TECH
Setups, workflows and reference for the tools you use daily.
Cheat sheets, setup guides and workflow references for the software and hardware you already own — written to be printed and pinned up, not bookmarked and forgotten.
THE TRAINER
Twenty shortcuts, learned with your hands.
Reading a list of shortcuts teaches you nothing; pressing them teaches you all of it. Press start, then hit the combination it asks for. It only listens while it is running, and it never touches the keys it is not testing.
A trainer showing one shortcut at a time as large key caps, with a streak counter.
Three in a row.
That is how the cards work — twenty at a time, until they are automatic, then turn the card over.
While you are here: the ten-minute digital tidy — free, and it will find the backup that stopped working in March.
Free to read
2 guides in Technology, open in full — no signup, nothing held back.
Passwords: The Only Three Things That Actually Matter
Most password advice is outdated or unusable. Three things do nearly all the work — and the symbols, the rotation and the complexity rules mostly do not.
The Ten-Minute Digital Tidy: A Monthly Maintenance Rhythm
Ten minutes a month on the four things that actually decay — backups, updates, access and clutter — so your machine never becomes a project you dread starting.
In Technology
5 products — downloads, printed goods and gear.
Backups That Survive: The 3-2-1 Rule, Made Practical
The backup rule professionals use, rewritten for one person with one laptop — including the restore test that almost nobody ever runs.
External Drives: What to Buy for a Backup That Lasts
The drive you back up to is the one piece of hardware you cannot afford to buy badly. What matters, what does not, and when you should own two.
The Home Network Map: Write It Down Once
A printable for recording every device, cable and address on your network, so the next outage is a five-minute job instead of a whole evening.
The New Machine Checklist: Set It Up Once, Properly
Everything to do on a new laptop or phone before you start using it, in the order that saves doing half of it twice. Free, one page, print it.
Shortcut Cards: The Twenty That Actually Save Time
Printed cards for the shortcuts worth committing to memory, made to stand under a monitor instead of hiding in a browser tab you closed weeks ago.
Writing
Notes from doing this, rather than from selling it.
The other departments
Same thinking, pointed somewhere else entirely.