Through Lifehacker, I found an interesting list of rules for simplicity and contentment in computing. He has some great rules -- don’t use web applications that should be desktop applications (and vice versa), store as many things as possible in plain text, and use a password manager.

Some of the things are a bit more questionable though. For example, he advocates not using your text editor for anything other than editing text. Au contraire — I find that checking my e-mail in Emacs, and managing my calendar in Emacs, and managing my to-do lists in Emacs, greatly simplifies my life.

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