- Anchoring my thoughts with a sketch - Sep 14, 2025
- Writing into the quiet - Sep 8, 2025
- Considering these monthly emoji summaries - Sep 5, 2025
- My Emacs writing experience - Jul 26, 2025
- Finding the shape of my thoughts - Jul 23, 2025
- Working on the plumbing in a small web community - May 31, 2025
- Adding subheadings and sketches to my blog page navigation - Apr 3, 2025
- Using Emacs Lisp to batch-demote HTML headings for my static site - Apr 3, 2025
- Moving 18 years of comments out of Disqus and into my 11ty static site - Mar 30, 2025
- Old-school blogger - Mar 20, 2025
- Playing with chunk size when writing - Mar 19, 2025
- Reading more blogs; Emacs Lisp: Listing blogs based on an OPML file - Mar 19, 2025
- Through blogging, we discover our thoughts and other people - Jan 30, 2025
- Looking at my blog post stats by year - Nov 18, 2024
- Thinking about webpage margins - Nov 7, 2024
- How do I want to get better at learning out loud? Part 1 of 4: Starting - Nov 6, 2024
- How to Take Smart Notes - Sonke Ahrens (2017) - Oct 28, 2024
- Organizing my visual book notes by topic - Oct 25, 2024
- Added a gallery and slideshow view for my visual book notes - Oct 23, 2024
- Adding an XSL stylesheet for my RSS and Atom feeds - Jan 13, 2024
- Working with the flow of ideas - Dec 30, 2023
- Thinking about how to reinvest the Google Open Source Peer Bonus - Dec 22, 2023
- Fixing my old ambiguous sketch references - Jan 13, 2023
- Moving my Org post subtree to the 11ty directory - Jan 9, 2023
- Tweaking my writing workflow using SuperNote's new handwriting recognition - Jan 8, 2023
- Using Javascript to add a "Copy code" link to source code blocks in my blog posts - Jan 7, 2023
- Compiling selected blog posts into HTML and EPUB so I can annotate them - Jan 4, 2023
- Writing my blog posts by hand - Aug 2, 2022
- Statically generating my blog with Eleventy - Apr 15, 2021
- Sharing more of my discretionary time - Apr 11, 2021
- Python, Org Mode, and writing Org tables to CSVs so that I can read them back - Oct 27, 2019
- Making books for A- - Mar 3, 2018
- Daily, weekly, and monthly journals: my Memento + Google Sheets + Tasks Free + Google Tasks + WordPress workflow - Dec 6, 2017
- What do I want to think through when writing on my phone? - Jan 20, 2017
- What do I want from an annual review? - Jan 12, 2017
- Thinking about my frequency of annual reviews - Jan 11, 2017
- Posting more thoughts - Jan 9, 2017
- Fixed paragraph breaks in WordPress, no more wall of text - Dec 29, 2016
- What do I want from my review process? - Jan 4, 2016
- Working with fragmented thoughts - Jun 17, 2015
- What do I want instead of or in addition to advice roundups? - May 18, 2015
- Shifts in my writing - May 14, 2015
- Squirrel brain - Apr 13, 2015
- Getting better at writing other-directed posts - Mar 10, 2015
- Sketched Book: Write Faster, Write Better – David A. Fryxell - Mar 2, 2015
- Help your readers discover more posts by organizing your content with a reverse outline - Feb 12, 2015
- Envy and other people’s writing - Feb 10, 2015
- Clear out your drafts by scheduling Minimum Viable Posts - Feb 5, 2015
- Meta-post: Revising my post on emptying one’s cup - Feb 3, 2015
- Learning from artists: making studies of ideas - Feb 2, 2015
- Writing: Open loops, closed loops, and working with forgetfulness - Jan 27, 2015
- Breaking down the skill of outlining - Jan 20, 2015
- Drawing thoughts on index cards - Jan 17, 2015
- Think more effectively by typing to yourself - Jan 15, 2015
- Deliberately making sense - Jan 13, 2015
- Predictable advice about productivity - Jan 8, 2015
- Start your titles with a verb to make them stronger; or reflections on titles, filler phrases, and my life as a gerund - Dec 30, 2014
- Making personal blogs useful for other people too - Dec 23, 2014
- Figuring out what to read by figuring out what you want to become or make or do - Dec 19, 2014
- Building a better time machine - Dec 12, 2014
- Thinking about word counts and chunks - Nov 24, 2014
- Keeping a process journal - Nov 21, 2014
- Publishing WordPress thumbnail images using Emacs and Org2Blog - Oct 31, 2014
- Questionnaires from people - Oct 8, 2014
- Tweaking the way I write - Aug 26, 2014
- Writing incomplete thoughts - Aug 6, 2014
- Learning from things I like: Books about applying advice to your life - Jul 22, 2014
- Thinking about how virtual assistants can help me with learning and writing - Mar 26, 2014
- Sketchnotes 2013 in print, yay! - Mar 25, 2014
- More notes on managing a large blog archive: 17 things I do to handle 10+ years of blog posts - Mar 4, 2014
- Reflections on infopreneurship - Feb 27, 2014
- A No Excuses Guide to Blogging (PDF, EPUB, MOBI – free!); also, notes on publishing - Feb 13, 2014
- How to develop your ideas into blog posts - Feb 5, 2014
- A no-excuses guide to blogging - Feb 4, 2014
- Stepping up to publishing - Feb 3, 2014
- A conversation about writing, and reflections on taskmasters - Jan 28, 2014
- Dealing with feeling scattered as a writer - Jan 8, 2014
- Daily blogging and different interests - Dec 25, 2013
- Pens are not the limiting factor for writing - Dec 18, 2013
- Update: Developing thoughts further - Dec 5, 2013
- How I organize and publish my sketches - Nov 1, 2013
- Integrating visual outlining into my writing process - Oct 31, 2013
- I don’t write about everything; How do you manage your private notes? - Oct 30, 2013
- Jetpack subscribers: Terribly sorry about the test posts! Disabling, please use Feedburner to subscribe instead - Oct 23, 2013
- Growing this blog - Oct 18, 2013
- Test what you know by sharing - Oct 9, 2013
- Blogging tip: Test your ideas and get more feedback in order to make your posts better - Oct 2, 2013
- The learning machine: How I turn what I learn into blog posts - Sep 25, 2013
- Poll: Planning a weekly topic-focused blog – what would you like to read more about? - Sep 24, 2013
- When I blog with Emacs and when I blog with other tools - Sep 16, 2013
- Balancing writing with other things - Sep 13, 2013
- Reorganizing WordPress categories with Term Management Tools and other tweaks - Sep 9, 2013
- 4 steps to a better blog by planning your goals and post types - Sep 4, 2013
- Write about what you don’t know: 5 tips to help you do research for your blog - Aug 23, 2013
- My next delegation experiment: coaching and editing - Aug 21, 2013
- Learning how to work with stock photos: Can you help me? - Aug 16, 2013
- Writing, drawing, and coding while tired - Aug 13, 2013
- Planning what to do at home, thinking about pull-driven systems for blog posts, and outlining books I want to write - Aug 5, 2013
- How to manage a large blog archive - Jul 31, 2013
- I still don’t know what to call this post - Jul 24, 2013
- Visual book review: The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast (Josh Kaufman) - Jul 15, 2013
- Quick question: What would you prefer for shorter URLs? - Jun 24, 2013
- Getting to know people who read this blog–hooray for hangout experiment #1! - Jun 20, 2013
- Web experiments this week: Webinar on “How to Improve Your Visual Thinking” and a Google Hangout on blogging; would love to connect with you! - Jun 17, 2013
- Getting started with blogging when no one’s reading - Jun 12, 2013
- Using Google’s In-Page Analytics to understand how people use a site - Jun 5, 2013
- On blogging and platforms, and experimenting with Google Hangout - May 31, 2013
- How I use Feedburner to give people the option of different blog update frequencies - May 21, 2013
- Thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go with this blog - May 17, 2013
- Poll: How often would you like to receive e-mail updates? Also, quantifying my blog posting history - May 16, 2013
- Use the weekly review to give yourself permission to do things you want to do - May 9, 2013
- Quantifying my habit of writing, and things I’ve learned along the way - May 8, 2013
- Listening to the clues about what’s working well: writing - Mar 21, 2013
- Reading old letters and relearning how to write - Jan 11, 2013
- Blog analysis for 2012: ~133,000 words so far - Dec 26, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Custom Post Types & Custom Fields (Wes Bos, #wpto) - Jul 19, 2012
- Experience report: Editing, formatting, and publishing an e-book - Jul 17, 2012
- Experiment! Stories from My Twenties PDF - Jun 26, 2012
- Making progress on my book of highlights! - Jun 24, 2012
- Numbers from rereading more than ten years of my blog - Jun 13, 2012
- Quantified Awesome: Blogging, WPM, and the speed of reflection - May 28, 2012
- Taking stock of the way I take notes - May 18, 2012
- Maintaining a manual topical index for my blog using Emacs - May 9, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Designing content so that it works – Carl Friesen (#torontob2b) - May 3, 2012
- Mapping my blog archives - Mar 11, 2012
- Meetup sketchnotes: The Publishing Side of WordPress, Andy McIlwain - Mar 10, 2012
- Adjusting - Mar 7, 2012
- Emacs, artbollocks-mode.el, and writing more clearly - Dec 16, 2011
- Reviewing my archives - Dec 13, 2011
- Blog analysis for 2011: 173,363 words so far; also, using the Rails console to work with WordPress - Dec 9, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 15): Tools to help you get started - Dec 8, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 14): Writing for yourself and writing for others - Dec 1, 2011
- Decision review: Scheduling posts and using themes - Nov 25, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 13): On frequency - Nov 24, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 12): Two homes - Nov 17, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 11): Looking back at the year - Nov 10, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 10): Difficult situations - Nov 3, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 9): Learning from others - Oct 27, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 8): Slow life down and speed it up - Oct 20, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 7): Learning how to write - Oct 13, 2011
- Monitoring multiple WordPress sites for comments using Yahoo Pipes - Oct 9, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 6): Looking back - Oct 6, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 5): Getting started - Sep 29, 2011
- Working with the Editorial Calendar plugin for WordPress; on scheduling posts - Sep 23, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 4): Parenting - Sep 22, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 3): Blogging and other social tools - Sep 15, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 2): Growing into blogging - Sep 8, 2011
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 1): Blogging and introverts - Sep 1, 2011
- Session follow-up #1: Discovering Yourself through Blogging - Aug 17, 2011
- Discovering Yourself through Blogging (free teleconference Aug 16, 6 PM PDT, 9 PM EDT, 9 AM Philippine time) - Aug 16, 2011
- Living an awesome life as a 27-year-old: a year in blog posts - Aug 12, 2011
- Thinking about blogging and planning ahead - Aug 11, 2011
- Writing your way past “What have I been doing with my life?” - Jun 26, 2011
- This is what my blog looks like on paper - Jun 13, 2011
- Writing more about life - Apr 9, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, Part VII: Inspiring Yourself and Inspiring Others - Mar 13, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let’s Get Down to Business - Mar 4, 2011
- Questions and answers from #infoboomSC tweetchat on blogging - Mar 3, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, part V: Communication Matters - Mar 1, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, part IV: Connecting with People - Feb 28, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, part III: Sharing Makes the Blog Go ‘Round - Feb 26, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, part II: The Compounding Value of an Archive - Feb 25, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, part I: The Immediate Benefits of Thought - Feb 24, 2011
- Decision review: Limiting my blog to one post a day - Feb 19, 2011
- Book: Daddy Long Legs, and letters - Feb 18, 2011
- Imagine success for social media - Feb 16, 2011
- From zero to hero: a newbie’s guide to learning and building a reputation along the way - Feb 16, 2011
- Books to write - Feb 11, 2011
- Things to write about: questions for your blogger’s block - Feb 9, 2011
- Cross-posting between Lotus Connections blogs and a personal blog - Jan 26, 2011
- Sketches: If you want to make the most of your next conference, you should blog - Jan 4, 2011
- Blogging and conference networking tips - Dec 29, 2010
- Understanding analytics for personal blogs - Dec 10, 2010
- What if sharing knowledge could make a difference between life and death? - Dec 10, 2010
- Sketchnotes: The Science of Blogging: Dan Zarrella (Hubspot) - Dec 9, 2010
- Writing about lots of different kinds of things - Dec 8, 2010
- Where do you find topics to write about? How to have tons of topics - Nov 5, 2010
- How much time does it take to blog? - Nov 4, 2010
- Thinking about getting better at writing - Oct 24, 2010
- Back on the writing wagon - Oct 16, 2010
- Six steps to make sharing part of how you work - Aug 22, 2010
- Success and blogging - Aug 4, 2010
- Playing the long game: writing, raw material, and backups - Jul 15, 2010
- Thoughts on writing and starting again - Jul 6, 2010
- Notes about business communication - Jun 17, 2010
- The work of self-understanding - Jun 9, 2010
- Influence map; introspection - Jun 3, 2010
- Imperfection - May 29, 2010
- Holy cow, that was a lot of mail. So sorry! - May 6, 2010
- The problem with personal branding - Apr 23, 2010
- Show your work - Apr 10, 2010
- WordPress admin screen tweaks - Apr 3, 2010
- How to get people to read your blog post - Mar 24, 2010
- How to brain-dump what you know - Mar 23, 2010
- It’s not what you can’t write, it’s what you need to share - Feb 18, 2010
- Personal blog? Don’t worry about your strategy - Feb 16, 2010
- Visualization of my blog categories - Feb 13, 2010
- Writing for love and fun - Feb 11, 2010
- Getting started on your web presence - Jan 14, 2010
- Growth through writing - Jan 13, 2010
- Thinking out loud: Mapping what I know - Jan 3, 2010
- On the practice of a weekly review - Jan 1, 2010
- I write because I cannot waste time - Dec 30, 2009
- Learning about note-taking - Dec 23, 2009
- One post a day, or the value of a bottleneck - Dec 18, 2009
- Editing feedback on The Shy Connector - Dec 9, 2009
- WordPress tweak: Proper navigation for date.php - Nov 29, 2009
- Learning how to write - Nov 25, 2009
- Reflecting on how I can create value - Nov 14, 2009
- Reflecting on 8 years of blog posts - Nov 14, 2009
- Thinking about how I can make the most of editing; The world is an amazing candy-store of talent - Nov 13, 2009
- Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant? Eat like a bee! - Nov 10, 2009
- Thinking about Planner/EmacsWiki versus WordPress - Nov 3, 2009
- Blog to find out how you think - Sep 20, 2009
- Another year of blog posts (PDF, 535 pages) - Aug 10, 2009
- Log your accomplishments - Jun 22, 2009
- RSS footers - Mar 26, 2009
- Helping my parents learn more about Internet and business; any tips? - Mar 25, 2009
- Blogging helps - Jan 12, 2009
- Summarizing my WordPress posts using XSLT; 2008 as a PDF - Dec 20, 2008
- The benefits of writing - Dec 7, 2008
- Notes from conversations: Conscious competence - Nov 28, 2008
- New domain name: livinganawesomelife.com - Oct 4, 2008
- The Road to Me 2.0: How I Was the Chosen One « Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel - Sep 17, 2008
- Editors for blogging - Aug 29, 2008
- Want to subscribe to a subset of my blog? - Jul 26, 2008
- Things I can do to make progress on my book - Jul 26, 2008
- One sentence – microfiction, microlife - Jul 17, 2008
- Might need to spend more time hanging out with Emacs geeks =) - Jul 6, 2008
- Trudge, trudge, trudge - Jun 22, 2008
- New blog design - May 25, 2008
- Addicted to blogging? - Apr 25, 2008
- Morning Pages - Mar 26, 2008
- Working on the book - Mar 6, 2008
- Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way out of a Job… and Into a Career - Feb 27, 2008
- Writing and "Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance" - Feb 10, 2008
- Upcoming events - Feb 3, 2008
- Chapter 7: Managing Your Notes in Emacs – done! - Feb 3, 2008
- I so rock =) - Feb 3, 2008
- Testing from Emacs - Feb 2, 2008
- Two tweaks = a great writing day - Feb 1, 2008
- When it rains, it pours: query letter on personal finance accepted by Linux Journal - Jan 31, 2008
- 10 tips for new bloggers - Jan 31, 2008
- Passed it on! - Jan 30, 2008
- Blogging works in mysterious ways - Jan 30, 2008
- Changed to excerpts on the main page – What do you think? - Jan 29, 2008
- Windows Live Writer and blogging - Jan 28, 2008
- Editing - Jan 21, 2008
- On second thought… - Jan 21, 2008
- 10 Terrific WordPress Plugins - Jan 19, 2008
- What gets measured gets managed - Jan 19, 2008
- Inching away, 1000 words at a time - Jan 16, 2008
- Not much writing today… - Jan 15, 2008
- Yes, I write too much - Jan 9, 2008
- Writing plans for the chapter on managing notes - Jan 9, 2008
- Quick book notes - Jan 8, 2008
- Maybe people really are generous with their wisdom - Jan 8, 2008
- zomg, another chapter up! - Jan 5, 2008
- Working two jobs - Jan 4, 2008
- More progress - Jan 2, 2008
- More writing is possible - Dec 30, 2007
- If you throw enough pots - Dec 30, 2007
- Writing progress - Dec 30, 2007
- Oh no! Version dependencies… - Dec 30, 2007
- 5 ways to deal with writer’s block - Dec 30, 2007
- Pizza is the mind-killer - Dec 29, 2007
- Writing, writing, writing - Dec 28, 2007
- A good reason to check out the WordPress version of my blog - Dec 15, 2007
- Tips for conference bloggers - Dec 14, 2007
- Wicked Cool Emacs: get in on the action! - Dec 1, 2007
- With five years of blog posts, there’s a lot to discover - Nov 29, 2007
- Okay, we’re in business – 5 years of my life in WordPress - Nov 27, 2007
- PostReach’s ClickComment - Oct 4, 2007
- I’m going to write a book! - Sep 18, 2007
- Announcing: Book Snake blog! - Jul 24, 2007
- Blogging: not just for extroverts - Mar 23, 2007
- My favorite blog posts - Dec 26, 2006
- Long time no blog - Dec 24, 2006
- Too busy living to blog - Nov 15, 2006
- E-mail interview oddness - Sep 18, 2006
- A fountain pen again - Aug 31, 2006
- IBM CASCON 2006: Social discovery and conferences - Jul 27, 2006
- IBM CASCON 2006 and conference backchannels - Jul 27, 2006
- Book rearrangements - Jul 4, 2006
- Blog visualizations - Jun 25, 2006
- Business blogging - Jun 17, 2006
- Writer's block? Read! - Jun 17, 2006
- Blah - Jun 5, 2006
- Anxiety - Jun 3, 2006
- Life on the A-list - Jun 2, 2006
- Tagging blog posts - Jun 2, 2006
- Wow, what a blogger! - Jun 1, 2006
- Blog hiccup - Jun 1, 2006
- I'm sorry! - May 31, 2006
- Why blogging is cool - May 31, 2006
- Blogging is vanity - May 30, 2006
- Blogly angst - May 24, 2006
- Why I don't have to make my website pretty - May 18, 2006
- Hooray for mindmaps and checklists - Apr 10, 2006
- Blogbridge – nifty! - Feb 16, 2006
- The five-year journal - Dec 31, 2005
- To write well, one must have leisure - Dec 8, 2005
- Flash fiction: ALLEYCAT – 196 words - Nov 11, 2005
- Aha! That’s it! That’s my thing! Research as blogging - Oct 6, 2005
- Way too much exercise - Aug 20, 2005
- New purpose for plannerlove.com - Aug 14, 2005
- Bubblegum and string - Aug 10, 2005
- Five lessons learned from last week - Jul 25, 2005
- Rediscovering the art of writing - Jul 12, 2005
- Digital Pinay - Jul 9, 2005
- Feedburner rocks - Jun 30, 2005
- Productive day! - Jun 2, 2005
- The Mapa Family Book of Virtues - May 11, 2005
- Structuring content - May 7, 2005
- Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals - May 7, 2005
- Diarist prompts - Apr 26, 2005
- Blogging party - Apr 25, 2005
- Paul Lussier on possible Planner Linux Journal article - Mar 31, 2005
- Business Writing Seminar - Mar 11, 2005
- OUT OF THE RAIN — 25 words, 158 chars - Jul 15, 2004
- Short story: SMOKED - Apr 23, 2004
- blogging - Feb 20, 2003
