Life hacks section.

Summary: Evernote + gesture typing, unsorted and untagged.

Do you take any notes on paper? If so do you scan them or otherwise digilatize them?

No. Paper is cumbersome and unsearchable. I need my notes with me at all times, so I use Evernote.

Do you have specific strategies for deciding which information to write down?

Most often, I record details that would likely be lost after a mental context switch. Also, if I feel that I will need this piece of information in the future, I just write it down.

How do you write notes to capture all important information?

Evernote on Android, using gesture typing. (BTW, gesture typing will be introduced in iOS 8 in September, so this strategy will work on Apple devices too).

Do you tag your notes?

No. Basically, I have one dedicated tag, "booze", which I use to tag notes about wine (unlike whisky, there are hundreds of wine brands, so I have to remember which ones I liked). The rest of my notes are an unsorted mess. I rely on search for retrival. When I write notes, I try to include keywords that I'm likely to use when searching.

If you use Evernote, or a similar system how private are your notes? Would you allow friends to read in them? Your spouse?

Fully private. I'm a paid subscriber which lets me protect notes with a pincode.

Edit: Just wanted to add that if a note grows too large, I move it to a separate Google doc (also accessible via mobile).

What do you do when you have nothing to do? I mean no phone, book, etc.

I like to kill time by just multiplying numbers or trying to ROT-x words, but it's kinda dull.

Edison, Bill Clinton, Plato, Oprah, Einstein, Caesar, Bach, Ford, Steve Jobs, Goebbels, Buddha and other humans superlative superlative in their respective skill-sets

Is "superlative superlative" intended?

Is there a reasonably well researched list of behaviors that correlate positively with lifespan? I'm interested in seeing if there are any low hanging fruit I'm missing.

I found this previously posted, and a series of posts by gwern, but was wondering if there is anything else?

A quick google will give you a lot of lists but most of them are from news sources that I don't trust.

Wow. That's super impressive. The camera itself must be mounted on one of those robots to get precision tracking, but they added jitter to make it look more like a human camera that we are used to. The alternative would be real-time rendering of the scenes with motion tracking of the camera's position which strikes me as much less likely.

Anyway, it immediately reminded me of this video which shows a much simpler example of parallax like this. The camera in this case is tracked using a WiiMote sensor. The good part starts around 2:20.

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I would like recommendations for an Android / web-based to-do list / reminder application. I was happily using Astrid until a couple of months ago, when they were bought up and mothballed by Yahoo. Something that works with minimal setup, where I essentially stick my items in a list, and it tells me when to do them.

Your heuristic for getting the news checks out in my experience, so that seems worth trying.

I wouldn't be surprised if we've both seen plenty of Snowden/NSA on Hacker News.

Thanks for the links.

And while I agree with you that quitting the news would likely be intellectually hygienic and emotionally healthy, it would probably also work as an anti-akrasia tactic in the specific case of cutting out something I often turn to to avoid actual work. Similar to the "out of sight, out of mind" principle, but more "out of habit, out of mind".