GLYPHFINDER UPDATE

The graph above shows the number of songs I listened to on a monthly basis (the gray bars) as well as the monthly average per year (the black line). One element of my personal production function I find particularly interesting is the impact of music (or audio more general) on my productivity.īased on almost 15 years of Last.fm data, I know that music consumption overall is a pretty good proxy to measure my productivity.

Namely, a list of all the habits, routines and things that make me more productive. This playlist of Zelda soundtracks remixed with lo-fi hip hop beats is my new go-to productivity music.Īs part of my ongoing work on a personal operating manual, I’ve been thinking a lot about what Tyler Cowen would call the “Julian Production Function”. As someone who loves working with post-it notes, I definitely subscribe to that idea. The idea is that visualizing your notes makes it easier to connect and remember them. Instead of writing down notes on a blank canvas like in any conventional note taking app, Nototo gives you a game-like map on which you place and group your thoughts. The best way to describe Nototo is probably as a cross-over of Notion and Minecraft. I stumbled upon this app in John Palmer’s article on Spatial Software and it’s one of the most unique products I’ve seen recently. (Whoever is building Alfred 2.0 – good unicode search has to be a key feature!) The best part: Super fast and well-designed search that just works. Glyphfinder is a Mac app that gives you instant access to more than 30,000 characters and emojis. I used to spend at least five minutes each day on Google just searching for specific unicode characters – especially when I was writing or designing.

GLYPHFINDER UPDATE

This is a quarterly update and review of new tools and products I have recently added to my personal productivity stack.