Withings getting acquired, and the brand merging in with Nokia, makes me worry about my Withings products. 😕
Looking up.
Beef tenderloin on the Big Green Egg tonight.
Asparagus too for the steak. Big Green Egg makes everything delicious.
Put the archive of the Open Loop podcast that Garrick Van Buren and I did in 2012 back online. Fun stuff. Lot’s of Kubb. 👍🏻
Monument Valley 2 is really nice. High quality puzzle game.
OmniFocus Tip: Using Context Notifications
I use OmniFocus as the core of my GTD system. I also keep notifications on my phone to a minimum, including for OmniFocus. OmniFocus on iOS has the ability to give you a notification when you enter or leave a context with a location. This is pretty handy and I’ve used it for some specific locations associated with my Errands context. Errands : Hardware store gives me a nudge if I am nearby and have tasks available. I’ve never used this feature with Home and Office contexts because it would be very noisy.
There are times however when I would like OmniFocus to be in my face at home or at the office. I may have a task in OmniFocus that I need to do when I get to work on Monday morning, or when I come home on Friday evening and a notification would help. I realized there is a really simple solution to this.
I have a Office context, and inside that context I created a Office with notification context. The context with notification has a location and notification with it.
Now I can easily put a very small number of tasks in the Office : Office with notificaiton context and know I will be notified when they are avialable. I’ve created a similar context for Home with notificaiton. This has already allowed me to not forget a couple of time sensitive things.
Nice evening in the neighborhood.
Attending my first GTD workshop today. Have been doing GTD for a long time and am looking to reinforce and deepen core concepts.
The David Lynch Documentary Kickstarter I backed in April 2012 with a delivery in May 2013 may finally get to me in June 2017! Better 4 years late than never? 🙃
Good morning espresso! ☕️
Thinking in Decades
This week I worked with Yahoo! customer support and deleted my Flickr account. I had deleted my Yahoo! account a couple of months ago when they had their second massive security notice of compromised accounts. When I got a notice letting me know that the Privacy Policy for Flickr was changing in association with the sale to Verizon I wanted to delete my account. I have no interest in Verizon hosting my photos, and frankly I don’t use Flickr anymore.
That was when I realized I had no way to access my Flickr account since the Yahoo! account was used to connect to it. I was happy thought that Yahoo! customer support was quick and made this easy to get done.
My Flickr account is no more now. I created that account probably a decade ago. Long before it ever became part of Yahoo!, back when Flickr was amazing and cool. Looking back this is a good reminder of how long our content lives online. Yet another example of how companies come and go and services come and go. To all of you using Facebook to keep family photos and pictures of your kids, think about this. This is why I feel so strongly about owning my content. It really isn’t that hard.
SiriKit supports tasks and OmniFocus 2 is on the slide? Yes please! 😍
Apple Pay person-to-person is going to be very significant. Opens up a lot of potentials and nice implementation right inside iMessage.
iMac Pro is impressive! Amazing specs that I doubt I could tax, but I sure want one… 😍
Music Tornado!
Hula Hoop!
Sunset over Lake Harriet on a great day.
Mess-o-Bikes!
Family walk down Minnehaha to Mississippi River.
