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Ever hidden Excel rows or columns only to forget what's tucked away? 🤔 Stop playing hide-and-seek with your data! 🙈

Discover how Excel's grouping feature lets you easily collapse and expand sections. No more guessing or endless scrolling to find what you need. 👁️ Bring clarity and control back to your spreadsheets. ✨

Check out my latest video on how to effectively use this often overlooked feature of Excel: youtu.be/1rvnSAEynYA

It’s #StapleDay!

💥 I love it when staples are coated, rather than just being a regular chrome colour; these black ones help make the luminous orange gridlines POP

It has taken me 22 days to get here.. a hairline above a page a day!

I find that staple days are great to take stock of what’s written and rediscover ideas, thoughts, and the occasional doodle

What’s your process for filtering through notebooks?

I know I'm getting old, or dare I hope to say, wise, because I can't shake the feeling that any and all demonstrable #productivity gains generated by the use of #AI could be outweighed by simply #teaching people to use and manipulate structured plain text efficiently.

Likewise, teaching new #engineers to do those basic things well instead of jumping straight to "this is how you install the latest framework".

In today's piece on digital scratchpads I talk about leveraging micro-friction by placing a life dashboard where you'll see it every day. I'm coming from the perspective of keeping daily notes in One Big Text File, but the principles apply to any daily note practice.
ellanew.com/ptpl-2025-04-14-ap

ellanew.comAppend, Not Prepend, if You Want to Craft a Dashboard at the Top of Your Daily Notes - Ellane WAppending daily notes adds helpful friction that can keep your priorities at the top of your mind