Guides
How calendars, the GTD method and productivity-app subscriptions actually work. No smoke, and no sales pitch halfway through a sentence.
Calendar and tasks on one screen
Keeping your schedule in one place and your tasks in another is not an organisation problem. It is an information problem: you are deciding what fits in the day without ever seeing the whole day.
Read the guide →GTD on the iPhone, set up properly
GTD has a reputation for being complicated, and the way it gets explained is partly to blame. There are five steps. Four of them can be largely automated. The fifth decides whether the system survives.
Read the guide →One-time-purchase GTD apps: the sum nobody does
Searching for a “one-time payment” GTD app is rarely about business models. It is about not being bled monthly. Those are two different fears, and only one of them is solved by the price.
Read the guide →How Olena works without servers
“We have no servers” sounds like a slogan. It is an architectural decision with concrete consequences, good and bad — and one you can verify from the outside without taking our word for it.
Read the guide →Controlling OBS from your iPad
«Control OBS from my iPad» is really two different wishes, and mixing them up is why the tool you pick ends up disappointing. Here they are separated, with what each one costs.
Read the guide →How to build a live stream rundown
A rundown isn't written, it's assembled. It's a list of what you're going to show, in order, with a note on what to say over each one.
Read the guide →A teleprompter for solo streamers
With nobody in the gallery, the prompter stops being an autocue and becomes your only safety net. That changes what belongs on it.
Read the guide →Going live on a PC with Browser Source
A browser source turns any screen on your network into another output. It's the route for broadcasting from a PC without giving up control from your iPad.
Read the guide →Saving ideas for your next stream
Stream material turns up across the week and in five different places. Saving it well is what decides whether you have something to talk about on Thursday.
Read the guide →Productivity apps without the expensive subscription
A subscription isn't expensive or cheap because of its number. Almost everything you pay each year goes to servers and staff, not to the program in your hand.
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