Goodbye google reader, hello leaf

April 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment

If you’ve been living offline you won’t know that on 1st July 2013, Google will stop its very good RSS reader service. There are calls from the digital corpus to save this great service, but I thought I’d kill two digital birds with one virtual stone.

For a long time I have been meaning to sort out my RSS feeds and focus on the ones that I enjoy and learn something from. The impending demise of Google reader has given me impetus to do this. I would find a new RSS reader, but instead of simply migrating my feeds from Google to the new reader, I would sort them out too.

Leaf homepage

After a little searching and listening to others I am beginning a trial of Leaf. It has a beautiful minimal design, and is nice and cheap. It also syncs with Pocket, which I already use. I will be able to store any articles that I want to digest when I have a little more time and view them wherever I have Pocket access.

Hopefully this set-up will work well and I’ll have saved time and sorted out my feeds. Perhaps some good will come from google dropping another service.

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What is a successful month?

May 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I’ve just done my own personal review for April. As I looked at the list of things I wanted to achieve I realised that I had pretty much failed to complete them. However, perhaps I should redefine success. I have been trying to implement Covey’s ‘sharpening of the saw’ from the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This is all about keeping balance and developing four distinct areas; mental, physical, spiritual and social.

The last of these is the area that I find most difficult: social. Being a natural introvert on the MBTI scale I don’t look forward to mixing with too many people. However, looking at April I really pushed myself, got involved and was quite a social chap. Therefore, perhaps I need to look a little less critically at what I do, and give myself a little pat on the back.

April visualised

 

Oh, and I’ll try to balance them a little better next month…

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March 2012 Review

April 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

March 2012

March was a good month. I managed to do all the things that I set out to do. It would be easy to say i could have done more, and I could have, but I also want to celebrate what I actually achieved.

I have created another digital scrapbook image of what I did. Not just as a record but to keep the Photoshop learning going. A fair amount of time was spent doing some recording and if you follow my creative alter-ego you’ll probably find links to the work(s) in progress.

The other good thing about March was the reappearance of the sun. When the sun comes out so too does my bandana, and that IMHO is always a good thing.

Now onto April and a new set of things to achieve.

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