This a long essay by Stephen Wolfram(of Mathematica fame) from 2019 about how he stays productive. It touches on topics such as file organization and note taking. I thought a few people here might find it interesting:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/

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Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
https://www.easydatatransform.com

Interesting. I'd heard some of his lifestyle before.

Funny how society can look down on practical things. His walking desk setup might look like something out of a Far Side cartoon but it's probably useful.

I go just about everywhere with a sling pack. It's a manly thing, burly and tacticool looking, but it's still a close cousin to a fanny pack. The ugly bottom line is that by the time you load up with a field notebook or two, a bottle of water, multi-tool, cell phone, keys, wallet, pocket knife, and whatever implements of self-reliance you can't do without, a...

This is hard to say.

A...

A man purse makes sense.

There. I admitted it.

Perhaps you should try his cinema usher style, typing while walking setup:
https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/43/2019/02/07-popcorn-rig1.png
(even he seems to be too embarassed to do this in public)

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Andy Brice
https://www.easydatatransform.com
https://www.hyperplan.com

There are some pretty cool man-purses around ;-)

Amontillado wrote:

Interesting. I'd heard some of his lifestyle before.

Funny how society can look down on practical things. His walking desk
setup might look like something out of a Far Side cartoon but it's
probably useful.

I go just about everywhere with a sling pack. It's a manly thing, burly
and tacticool looking, but it's still a close cousin to a fanny pack.
The ugly bottom line is that by the time you load up with a field
notebook or two, a bottle of water, multi-tool, cell phone, keys,
wallet, pocket knife, and whatever implements of self-reliance you can't
do without, a...

This is hard to say.

A...

A man purse makes sense.

There. I admitted it.

I love my sling pack - wear it anywhere, and I am less likely to put it from somewhere and then leave without it.

Amontillado wrote:

Interesting. I'd heard some of his lifestyle before.

Funny how society can look down on practical things. His walking desk
setup might look like something out of a Far Side cartoon but it's
probably useful.

I go just about everywhere with a sling pack. It's a manly thing, burly
and tacticool looking, but it's still a close cousin to a fanny pack.
The ugly bottom line is that by the time you load up with a field
notebook or two, a bottle of water, multi-tool, cell phone, keys,
wallet, pocket knife, and whatever implements of self-reliance you can't
do without, a...

This is hard to say.

A...

A man purse makes sense.

There. I admitted it.

That should be "put it down" in my previous post.

Hahahahaha, and I had thought that today's smartphones, together with about 150 so-called "apps", at least half of'em relentless spying upon you, had resolved those problems!

Note to myself (after having checked with "Everything" but having just found "Carry On Cruising" (Gerald Thomas 1962 - btw I own the whole, wonderful set, imported from England when there wasn't a customs' barrier yet across the Channel): Buy the 1980 Friedkin-Pacino-Allen flick, check possible handbag. Second note: check for more / remaining Friedkin, Pacino, Allen flicks (separately). Just to destress my firstbrain that is, and avoid further procrastination, mail-order-wise.

Good news for Amontillado: "Herrentaschen", as the Germans call'em, are trendy now! Proof on file (just some seconds, source: Münchner Abendzeitung, another government-approved (!) "news"paper, so you can firmly believe what you see there, video from today 11/5):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dso67CdyE00&t=16m51s

(But please note that my link does not imply my endorsement of any other parts of the vid...)

I think I would rather be somewhat less productive than carry a 'man bag' (dinosaur that I am). ;0)

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Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
https://www.easydatatransform.com

Thanks for the reference, Andy – really interesting!

Andy Brice wrote:

This a long essay by Stephen Wolfram(of Mathematica fame) from 2019
about how he stays productive. It touches on topics such as file
organization and note taking. I thought a few people here might find it
interesting:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/

--

Andy Brice
https://www.hyperplan.com
https://www.easydatatransform.com