Once you see Getting Things Done (GTD) – and its related systems like Sally McGhee’s Take Back Your Life – as cognitive load management rather than a productivity system, a different question emerges.
Not:
“How do I fit more into my life?”
But:
“How do I design my life around what my mind can realistically hold?”
That shift changes everything.
Continue reading Designing life around what your mind can holdHere’s something that bugs me every time I have to use Microsoft Outlook: the Categories colour picker:
Seriously, who a) chose those particular colours, and b) put them in that completely random order?!
Would it be too much to ask for a more colour-spectrum order? Something like this:
A first world problem, I know. But it really bugs my sense of aesthetic and order every time I use it. Which is often.
Last year I tested out the new Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10 and liked what I saw.
One of my favourite additions since then is a system-wide colour picker utility that enables you to pick colours from any currently running application (including Windows itself) and automatically copies it in a configurable format to your clipboard.
With PowerToys running and Color Picker (sic) enabled, press Win + Shift + C.
Continue reading System-wide colour picker added to Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10
Here’s a website that I came across a while ago that beautifully expresses something that I’ve been passionate about for a long time in web and software design: flags are not languages.
Continue reading Flags are not languagesI really like these deliberately inconvenient everyday objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani.
They would make a good companion resource while reading Donald A Norman’s classic book The Design of Everyday Things.
See the whole collection at The Uncomfortable.
