• Evernote nearly doubles in price
    Wow. That’s a price hike. My Evernote subscription jumped from $63.99/year to $113.99/year. Last year people have been complaining about the price hike, I was getting prepared to leave Evernote, but then I checked my subscription price, and saw it…
  • Does a paper’s quality affect how you use it — and how creative you are?
    A friend, Leigh Hanlon, shared a post with me on Facebook with the question: “Does a paper’s quality affect how you use it — and how creative you are?“ An interesting notion. Does cheaper paper allow you to be more…
  • Thoughts on starting a digital garden
    Years ago, I loved Mike Caulfield’s explanation of how many internet platforms today are streams, not gardens. This concept re-emerged in this tweet today. This is inspiring me to make my own digital garden. As I said in my twitter…
  • The Spudart Notepad
    A new section on Spudart.org for ideas I’m building a place on spudart.org for my quick thoughts and beginning ideas. This will be public place on the site for anyone to see. I have so many unpublished ideas that never…
  • Do you keep a diary? Or a life log?
    Do you keep a daily diary? I have a couple questions for you: Length: Do you keep it really short? Or do you write longer form? Medium: Where do you write it? In a physical notebook? Or maybe online in…
  • Starting up a one-line diary
    Every day write one line summarizing that day. I call it the one-line diary. Easy to update. Easy to read. Easy to update Longer journals can be daunting to write. Bullet journals can be intense with all their code and…
  • How I built up 901 unpublished blog drafts
    Ever run out of ideas for what to write about? My cousin Peter was experiencing writers block for his blog. Here’s how to build up a list of ideas to write about. 1. Keep ALL your blog drafts in one…
  • Use Google docs or Evernote for blog drafts?
    Where do you keep your blog drafts? I have a single Google doc for blog drafts. It has 41,558 words. It takes about 30 seconds to save. I’m gonna try Evernote again. I’m gonna take that huge blog drafts doc…