But we will, someday, if we ignore him now Photo by Beth Stevenson on Unsplash We were each born with a connection with heaven. Our choices and our focus strengthen or weaken it. A strong connection is a spiritual lifeline, while an unsteady one leaves us open to straying down paths that lead away from happiness....

Plain text tasks, pencil notes, digital caveman-ism, and some OBTF love I’m enjoying a bounty of family life at the moment! It truly is a delight. It’s also a time when most of the spare spaces of my calendar and brain are comfortably full. So this week I will share with you a collection of things that I believe to...

Plus how text based visuals make life harder for the vision impaired This week: Putting money on the table to develop a daily writing habit Text based visuals and the vision impaired Pay yourself to form a writing habit I write words every day. But plenty of days go by where I don’t write write. I’d really like to...

Someone needs your story—choose your timing well and you could change a life Photo by Anthony Metcalfe on Unsplash When I was barely out of my teens and in need of guidance but did not know it, an older and much wiser woman gave me some unsolicited advice. Her name was Leila Edwards. She did it in the best, possibly...

Because typewriter-style graphics are cool and the algorithmic internet is not Goodie 1 - The Progress Bar Someone kindly gave me a typewriter last month. Playing with it has reminded me of the creative ways we used to use monospaced fonts, because at one time that’s all there were. Progress bars and charts could be...

…was the day I finally stopped over-optimising my plain text lists Moving my tasks away from apps to plain text lists was supposed to simplify everything. To take the pressure off. So why have I spent so many years optimising them? Because I didn’t understand the job they did best. Every task manager does these 3...

While still knowing just how much He loves me Illustration by the wonderful Gillian Eilidh O’Mara, who is also a wonderful writer. Someone once said there’s a sure way to know if you are a humble person: If you think you are, you’re not! I’ve pondered the idea of humility a fair bit, over the years. I do not see it...

No blame, but still, never again I keep my calendar in the todo.txt format, in Obsidian, using the Todo.txt Mode plugin to move completed events to a done.md file each day. This week I opened that done.md file only to find it completely blank. Gasp! A plain text nightmare!! This was not supposed to even be able to...

And why are you idolising the stuff that makes you sad? This post represents a change in topic from the bulk of what I write. To help you distinguish the plain text productivity themes at a glance from those that are more overtly Christ-centred, look for the sparkle ✨ emoji in the title. Images from Pexels, combined...

Plain Text Slop Soup, Anyone? I was initially excited to discover a new plain text productivity site this week, with sections on open format apps and tips for plain text workflows. Hooray! I thought. Another resource to add to my Blogroll! But a few seconds in, things began to feel off. It didn’t take long to...

It’s not really about the app When Stefano Marinelli posted about compromises and tolerance, I knew he was right because I’ve seen this in action: Life is full of compromises. And the more you live, the more you learn (or should learn) to be at least a little tolerant of the choices others make, even when they seem...

And reclaim focus for your distractible brain After years perfecting a simple plain text productivity system for tracking my tasks and time, I should have been happy. Surely the search was over at last? But something still felt wrong; incomplete. The information was all there, but I still had trouble focusing on the...