult to do any sort of editing. I liked the tactile keyboards of the mid-1980s (IBM PC), but others would find it distracting in the office, so I put those little rubber o-rings on the keys.
For me, it is the closest thing to distraction-free writing. It is too expensive, but all of the competition is either just in Japan, or discontinued.
Beck wrote:
Jeffery Smith wrote:
>>or may decide to use my FreeWrite
>
>How have you found the FreeWrite? I’ve been quite disappointed in it,
>but am open to some sort of shift in expectations that’ll get me using
>mine.