Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “lifehacks”

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Earth Class Mail

Basically an online P.O. box; they'll scan & shred mail sent to a snail mail address. Kinda expensive, but sounds awesome.

(lifehacks, mail, office, paperless, pdf, postal, productivity, scanning, services, tools)

OpenSignals: Videos: DEVONthink Pro Office 1.5 for the Mac

Some videos of a ScanSnap/DEVONthink workflow. Dunno if I want to shell out for DEVONthink, but this looks pretty sweet.

(lifehacks, paperless, scansnap, video, workflow)

Palimpsest: the guide to a (mostly) paperless life | 43 Folders

I just got a ScanSnap (woo!) and now I need to figure out the best way to use it. This might fit my needs, but more likely I'll end up writing some Django app to manage all the documents.

(lifehacks, productivity, scanner, scansnap, workflow)

My Bad Habits: Good Conferencing Habits: Or, How I Learned to Have Fun and Still Get Some Sleep

Conferences are a game, too; some good tips to doing well. I especially like the “accept the first dinner invitation” rule.

(conferences, lifehacks)

Mike Davidson: A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es

Really, really tempting.

(culture, email, lifehacks, writing)

Onlife

“…observes your every interaction with app … then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more.”

(apple, database, for:mcroydon, lifehacks, monitoring, tracking, virtualmemory)

URBAN SONAR | how it works

“Personal space detection for urban environments”

(arduino, lifehacks, via:mcroydon, virtualmemory)

ONLamp.com: Keeping Your Life in Subversion

I'd love to get something like this worked out — but how would it handle the fact that I work on different OSes?

(lifehacks, svn)