A few places, some varying on the circumstance, others always, have this really annoying implementation of their credit card charging system, where they won’t attempt to do it immediately, but at some later point.

I typically won’t have a lot of money in the account my card is attached to, to avoid large unexpected charges. And sometimes, when there is like hours between me going in and fixing billing details and they attempting to charge it sometimes leads to it taking forever to fix it.

I get the need for this to happen in the background, because of how slow this crap is. And I get the need of it happening in the background for recurring charges etc. But when I hit a button it should happen within minutes after I complete the authorization flow.

An habit I’ve been doing most mornings for a while now is to read one day (or two if I’m behind) in Daily Stoic in the morning.

I really like it.

Some of the days are really awesome, while others are very meh.

I first tried Stage Manager when it came out but quickly gave up on it because of various reasons; a big one was performance of it on my Intel MacBook Pro.

A while back I decided to give it another go.

In general I like how it gives me another layer of organization below each Space (or what the fuck the singular of Spaces is).

What I don’t like is the lack of API’s, Shortcuts, Keyboard shortcuts etc to manage each Stage. And the “recently used” thingy is beyond buggy on wide monitors.

I’m one of the people who always drive with GPS directions on. No matter where I am going. At least if the drive is more than 5 minutes.

Here is why:

• I get live ETA
• I see if there are any traffic fuckery going on so I can pick an alternate route
• I can see if anything is closed
• And (this happens a lot) I get a new route when I fuck up and take the wrong exit / forget to take an exit / take an exist when I shouldn’t

A real fucking lifesaver when driving with ADHD.

Look at the complete turd the Docker Desktop app have turned into. Orb is a simple clean real native Mac app version of Docker desktop.

It is amazing.

I love this cli tool, it basically let you run some GitHub actions locally through a docker image

I’m one of the people who usually don’t have a lot of available funds on the account my debit card is attached to. An easy way to avoid a bunch of things, everything from “things I thought I had cancelled” to “impulse shopping”.

It really drives me nuts that most services requires me to re-add the same card instead of having a re-try button. Patreon have had one for ages, but it never worked, but it finally started working for me.

Everyone with a corporate job is most likely familiar with it.

It is kind of a weird app because it kind of does 4 different things:

• Regular password manager
• Regular OTP code generation
• Verified ID’s
• This weird Active Directory third factor authentication stuff (plus some related stuff)

For the longest time the entire Microsoft Authenticator setup I’ve had have always been a bit uncomfortable to be, because the setup don’t transfer with iPhone backups, even the connect to a Mac version. And I’m likely to spend a lot of time with my employer or the client’s IT department to sort things out if I’m for some reason left without access to Authenticator.

For example if my phone breaks or I have to restore it, and I have to re-authenticate before I have re-added the new device. Might not be a big deal to fix it. But I’d rather not have to in the first place.

So to avoid this problem I’ve set up my old iPhone to be a backup Authenticator device, plus most likely some other tasks in the near future.

I’ve used most of last year trying to fix my task management system (or ), after multiple periods of both Things, OmniFocus and various other systems (including paper, Agenda, some text file based ones etc). I’m now mostly at a good place with it.

To be honest it all probably started to break down in the latter half of 2022. Starting ADHD medication made a lot of things I’ve been overcompensating about very overwhelming.

Things

It was in Things until the new version of OmniFocus came out. My main reason for changing then, and now, is custom perspectives. If things had a way to have more custom views in the side bar as in Yesterday, Tomorrow or something like the searches you can do in shortcuts I’d probably still be there.

Plus I really miss having real support for flagging and putting projects on hold. My solution in Things was to just push them out with their “date” field (why not call them defer dates?!).

And OmniFocuses forecast view is so much better.

Also some other minor annoyances with Things:

• Their defer dates are so fucking weird. They have a date, until it is today and then it is just today forever. And you can set tonight, but on only the current day.
• I always miss being able to write tasks as an outline when I use it; like you can get around it, kind of. But having nested folders, projects, and nested tasks is way more flexible than Areas, Projects, Heading, Tasks and Checklists.

Checklists

The one weird thing about my system is that I have a bunch of ridiculous checklist templates that I use to generate daily, weekly, monthly etc checklists for various parts of my life. They are not recurring tasks or projects because I think it is easier to deal with them when I just generate them once a week based on needs.

In addition I have regular Projects. Plus work stuff. Shopping lists. And various more bucket list like things.

The checklists are just generated with task paper plus some shortcuts that insert due dates etc before sending them to OmniFocus. For the rest I set some defer dates (mostly in the checklists to be honest) and for the rest I just put anything except what I’m focusing on right now as Paused. And I have various tags to make it easy to manage through the OmniFocus filtering.

Projects

The way I manage things is that for actions in my “Projects” section (meaning not checklists, not shopping lists etc) have a hard limit of 150 actions. If there is more than 150 available, I need to pause or defer something. And I also put due dates on things more as a reminder if I should pause or drop it.

In order to avoid me doing a tiny bit on a shit load of things I try my best to complete projects before taking in new stuff.