Author Archives: Andy

Weeknote for 3/10/2024

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Andy

Health 😌 My ulcerative colitis medicine arrived, and I started taking it again. There are a few loose ends to the insurance situation, but for now the crisis has passed, though I’m still processing the implications. In a couple of … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/3/2024

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Andy

Life maintenance 😌 Last week sprang some good surprises, the biggest one being that my health insurance started covering my ulcerative colitis med again. Tuesday’s surprise was that my busy doctor had an opening the next day, so I scheduled … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/25/2024

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Andy

Life maintenance 😬 My spring housekeeping was interrupted by a clash with the medical system. I’d learned a couple of weeks earlier that my health insurance had dropped coverage of my very expensive ulcerative colitis medication. The next week, the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/18/2024

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Andy

Housekeeping 😐 For my spring housekeeping, I spent some time on catch-up cleaning and boxing up my accumulated clutter. My kitchen floor and bedroom look a lot nicer now. This week I’ll continue sorting through the clutter and try to … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/11/2024

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😌 I made good progress on my Make integration with Notion, which will register a day’s session of work on a task. I’m switching projects now, so I’ll have to pick up the integration again in a few months … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/4/2024

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😌 I finished separating my intervals database into iteration and day databases. This week I’ll try to get through creating a Make scenario for automatically registering work sessions for my tasks in Notion. I do it manually now, and … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/28/2024

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 🤔 After seeing that my non-project time blocks were taking over my evenings, I began instituting another little productivity hack: a 15-minute timer. I put it in my interval timer app alongside my daily routine timers so I’d see … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/21/2024

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😐 I started fixing some issues in the design of my Notion workspace that had been bothering me. I merged a couple of redundant database columns, which came from the way my data is cobbled together from different sources. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/14/2024

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 🧐 The next four weeks I’ll take care of some work-intensive parts of my productivity system that will set me up for future improvements. The main two are (1) learning how to automate Notion with Make and (2) learning … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/7/2024

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 🤔 I spent the first half of the week scheduling my projects for the year. My experiment with full-year project scheduling last year worked well enough that I decided to keep it going with some changes. The main change … Continue reading →