Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Simpler method of getting message-linked todos into OmniFocus 2

A couple of days ago, I posted an article detailing how to use Keyboard Maestro to create todos in OmniFocus 2 that are linked to original messages in Mail.app. Security-conscious Ben Brooks thought

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Using Keyboard Maestro to create todos in OmniFocus 2 that are linked to original messages in Mail

About a year ago, I switched from OmniFocus to Things, in part because of a dislike of the OmniFocus Mac app. Today, I’m switching back to OmniFocus for two reasons.1. OmniFocus 2 for the Mac was

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Junk mail mystery — Nearly every message in Mail.app is being marked as spam

As I wrote about in the past, I host my email on a Mac mini with OS X Server, and on which I run Mail.app and SpamSieve together to provide a server-side spam filtering and rules-processing

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Arbitrary scheduling in Keyboard Maestro

This morning I was trying to create a Keyboard Maestro macro to automatically send an email to my team members on the last day of each month. I got stymied when I realized the the time schedule

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Staying the course — Performance of the permanent portfolio since the launch of Money for Something

My book Money for Something, was released in August of 2012. While the intention of the book was to teach the simple fundamentals of investing, I decided to go one step further, and describe the

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Richard Feynman on knowing something

In the video The Pleasure of Finding Things Out I love this profound quote by Richard Feynman. He's talking about pseudo-science, but it has broad applicability:

But I have an the advantage of having

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Fucking politicians—The consequences of having donated to the Ron Paul political campaign

Back in 2008, I made a terrible mistake—I donated to the Ron Paul political campaign.

Why a mistake? Because Ron Paul proceeded to sell or pass on my email address to a multitude of conservative

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Hilarious co-host rambling on the Cubed Podcast

Remember those funny videos of people like George Bush or Dan Quayle incoherently rambling on about something? You know, the ones that make you cry, "What the hell is he saying!?!" Well, I'm

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Tracking LendingClub investment performance in Quicken or iBank

This article describes how I track and reconcile my LendingClub investments, using the iBank personal finance software. This method should be equally valid for people using Quicken.In iBank, I set

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Does Erik Vorhees understand things better than Milton Friedman?

Speaking with people of different religious beliefs, I've always found it curious to hear a common viewpoint, that goes something along the lines of:

It's quite obvious that all gods in which people

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