![]() ![]() Sort of.Īnyhoo, once you have your to-do list set up, you will want 24/7 access to it, and you will begin keeping a tab open in your browser for it. Well, that or maybe representative government. ![]() There is nothing quite so liberating as a to-do list that follows you everywhere you go, from desktop to laptop to phone to tablet. If you don’t, proceed immediately to and sign up for an account. I’m assuming you already use a to-do list like Wunderlist or Toodledo. MenuTab Pro for Google Calendar is a simple app that keeps your Google calendar in your menu bar, out of sight and out of mind – until you need it. Get all of those pinned tabs out of the way and up into the menu bar, where you can access them when you need them without the psychological overhead of a browser. Similar competing apps exist, as do menu bar apps for Yahoo Mail and other services, but I can’t vouch for those. $1.99 for the pro version there is also a free version available. It looks and behaves exactly like gmail in your browser, but tucked neatly into your menu bar. MailTab Pro for Gmail is a menu bar app that alerts you when email arrives and gives you quick, browser-less access to read and compose. You only need to do this once, the first time it downloads.ĭo you keep your email open in a browser tab at all times? Of course you do – what do I think you are, some kind of Luddite? Well, stop it. *I had one hiccup on Linux - after Dropbox syncs EncryptedVolume to your Linux box, you need to give yourself write permission to the file, or the drive will be mounted read-only. But CCC is already the bedrock of my backup solution, so it made sense to leverage it here, too. Of course, you can do this without CCC, as long as you don’t mind a little manual housekeeping. ![]() So if my computing situation changes and I’m ever in a pinch, I can open my encrypted documents on any computer* (I also chose to format EncryptedVolume as FAT for the same reason). I chose VeraCrypt both because it’s open source and because it’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux. That’s the best compromise I could find between convenience and security. CCC will only copy the updates, Dropbox will only upload the file difference, and nothing will be uploaded until the drive is encrypted and unmounted again. So everything is both efficient and secure during each step. ![]() And when you do have time, and/or you make important updates, use Carbon Copy Cloner to re-sync the folder to EncryptedVolume. Now you can just use your ~/Documents/Encrypted folder on an ongoing basis, and you don’t have to fool with opening encrypted volumes or anything else when you’re in a rush. Use Carbon Copy Cloner ($40 worth it) to clone ~/Documents/Encrypted to EncryptedVolume.Use VeraCrypt (free) to create an encrypted volume we’ll call it EncryptedVolume.Create a folder in ~/Documents called Encrypted.The system I’ve set up on my OS X Yosemite machine is this: If that’s enough for you, more power to you.) (Yes, I know Dropbox encrypts your data already. The problem, as I see it, is that the important stuff needs off-site backup - but the important stuff tends to be the same as the sensitive stuff, so it’s exactly the stuff that shouldn’t just be sitting on Dropbox. I spent this week searching for and experimenting with possible solutions, and I’ve now got a system in place that I’m pretty happy with, so I thought I’d share. ![]()
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