When I need to prepare a presentation to explain a solution, what takes most of my time is usually not the content itself but finding the icon sets, stock photos, diagrams and so on to visualize that content. Before starting a presentation, I usually sketch a rough outline in a blank text file, something like cover introduction what is it? examples references.
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I haven't felt like writing in a long time, and once again there's friction at the very start. I want to write something, but I also want the content to be complete, the writing to be correct, the images to look good, everything to be tidy, the page to load fast, and so on... and by then I have neither the time nor the energy left to actually write.
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As a professional who believes in lifelong learning, I think the techniques of drawing conclusions and taking notes while researching contribute a great deal to effective learning. In this post I want to tell you about Obsidian, an app I've recently started using for effective notetaking and data collection. Put very simply, Obsidian is a notetaking app.
Read more..In my earlier post I wrote about ebook readers and the Kindle. In this post I'll explain how you can read the Medium publications and articles you want to follow on your Kindle. I should mention that I learned this method from "Read Medium on your Kindle", another post on Medium.
Read more..One of the blogs I follow closely for Apple products and app reviews on iOS and OS X is MacSparky. David Sparks, who usually covers new products and apps on his blog, regularly publishes interviews about the home screens of iPhone and iPad users. Introducing apps through people's actual experience, rather than going through apps one by one with screenshots and feature lists, felt much more pract…
Read more..As the title makes clear, I'll show you a practical way to convert cameras' own RAW file formats to JPG. As you may know, the RAW format, favored especially by DSLR users, saves the image that hits the sensor straight from memory to storage, without any compression or correction. These files are in NEF format on Nikon cameras, while Canon cameras usually store them on the card with a CRW extensi…
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The people close to me know very well how obsessive I am about backups. I'd like to share my experience with ChronoSync and a practical way of backing up. ChronoSync As someone who has been burned before, I've used many different backup programs and devices over the years.
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I'll admit I'm not a frequent reader. Whenever I find time to read, I either end up reading blogs online or browsing videos that catch my interest. I think this is one of the downsides of living everything in a "concentrated" and "fast" way today: getting by on "summaries" instead of making time for long paragraphs and descriptions.
Read more..In the Turkish version of this post's title I used "İşleri Yoluna Koyma" — "putting things on track" — a Turkish name for GTD that I made up myself. These days everything is so fast and so urgent. Something arriving as urgent no longer makes it a priority; even working out how much of a priority it is compared to the "urgent tasks" that came before it has become a job of its own.
Read more..Anyone who keeps a film, series or music archive knows that an organized system is essential for finding what you want when you want it. The interface you use to browse that archive matters a lot too, and everyone has a routine they've shaped for themselves or grown used to. When it comes to archiving films, one of the simplest methods is a hierarchical folder structure: You can even add "genre"…
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