I’m learning all sorts of new nvALT tricks this week.

My thanks to Minigroup for sponsoring the RSS feed this week.

An Atlanta design firm uses Minigroup to work smarter and keep its clients happy

Braizen uses Minigroup to manage projects and collaborate and communicate with their clients.

A minigroup is a private, secure online space where members communicate with posts and comments, share large files, and manage projects.

Braizen uses one minigroup like an intranet, to discuss business and assign tasks. They also create separate minigroups for each client, where employees working on various accounts present comp designs and drafts.

“Telling potential clients that we use this tool, where we’ll keep in constant contact with them, definitely helps seal the deal,” says Tyrie, the copywriter at Braizen.

Watch the full interview with Braizen.

Minigroups start at just $3 per year for owners, with plans up to 100 minigroups and 100GB of storage. There are no user/member fees.

June 11 – 15 at Moscone West in San Francisco.

Update: It’s now sold out. That was fast; it took less than two hours.

Amazing. Why don’t they just put up a sign: Apple. We’re Doing Very Well.

Paul Miller, Senior Editor at The Verge, gives his review of the professional man’s way to keep all your text notes in sync across all your devices. Simplenote and Notational Velocity.

New-to-me-trick: When you’re working on a note in Notational Velocity, you can hit Shift+CMD+E to open that note in your text editor of choice (you can set which editor in NV’s preferences). Hit save in the editor and your changes are pushed back over into NV. After all these years, I cannot believe I never knew about that little power feature. That’s a game changer for me.

Gorgeous timelapse video.

Paul Graham:

Errors of omission are a particularly dangerous type of mistake, because you make them by default.

This also would have made a great accompanying soundtrack to my Clicky Keyboard article. (Via Kevin W.)

Chris Bowler’s take on Pocket as an ever-present capture tool, or, as he puts it, an anything bucket that lives on the web:

The issue is that none of the services I’ve seen fit all my requirements. Instapaper is primarily a tool for reading later. Same for Readability. But I come across items on my iOS devices that require another look when I get back to my Mac. Items to archive (whether in Yojimbo, Pinboard or my bucket of choice, Gimme Bar). Designs to explore further. Videos to watch. Technical resources to investigate, then archive. Apps to purchase.

The internet brings me many forms of content, and they do not all require the same action from me. So an anything bucket that lived on the web, with the potential for native interfaces, gets me really excited.

This is the first thing that came to my mind as well. The upside is that Pocket is already quite ubiquitous within apps and services that I use (since of the former popularity of Read it Later). The downside is that everything you toss into Pocket has to be dealt with from Pocket. I’d be interested in finding a way to take my Pocket Inbox and pipe it into my OmniFocus inbox.

As part of the kickoff of the new WIRED Design Blog, Alissa Walker interviewed David Friedman to talk about his inventor portraits.

I love the tagline David wrote for his project: “Necessity is the mother of invention. I want to photograph the rest of the family.”

This week’s episode of The B&B Podcast is filled with more talks of mechanical keyboards, Pocket, and business models. The end of the show ended a bit abruptly due to a family emergency at Ben’s place — but, all is fine now.

As the members who listen to Shawn Today know full well, I’ve been on a war against email the past several weeks. Not a war against email in and of itself, but a war against my poor habits for how I deal with email.

I’ve recently begun a new tactic of only checking email twice a day for 22 minutes at a time. Instead of making a goal for getting my inbox down to zero, I’ve set a goal of only allotting so much time and energy to email. If it can’t make it into my 44 minutes, then it will just have to wait.

(Via Tina Roth Eisenberg.)