In the previous weeks, I have been creating 1-minute tutorial videos. I make them within one minute to fit the my Instagram. I make it one minute also because I have been procrastinating to make my screencast videos for, literally, a decade. I bought the Screenflow software in 2010. I planned to use it to record tutorials on how to use...

I have been using the iPad for 11 years, since 2010 April using the original iPad. By the way, it also marked my 11 years into iOS development, where I published my first iPad game on iPad debut. I have been on and off using the iPad for handwriting. And for most of the time, I found myself enjoying more using fountain pen on real pape...

Originally, I managed 3 focus sessions per day. I mentioned this in my newsletter 2020 week 49. I divide every day into 2 morning sessions and 1 afternoon session. Occasionally, I have teaching session in the evening. Or a meeting in the evening. That counts as the 4th focus session of the day. Time wheel to visualize my focus session ...

My BMI reached the range of 24.9 to 25.6 in the last month. It is at the upper bound of normal weight and the lower bound of overweight. I told my situation to my friends and they immediately invited me to join their running club. So I bought a pair of running shoes on Monday and had two running sessions on Tuesday and Friday evening. ...

This week, I’m trying a new Roam-like service called Hypernotes. It is built by the Zenkit team from Germany. It follows the outline and graph features from Roam, which #hashtag and [[backet link]] creates a new page automatically. There are also back-links which I’ve mentioned its benefits in email 2020w52. I know that I should stick ...

I am in an experiment to use email to write to myself for a Private Thoughts blog. I use the email compose to write what’s in my mind. Then I send them to an email address that’s dedicated for collecting my blog posts. If I write an email per day to my Private Thoughts blog. That’d be 365 posts per year. More than enough for me to cura...

I have repeated patterns seasonally every year. For instance, my end of July and the beginning of August were always super busy. My October and November are friends gathering seasons. Speaking of pattern, my real year often starts in March. January and February were often passed without any notable things done. The reason is the Chines...

I send email newsletter (almost) every week. In each email, there are 4 parts. 1. What I’m working on lately. 2. A productivity tips or thoughts on web technologies. 3. Links I collected throughout the week. Mostly in web, accessibility, development, and productivity tips and tricks. 4. Occasionally there are code worth sharing, inspir...