Category Archives: Productivity

Reassessing Productivity Apps: Are Paid Subscriptions Still Worth It?

As a busy professional managing side projects and my role as a technical manager, I’ve tried countless productivity apps in search of that elusive solution to streamline my workflow. Like many, I believed that paid apps must offer more than the free alternatives or even the ones built into macOS. For years, I used Spark for email, Fantastical… Read More »

Using diagrams as an aid for research papers

Writing research papers is a part of university life. I have at least one paper due every semester. Typically, I would develop my thesis statement first, then search online at the university library or Google Scholar and finally develop support for my arguments. There will usually be various drafts and rewrites. However, this semester I was introduced to… Read More »