Recap: 43 Folders' Corvette Summer (2)
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Welcome back, friend. Per what I wrote in your yearbook back in June, I hope you had a nice summer and stayed sweet and cool. You look great. Did you lose weight or something? Somewhere along the way over the past few weeks, I seem to have got my game on again here at 43 Folders. I wrote a few items that I’m proud of and that lots of people seemed to enjoy. I’m once ...
"Right Now, What Are You Doing?" (15)
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Right Now: What Are You Doing? I’ve started to become a lot pickier about where my attention goes as I observe what it means to my work when it drifts. But, I still have a long way to go. Long way. Like a lot of people I have a bad habit of CMD-Clicking tab sets in my browser, which then spawns a dozen or more new panes of potential distraction, pointless horseshit, and 10,000 excuses ...
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Andy said:
this is now set to my homepage
Deciding Whether to Read a Book: Some Wildly Reductive Heuristics (18)
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People send me lots of books, so I have to decide rather quickly whether one should be added to the ambitious pile of stuff I already really want to finish reading. On the off chance that you care or find it useful in developing your own filtering, here’s my insanely reductive, mean-busy-guy way to make a 90-second decision on whether to read a new non-fiction book from an author I’m not familiar with. It does ...
Deciding Whether to Read a Book: Some Wildly Reductive Heuristics | 43 Folders (27)
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People send me lots of books, so I have to decide rather quickly whether one should be added to the ambitious pile of stuff I already really want to finish reading. On the off chance that you care or find it useful in developing your own filtering, here’s my insanely reductive, mean-busy-guy way to make a 90-second decision on whether to read a new non-fiction book from an author I’m not familiar with. It does ...
Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On | 43 Folders (72)
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Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like interface it wants to bring to web
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greenergrad said:
ooooooh.
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Aaron said:
i got to start using this.
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q burns abstract message said:
I'm leaping on the bandwagon. As more than half my work day is spent on Firefox, this add-on is a bit revolutionary for me. Stoked to use it as part of my workflow for the first time tomorrow.
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ABrad45 said:
Quicksilver for Firefox :D
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Michael said:
mind = blown.
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Prashant said:
I need this...
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Meromo said:
Quicksilver for the web..hmmm...
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Dedalus said:
Just watch the video. I don't like the rtf-mail features. TXT only all the way!
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schisamo said:
Install this NOW! Best thing to happen to Firefox since tabbed browsing.
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Philip said:
if you are a firefox/gmail/google calendar user... this add on is a must.takes a few minutes to learn (click the link to the tutorial) but really worth it.
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llopis said:
Wow! Maybe the biggest change in the browser for me since GMarks!
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Eric said:
WOWOWOW
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Nicolas Untz said:
This looks really neat.
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Denver said:
This is amazing. Also, why do people type so loudly in these videos?
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Daniel Bachhuber said:
Holy bejeebas. Here comes the full power of the internet. Or phase two, at least.
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Doogie said:
watch the video. OMG. It'll be a while until I can pick my jaw back up off the floor. The Mozilla Labs RSS feed just made into my Google Reader Feed list because I WANT to know when this project goes gold.
Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On (64)
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Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like interface it wants to bring to web browsing. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. And, like our favorite OS X launcher, Ubiquity also has an ambitious mission: to move beyond onesie-twosie key shortcuts by using user-extensible ...
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ABrad45 said:
Quicksilver for Firefox :D
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q burns abstract message said:
I'm leaping on the bandwagon. As more than half my work day is spent on Firefox, this add-on is a bit revolutionary for me. Stoked to use it as part of my workflow for the first time tomorrow.
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Michael said:
mind = blown.
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Dedalus said:
Just watch the video. I don't like the rtf-mail features. TXT only all the way!
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Meromo said:
Quicksilver for the web..hmmm...
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Prashant said:
I need this...
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Denver said:
This is amazing. Also, why do people type so loudly in these videos?
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Eric said:
WOWOWOW
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Doogie said:
watch the video. OMG. It'll be a while until I can pick my jaw back up off the floor. The Mozilla Labs RSS feed just made into my Google Reader Feed list because I WANT to know when this project goes gold.
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Daniel Bachhuber said:
Holy bejeebas. Here comes the full power of the internet. Or phase two, at least.
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schisamo said:
Install this NOW! Best thing to happen to Firefox since tabbed browsing.
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llopis said:
Wow! Maybe the biggest change in the browser for me since GMarks!
Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button (65)
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PauseJason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” people: That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it appears that
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Ross said:
ha, "specially on a site like FriendFeed, which has quickly become the platform of choice for the web’s least interesting narcissists — and the slow-witted woodland creatures who enjoy grooming their fur — this is a major breakthrough in the makebelieve friendship space."
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Mark R said:
Oh Merlin Mann, you never cease delighting me with your commentary.
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meta said:
"If you need to appear on an Internet list to know you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve." Amen to that.
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Parveen said:
Man, I wish I had a pause button.
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Shane said:
What I wouldn't give for a native, configurable PAUSE on Twitter. Well, I wouldn't give money but the sentiment is the same.
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Ryan said:
kind of interesting approach to dealing with overwhelming data from life streaming.
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Stewtopia said:
"You can pause your newspaper delivery, and the newspaper never complains. Unfortunately most people online haven’t figured out that they’re just another publisher in a crowded space."Now that, is a good idea.
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Michael Kuhn said:
"Jason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” people: That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it appears that you’re paying attention to them when you’re really not. Just like everyone does all the time in real life to maintain their sanity."
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Noah J said:
I could repost Merlin all day.
Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button (45)
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Jason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” people: That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it appears that you’re paying attention to them when you’re really not. Just like everyone does all the time in real life to maintain their sanity. As duplicitous and sad as “fake following” sounds — and let’s be honest: the whole ...
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Michael Kuhn said:
"Jason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” people: That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it appears that you’re paying attention to them when you’re really not. Just like everyone does all the time in real life to maintain their sanity."
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Noah J said:
I could repost Merlin all day.
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Parveen said:
Man, I wish I had a pause button.
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Shane said:
What I wouldn't give for a native, configurable PAUSE on Twitter. Well, I wouldn't give money but the sentiment is the same.
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meta said:
"If you need to appear on an Internet list to know you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve." Amen to that.
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Ryan said:
kind of interesting approach to dealing with overwhelming data from life streaming.
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Stewtopia said:
"You can pause your newspaper delivery, and the newspaper never complains. Unfortunately most people online haven’t figured out that they’re just another publisher in a crowded space."Now that, is a good idea.
Video: Merlin's New Time & Attention Talk (4)
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Macworld ‘08: Merlin Mann / “Living with Data” Last month, I premiered a new presentation at Macworld San Francisco 2008 called “Living with Data” (previously). Since this talk was part of the “Vision” track, I used the opportunity to start gathering some threads around the idea of time and attention that had been floating around my head for a while (I think you can see the genesis of some of this stuff in my IDEO ...
43 Folders: Best of GTD (8)
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NPR: Tech Junkies Crazy About ‘Getting Things Done’ As an insufferably huge public broadcasting nerd, I was happy to hear (via our pal, Ryan) that 43 Folders was mentioned in tonight’s All Things Considered story about Getting Things Done. Since this may be the first time some folks have visited the site, I wanted to highlight a few of my favorite GTD posts from the past four years. We talk about lots more than GTD ...
Admin: Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items? (8)
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Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items? We’ve added a footer to items that appear in the 43 Folders RSS feed. Here’s why. The 43 Folders feed is a popular way for people to keep up with what’s happening on our site. If you’re not sure what we mean by “feed,” we’re talking about things like “Atom” and “RSS,” which are open standards that allow you to subscribe to a syndication feed that displays ...
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Note to YR team (who don't read thsi but still)... we need to do this.
Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work (31)
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Psychology Today: The Creative Personality [via delicious.com/huxant, w/a reminder by Jack Shedd] Some days, I can’t decide how I feel about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say: “chick SENT me high”). He’s written some great stuff, but, sometimes, he mixes Big-Word academicspeak with anecdotal observation in a way that smells a little hokey to me. So, although I’m trying not to audibly roll my eyes at a pop-psychology Top 10 list about creativity’s “dialectical tension,” I definitely am ...
