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Never Missing a Birthday Again with Sheets + Slack

I’ll walk through how I built a simple birthday bot using Google Sheets as the data source and Slack API for message delivery.

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When you’re first starting your career, you might find that college skills just aren’t transferable. I've had to relearn note-taking.

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I’ve found the act of creating a vision to be a useful way to dig deep and identify what I want my life to look like at work and at home.

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A Delivery Lead and second-time mom shares how she’s approaching pregnancy and building the support system she wished she had the first time.

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When my bus route recently detoured around major construction, I started brainstorming ways to take back my commute. Here are 100 of them.

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Elimination diets are used to identify food allergies and other sensitivities. What if you could use the elimination method on stressors?

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The sheer volume of messages often makes it impossible to spot truly important ones. Solution? Use Gmail filters so you only see what matters.

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A mind map is a simple tool that makes it easier to break down more complicated long-term goals and into easier-to-digest chunks.

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You may not need all these tools. But maybe one or two of them would make your digital life a little calmer.

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A pragmatic approach to note-taking in Obsidian. Ditching rigid structure in favor of a lightweight system that actually gets used.

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A personal take on using Apple Reminders as a lightweight, flexible tool with just enough features to stay organized.

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The problem with simple shell aliases is that common tasks can require different commands depending on your project or tech stack.