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Today I learned about a portable word processor that could have made my life so much easier while doing fieldwork, specifically the task of writing up field notes. I spent a lot of time traveling to/from meetings and the miserable battery life of my MacBook meant that I couldn’t use it to capture everything I [...]

[I wrote the following on June 6, 2008 but never posted it. Thought it was still worth sharing.]
One of the most popular posts on this blog is something I wrote two summers ago about overcoming procrastination when it comes to writing. My basic advice was to pressure yourself to write by using contingency management, a [...]

I am currently about to hurl because NVivo, the qualitative analysis software I’ve started using and one of the premiere apps on the market, is so cumbersome and ugly. Granted, it’s designed for the PC and I have to run it on Windows (that’s explains part of the pain) - but is this really the [...]

Lately I’ve been using the very handy Time Tracker to record how much time I spend on various projects. Here’s the description from the website:
“Track the time you spend on projects with this simple and easy-to-use application. Divide your work into projects, and split each into individual tasks. Stay honest, and not count those coffee [...]

Thanks to my sister Laura for sending me The Onion’s article about Mead’s new Grad-School-Ruled Notebook, an innovation that squeezes even more lines on the page.
On a more serious note (no pun intended): I really wish I had stuck with taking lecture and discussion notes using pen and paper rather than going digital (laptop, handheld) [...]

If you’re using Parallels to run Windows on your Mac, you may have realized that the program takes up more space on your hard drive the longer you use it. More specifically, the file titled “winxp.hdd” balloons over time whether you’re storing files within Windows or not.*
Good news. Parallels has a built-in tool that allows [...]

On January 1 I said I was going to use the Seinfeld method to help me meet my goals, and so far I’ve been successful. My primary goal was to write at least 850 words each day, and I also wanted to wake up at 6 AM every day in January, including Saturdays and Sundays.
Done [...]