Wow. Little did I know I was just chipping at the tip of the iceberg with this app.

My thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the RSS feed this week.

Work isn’t a place — it’s what you do.

And you might work on a lot of devices — a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad — in a lot of places. You might work on the road or maybe from home (with your AeroPress and clickity keyboard). And that makes it hard to securely use a shared drive, coordinate with clients and collaborate with your team.

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Josh Sternberg:

Four years ago, [Atlantic Media’s] traditional-to-digital-audience metrics were at a one-to-one basis, meaning for every traditional reader there was a digital one, according to Justin Smith, president of the Atlantic Media Company. Now, he says, on average, its digital audience is 25 times higher than the print audience.

Sternberg also notes that though Atlantic Media’s digital audience is 25 times larger than their print audience, digital accounts for only half of their advertising revenue.

I just logged in to my Twitter account settings and lo and behold that new checkbox for me to recive that “weekly digest of Stories & Tweets from my network” was enabled by default. Gee, thanks.

This is not that I think Twitter’s new weekly digest is a bad idea, but I’m on Twitter enough as it is and don’t need an email telling me about what I likely already saw. Moreover, it would have been polite of Twitter to let me opt in to the new email list rather than requiring me to opt out.

Seth Godin:

I care a lot about using digital shadows of real world devices because we don’t have the imagination to reinvent them.

The Home Work Podcast has become one of my favorite new shows. It’s short, and I’ve been learning a lot. About 3 weeks ago Dave and Aaron talked about what they call The Mental Office:

Working from home isn’t always about notebooks, apps and office furniture. Much of it happens in the head, between fighting distraction, staying focused and keeping things organized. In this episode, Aaron and Dave chat about leaving work at work (even when it’s in your home) and doing a mind-sweep to keep things clear.

Aaron shared a metaphor of how switching between work and home life was akin to transporting between worlds in Myst. I took some of his ideas and adapted them into my own daily routine. I now end the day by doing a brain dump into a running text file in nvALT — I jot down all the ideas still in my head, all the loose ends I didn’t tie up, all the things I may want to do but didn’t get to.

It can be hard to call it quits for the day when there are still things which could be done. And so my text file is my way of admitting that yes the day is done and yes there is still work to do, but there is always tomorrow.

It reminds me of this Hemingway quote:

I learned not to think about anything that I was writing from the time I stopped writing until I started again the next day. That way my subconscious would be working on it and at the same time I would be listening to other people and noticing everything, I hoped.

By jotting down the loose ends of my work, and then leaving things alone, it has helped tremendously to let my conscious mind not keep work at its forefront when it’s not office hours. It also works as a great way to start the next day if I don’t already have an idea or project buzzing in my mind.

The story of how they accidentally deleted the film before they were done and nearly lost everything.

My thanks to Timing for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Timing is a utility app that runs in your Mac’s Menu Bar and keeps track of where you’re spending time on your computer.

I’ve been using this app for almost a year to keep tabs on my work habits. Timing runs in the background and does all the heavy lifting of tracking what apps I’m active in, what websites I’m spending time on, and more. I can bundle those apps into Activities such as “writing”, “designing”, etc. and see aggregate time spent on certain task categories.

You have to give Timing a few weeks to really get some good useful stats that you can look over in aggregate to see how you are spending your time, where you’re spending it, and if there are certain apps or websites you need to be more conscious of in order to be more focused and productive. I just recently looked back at my total aggregate stats for the past 10 months, and it gave me some motivation to continue refining my daily routine.

Right now, Timing is on sale in the Mac App Store, or you can snag the free version that shows your activities for today and yesterday.

More info about just how much the Pebble does and doesn’t interact with the iPhone, as well as what it’s like to have to ramp up production of a runaway Kickstarter project. The Pebble has been so successful that they literally had to cap their Kickstarter campaign at 85,000 units; all the rewards are now sold out.