Mike Vardy

All I Want

There’s not much that I need or even want in the way of material things. I’m pretty happy with all I’ve got now and the last year has brought me so much that Christmas just seems like a bonus for me – I get to see my kids every day with my new work arrangement

On Enough: How Bare is My Air?

I was asked to be a guest on Enough: The Minimal Mac Podcast — one of my favourites — with Patrick Rhone and Myke Hurley this week, and it was an honour and privilege to oblige. I’ve been a big fan of Patrick’s work for, like, ever and Myke’s put together a stellar lineup of

Decluttering iStuff: Task Management Apps

Note: This piece is a bit dated. I’ll be updating it in the coming weeks, but in the interim you may want to check out my Task Management Tools page. It’s been a while since I’ve decluttered anything. Too long of a while. So, today I am tackling a doozy: iOS Task Management apps. Those

On Love

On a day like today where both kids are home, my wife came home from work early to help out and I had a rewarding day of great work, I’ll simply state the following: Love my kids. Love my wife. Love my work. Love my life. ‘Nuff written.1 Photo credit: Raul Lieberwirth (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Paper Covers…Everything

While I’ve invested heavily in OmniFocus on all of my platforms, there are times and situations where I shift gears to another trusted productivity app…of sorts. Paper. I have always been a fan of paper, and I’d be foolish to not have some form of paper product and a writing instrument with me at all

The Maturation of a Social Media User

With the reimagining of Path in its latest release, I’ve been really thinking not so much about how far it has come since it first showed up on the app scene but how far social networking has come since it first appeared on the scene. Let’s just say that I think the users have matured

Review: Helvetindex Cards

Anyone who’s been following productivity on the Internet is no stragner to the Hipster PDA. As described on Merlin Mann’s 43Folders, the Hipster PDA is: “…a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is

The Journey to Markdown: On the Results

Well, it’s been an interesting ride. I’ve learned a lot and have tried out a lot of different applications along the way. To sum up my journey, I’m going to answer a series of questions below that should provide some sort of closure to this saga. What did I gain out of learning Markdown? Firstly,