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At the start of each month I do a review in my journal of my goals, habits, and experiments from the past month. In January 2015 I started publishing my monthly reviews on my blog instead of keeping them private. You can see them all in my [monthly reviews category.][1]

This month's review is a bit late because I was travelling in the first week of October, and recovering from travel in the second week. I'll include some photos from my trip in next month's review.

At the start of each month I do a review in my journal of my goals, habits, and experiments from the past month. In January 2015 I started publishing my monthly reviews on my blog instead of keeping them private. You can see them all in my monthly reviews category.

WHAT DID I COMPLETE THAT I AM PROUD OF IN AUGUST?

I spent some time on trial-and-error last week to fix a bug in my app. I thought the details of what I'd done wrong and what the fix was might be useful for others.

I've been working on a new branch of my iOS companion app for Exist, where I'm building out the Today dashboard view. (You can read about this in more depth on the Hello Code blog.)

At the start of each month I do a review in my journal of my goals, habits, and experiments from the past month. In January 2015 I started publishing my monthly reviews on my blog instead of keeping them private. You can see them all in my monthly reviews category.

WHAT DID I COMPLETE THAT I AM PROUD OF IN JULY?

At the start of each month I do a review in my journal of my goals, habits, and experiments from the past month. In January 2015 I started publishing my monthly reviews on my blog instead of keeping them private. You can see them all in my monthly reviews category.

This month I added a couple of new things:

When you're new to remote working, it's easy to miss some of the most important things that you need to sort out. For instance, organising your health insurance or setting up your tax payments correctly.

I've recently had some experience with what happens when you do miss—or set up incorrectly—these essential trivialities of remote working. In short, you quickly realise they're not so trivial after all.

At the start of each month I do a review in my journal of my goals, habits, and experiments from the past month. In January 2015 I started publishing my monthly reviews on my blog instead of keeping them private. You can see them all in my monthly reviews category.

WHAT DID I COMPLETE THAT I AM PROUD OF IN MAY?

At the start of each month I do a review in my journal of my goals, habits, and experiments from the past month. In January 2015 I started publishing my monthly reviews on my blog instead of keeping them private. You can see them all in my monthly reviews category.

WHAT DID I COMPLETE THAT I AM PROUD OF IN APRIL?

I used to have a jailbreak tweak on my phone similar to Launcher, that let me launch apps by pulling down on my screen, no matter what else I was doing on my phone. I had another one that let me add links to my read later accounts from anywhere on my phone. These days I use Polus to launch apps from my Control Center anytime I like.

I love the ability to access useful shortcuts from anywhere. This is why I use Alfred on my Mac constantly.

A few months ago I tried using TeuxDeux to plan out my week. I mentioned my process in my post about the tools I use to keep my content work organised.

One of the things that bothered me about TeuxDeux was that I had to manually enter my calendar events per day, so it was easy to miss them sometimes. Plus, it was just extra work to take events from my calendar and enter them somewhere else.

I read the internet a lot. That’s right, the whole thing.

Well, I try to read the whole thing and I usually end up disheartened by how much faster my reading queue builds up compared to how much of it I read. Still, I do my best.

This article first appeared in an issue of The List, my short-lived premium newsletter for content marketers.

Think about the blogs you admire and respect; the blogs you subscribe to or visit often. What makes you keep coming back?

At the start of each month I do a review in my journal of my goals, habits, and experiments from the past month. In January 2015 I started publishing my monthly reviews on my blog instead of keeping them private. You can see them all in my monthly reviews category.

WHAT DID I COMPLETE THAT I AM PROUD OF IN MARCH?

I've tried tracking my expenses before, and for a while I was happy using Cost, which is perhaps the only expense tracker I've found that shows you your remaining balance, rather than your total expenses or remaining budget. When I worked out what I spent the most money on and where I could cut back I stopped tracking my expenses altogether, since it had served its purpose.

I listen to a lot of podcasts.

In fact, the app that's using the most storage on my phone right now is a podcast player.

This article first appeared in an issue of The List, my short-lived premium newsletter for content marketers.

When you look at stories that are popular on The New York Times or articles that hit the front page of Hacker News, or even just the blog posts that spread like wildfire on Twitter until you've seen them twelve times in two days, the thing they have in common is that they stand out. They're unique stories, well told. Or they're stories that speak to all of us in some way, well told. Or they tell us all how to do something we've been wondering about.

At the start of each month I do a review in my journal of my goals, habits, and experiments from the past month. In January 2015 I started publishing my monthly reviews on my blog instead of keeping them private. I hope you'll find them useful and/or entertaining.

WHAT DID I COMPLETE THAT I AM PROUD OF IN FEBRUARY?

This article first appeared in an issue of The List, my short-lived premium newsletter for content marketers.

How do you find time to keep up with your writing schedule? You've got a million other things to do, and writing is so easy to push aside until later... only later never comes, and suddenly you're struggling to publish regularly.

This article first appeared in an issue of The List, my short-lived premium newsletter for content marketers.

I've been in an ideas drought lately. It's a tough place to be when you have a regular schedule to stick to—like a newspaper cartoonist or columnist who has no ideas but has to create something new every day anyway.

I write a lot. Between my own blog and newsletter, the Exist blog, guest posts, and newsletter, and my client work, that's a lot of writing to keep track of.

I recently created a system to help me keep track of my writing and make sure I'm focused on the right piece at the right time. If you want to try this yourself, here's what you'll need: