Many Mailboxes in One System: Thunderbird and AI
A case study: several mailboxes in one Thunderbird profile, with AI triage, filters and a searchable archive instead of five open tabs.
Category Productivity and tools
Tools and methods for organising your work: Obsidian, Excel, software rankings and proven habits. All tested on my own work as a designer.
Nozbe from Scratch: Priorities, Projects and Weekly Review
Priorities, projects, an incoming box and a weekly review that takes twenty minutes. A five day plan for the first week.
RAG in Obsidian: Index Your Knowledge Base and Talk to Your Notes
Retrieval over your own notes: what the pipeline is made of, three ways to run it and the mistakes that make an answer sound confident without a source.
Asana from Scratch: Project, Tasks and Views
A project, tasks and subtasks, then the same work seen as a list, a board, a calendar and a timeline. What the free plan really allows.
Notion from Scratch: Your First Page and Task Database
A page, a task database with five properties and three views of the same data. The first half hour in Notion without a template you will never use.
