Comments on: Minimalist Internet Marketing: My Personal Guide

By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:47:09 +0000

You have a minimal desktop but look at that busy menu bar! Try http://rosshill.com.au/minimal-mac-menubar/ and you’ll feel even less distracted.

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:02:30 +0000

Thanks!

To your success

By: kebabope

kebabope — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:18:48 +0000

Hey Glen,
I must say this a very detailed post, i am new to the concept of minimalism and don’t know what it actually means even though you explained it well here, i will be back to really internalize it. Good job

To your success,
~kebabope morapedi

By: mk akan

mk akan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:03:01 +0000

minimalism and automation are great …it helps you from getting distracted and gets thing done…

By: David Damron

David Damron — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:16:49 +0000

I am glad to see such a big time blogger implement minimalism so well.

As the founder of The Minimalist Path, I have learned so much and become so much more productive just through simple, easy changes.

I hope you keep it up as it may lead to even further personal and business development.

David Damron
The Minimalist Path

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:52:02 +0000

I’ve been trying to clean up the two computers that I use for work/play. I think this guide will help me out! Thanks, Glen.

By: Ruben Berenguel

Ruben Berenguel — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:31:04 +0000

I am with Oscar here, and use keyboard shortcuts for that. But in my Mac I am a bad advocate: I have thousands of icons in my desktop! The point is, I never ever see my desktop. In the rare event that I restart my Mac, Firefox launches automatically (as emacs and adium do), thus hiding everything in sight. Anyway, in my To Do list I have “clean up Mac’s desktop”. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow

Now, in my netbook (where I do most of my work, running Ubuntu 10.04 TLS) I don’t have a “proper” desktop: if I were to show my desktop window level (or root layer as is known in the Fluxbox window manager, which is what I use), there would be just a terminal blinking there, ready to compile, find or show top running programs, nothing more, nothing less. When I want to run an application I either open the Fluxbox menu (Control-Alt-x is my shortcut), or have a keyboard shortcut ready (Windows key F for Firefox, WK E for emacs, and a few more for quickies like that). And shift F-11 to open a file browser… Like using F11 to show desktop in my Mac Fluxbox is pure minimalism with respect to window managers… Wow, I feel like an advertisement of this. It is free software, you can find it in your Linux repositories

Ruben

By: Ryan @ Planting Dollars

Ryan @ Planting Dollars — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:41:23 +0000

I’ve read a ton of your articles, and this one has probably been the most useful to me as I try to manage a ton of clutter related to a couple of my websites, all my personal life information, and file backup… I’ll be using some of the tools you mention and have never seen such a clean desktop in my life! Very nice.

By: Jens P. Berget

Jens P. Berget — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:52:10 +0000

I have never thought much about minimalism until recently. Now, I’m following your examples although I have been using WriteRoom for a while. I have also been using Concentrate for Mac, it’s similar to SelfControl.

It’s a lot easier to get things done when I’m focusing on one thing at a time, and using software like WriteRoom.

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Six Figure Writing: My Journey from English Failure to Blogging Success — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:33:05 +0000

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