Links
Better Living
- Listen to Old Time Radio dramas like Dragnet & The Lone Ranger. You won’t regret it.
- Dr. Mike Evans’ 15 minute video on Healthy Eating 101. Entertaining and to the point.
- Jane McGonigal’s TEDtalk on The game that can give you 10 extra years of life.
- The Art of Manliness blog on 100 Skills Every Man Should Know.
- Sources of Insight
Photography
Up your game with images in three easy steps:
- Pick a colour palette from Adobe or color-hex.
- Search TinEye Labs for neat Flickr images.
- Create a spiffy social media image with Buffer’s Pablo.
Or if you just want some free-ish images to use:
- Search Flickr for Creative Commons pictures.
- Search Pixabay for attribution-free images.
- If you’re still stuck, you can find more free images via Creative Commons.
Or you could just take pictures yourself: 11 Gear-Free Photography Hacks.
Productivity
- Bullet Journal
- PocketMod
- Plaintext Productivity
- Todo.txt
- Trello
- 30 Days of Getting Results
- Lifehacker
- Scott Hanselman’s Complete List of Productivity Tips
- Productivity 101: How to Use Personal Kanban to Visualize Your Work
- Get 1% Better Every Day: The Kaizen Way to Self-Improvement
- How and Why to Improve Your Cursive Penmanship
Profiles
Teknobabelfish
- Prose.io
- Twitter Card Validator
- Pandoc
- ManageFlitter
- Jekyll Skinny Bones
- Jekyll on Windows
- Jekyll on Stack Overflow
- IFTTT - If This Then That
- Google Custom Search
- Google Fonts
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Open Graph Debugger
- Chocolatey
- Don’t be a parasite. Ebook Formats, DRM and You — A Guide for the Perplexed.
Writecraft
- Pick through a collection of the best articles at Write.pls.
- Check out Changing Minds’ Storytelling collection.
- Check out the Canadian Government’s collection of Writing Tools.
- Chuck Wendig’s blog: 100 Random Storytelling Thoughts and Tips.
- Randy Ingermanson: Snowflake Method & Writing the Perfect Scene.
- The Write Practice blog: How to Write a Story 101 - Conflict & Character.
- K.M. Weiland’s blog: How To Structure - Story, Scenes & Character Arcs.
Writespiration
- Join the fantastic community at Writer’s Carnival.
- Flex your penmonkey muscles with Writer’s Digests’ Creative Writing Prompts.
- Read short fiction and poetry at Long Story Short & Reader’s Carnival.
- Adapt/mashup fairy tales from The Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson.
Writetools
- Bone up on your Markdown Syntax.
- Richard Dooling: Plain Text For Authors & Writers.
- Matthew Lowes: Plain Text for Writers - Part One, Part Two, & Part Three.
- Ian Hocking: Writing a Novel Using Markdown - Part One & Part Two.
- Puppet Labs: How We Automated Our Ebook Builds With Pandoc and KindleGen.
- Write and proofread with Hemingway Editor or just proofread with Slick Write.
- Structured writing studios: yWriter and Scrivener + templates.