These posts are about the ways that I automate things in my life to improve my performance and/or open up time in my day.

As I said before, Drafts is a deceptively simple but absurdly powerful app. Because of this, it is a slow burn. Even as a daily user and advocate for Drafts I did not really unlock the true power of the app until this past summer.

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I think email is one of those things I and my fellow millennials were supposed to kill, or maybe hate; I’m not sure what my generation’s official stance is supposed to be, but I kind of like email.

I came to this conclusion over time, after spending a considerable effort in making my email experience pleasant and functional. In this post, I want to show you some of the ways that I have done that and why.

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My wife does not have a lot of hobbies; instead, she focuses all of her downtime on deal hunting. She reads various coupon and deal blogs every day. Then she uses her research to hunt for each purchase like a big game hunter.

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While on a walk today, I realized that I could create a Hazel rule to prevent one of my backup drives from filling up unnecessarily.

When I got home, I decided to make a screencast of me creating this rule. Here it is!

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There are many posts on this site about how I plan and organize tasks. This post is about how I check one of those things off the list.

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