What's lingering on your phone?
I don't know about you, but where I am, it's cold. Really, really cold. Winter feels like it's finally here. This month, as the
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Tidy Tuesday
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Wait, it's Wednesday?
It's the week of the Thanksgiving here, with lots going on and day-to-day activities feeling a bit different. ...different enough that I made it to Wednesday
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Action requires clarity
I found myself distracted by some rather major (but positive) life events unfolding during the last week or two, and digital organization tasks have ended up on the back burner.
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Make starting easy
It's frigid where I live in southwestern Virginia today. Monday and Tuesday have had below-freezing temperatures and even worse wind chill because of a huge cold front
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Why are you keeping this stuff?
One of the most important questions to ask when organizing your data is: why am I keeping this stuff? This applies just as much to physical stuff in the real
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Proof-of-concept organizer app
Those of you following along for the last few weeks know about my plan to help my mom migrate her significant Microsoft Word document collection (which is mostly notes) to
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A real notes migration conundrum
This week took an unexpected turn. Remember how I was going to walk through the migration process from Word into Craft? Here's what happened. I signed up for
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Writing for yourself, or someone else?
A few nights ago, one of my kids asked for a printout of some things he wanted to take with him into his bed to study and memorize. (No joke.
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Breaking up with Word documents
I'll tell you about my Q4 2025 Consistency Challenge project down below near the end of this post. But fist, want to do some eye-opening math with
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Shifting gears
Before I get into today's topic, I wanted to share an article I stumbled upon late last week, which was an interesting follow-up to what I wrote
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The $500k advice I keep ignoring
I'm writing this from my slightly-too-warm office (the afternoon sun hits this side of the house mercilessly and the HVAC unit servicing this area is 20
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When "better" still feels like a mess
I'm sitting here looking at my desktop with 24 tabs spread across multiple open browser windows and a to-do list that will only be empty by the
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