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Working Tools 43. Back to the Mac

I’ve been pretty much full time on the Mac for more than a week now, after an extended period of iPad only / iPad first. I have just about stopped prodding the screen with my pudgy finger. Setup I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro from 2017. 2.9 GHz
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Working Tools 42. Sabotaged.

The new normal has exposed the weakness of my iPad-only system [https://stuartlennon.com/working-tools-36-horses-for-courses/]. The iPad Pro as a mini-desktop is a beautiful, minimal setup. The tablet sits on a stand, in horizontal orientation, controlled by a separate keyboard and mouse (or trackpad). This makes for a focused experience.
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Working Tools 41. Customer Hostility

Why do tech companies hate their customers so much? Remember aspirational me [https://stuartlennon.com/working-tools-36-horses-for-courses/]? The one who had his iPad Pro on a boom arm. The premise of the iPad Pro is that it can handle pretty much anything. It almost can. Almost. My desire to have the
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Working Tools 40. HEY for Work

I’m a paid up subscriber to the new email service that I wrote about [https://stuartlennon.com/working-tools-39-hey-yay-nay/] last week. I’m on the lists for custom domains and work accounts. My personal mail has gone from needy and demanding, to chilled and supportive. I have no notifications switched
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Working Tools 39. Hey! Yay! Nay?

Today, I’m writing about the dance craze sweeping the nation. Only kidding. I’m still blethering on about e-mail. I have been trialing Hey [https://hey.com] for more than a week. I’ve read the manifesto [https://hey.com/the-hey-way/] (seriously, there is one), watched the 37 minute
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Working Tools 38. E-mail Revisited

A huge attraction of going iOS-only, or iOS-first, is simplicity and focus. iPad can do all sorts of multi-tasking, but for me, works best as a single-focus device. Accepting that my corporate work is easier done on macOS than iOS, has redirected my thinking on workflows. E-mail I have three
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Working Tools 37. HEY

Heard of Basecamp [https://basecamp.com/]? It’s a collaboration tool for remote teams. Well, the guys behind it have been working on re-imagining e-mail. The aim is to put the user in charge. Privacy-driven, workflow-oriented, with some additional clever elements. It’s called HEY [https://hey.com/]. If you
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Working Tools 36. Horses for Courses

I’m self-aware enough to know, that whining about whether to use one highly-priced bit of tech over another, is easily seen as a humble brag, or a first world problem. Certainly, in the context of our world today, it’s entirely insignificant. Still winds me up though. The Dream
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