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Checklists
Step-by-step checklists to run before, during, or after a task so that nothing important is skipped.
15 guidesTemplates
Copyable templates for documents, prompts, schedules, and checklists, so you adapt instead of starting from nothing.
14 guidesResearch explainers
What the studies actually found: design, numbers, limits, and what that means for how you work.
11 guidesmacOS
Guides for the Mac: settings, storage, startup, backups, battery, and the built-in tools.
9 guidesPrivacy & security
Protecting data, accounts, and secrets: what leaks, what verifies, and sensible defaults.
8 guidesVerifying AI output
Checking what AI tools produce before you rely on it: failure patterns, review tiers, and tests.
6 guidesBehaviour change
Evidence on changing what you do: friction, cues, plans, and how to recover after a lapse.
5 guidesHabit formation
How habits actually form, how long it takes, and what the research says about making them stick.
5 guidesLearning
Study and learning methods with evidence behind them, from note-taking to using AI without fooling yourself.
5 guidesNote-taking
Capturing and finding what you learn: methods, tools, and workflows for notes that actually get used.
5 guidesPlanning
Turning intentions into plans: weekly reviews, if-then plans, and calendars that survive contact with real days.
5 guidesAI crawlers
The bots that read websites for AI systems: who they are, what they do, and how to allow, block, or check them.
4 guidesDocumentation
Writing and structuring documentation so that people and machines can read it, trust it, and keep it current.
4 guidesHabit tracking
Tracking habits in a way that survives a bad week: density over streaks, realistic targets, and short reviews.
4 guidesPrompting
Writing prompts that are reusable, testable, and clear about their inputs and the output you want.
4 guidesResearch workflow
Collecting, organising, and using sources and ideas across browser tabs, notes, and drafts.
4 guidesrobots.txt
Using robots.txt to state crawler preferences, including for AI crawlers, and what it cannot enforce.
4 guidesScreen recording
Recording your screen well: the tools, the settings, the audio, and the mistakes to avoid.
4 guidesTroubleshooting
Diagnosing a problem in order: the symptoms, the likely causes, and the next step to try.
4 guidesVideo production
Planning, recording, editing, and publishing video that people actually finish.
4 guidesBackups
Copies that actually protect you: Time Machine, offsite copies, restore drills, and what a backup is not.
3 guidesInterruptions
What interruptions and task switching actually cost, and practical ways to reduce them and recover from them.
3 guidesRetrieval practice
Testing yourself instead of re-reading: why it works and how to build it into your notes and study.
3 guidesScreen time
Limits, friction, and blockers for the apps and sites that pull at your attention.
3 guidesAI policy
Ground rules for using AI at work: what goes in, what comes out, who reviews it, and what to disclose.
2 guidesAudio
Getting clear sound: microphones, rooms, levels, loudness, and learning by listening.
2 guidesBrowser tabs
Taming tab overload: what tabs are really doing for you and systems that stop them piling up.
2 guidesDeep work
Sustained, undistracted work on hard problems: how to protect it, plan for it, and recover it when the day fights back.
2 guidesMeetings
Making meetings cheaper before, during, and after: protecting time around them and keeping what comes out of them.
2 guidesNotifications
The settings and rules that decide what is allowed to interrupt you, on the Mac, in the browser, on your phone, and in chat.
2 guidesSpaced review
Reviewing material at expanding intervals so that it stays learned.
2 guidesTeam workflows
Shared habits and documents that keep small teams consistent: templates, policies, agreements, and reviews.
2 guidesTime management
Ways to plan the hours you actually have: time blocks, work intervals, and a weekly structure that holds.
2 guidesYouTube
YouTube mechanics: chapters, captions, and descriptions, and how they help viewers and search.
2 guidesDeveloper productivity
Protecting flow and reclaiming time for software work, from reviews and chat to caches and tooling.
1 guidellms.txt
The llms.txt proposal: what the file contains, who reads it, and whether it is worth maintaining.
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