This Weekʼs Line-Up

What a great idea: this beautiful wooden laptop stand turns into a wall-mounted standing desk whenever you want. Need a resting place for your laptop near the kitchen or in the living room? Simply screw the pair of wooden knobs in the wall and, voilà, your standing desk is ready (and disappears again when you need the space).

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned how I'm torn between Sunrise and Fantastical as my preferred choice for a calendar app. Yesterday I stumbled across Plan (Mac and iPhone apps coming soon), which seems like a very neat way to combine my to-do list (see below) and my appointments. I'm giving Plan a spin for a week. Let's see how long I last...

Perfectionism is something many of us struggle with — not just in our work, but in everyday life, in our relationships and our hobbies. The Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi will help you accept, embrace and celebrate the imperfect. Wabi-Sabi is everything that today’s sleek, mass-produced, technology-saturated culture is not. This little booklet by Leonard Koren covers the basics and only takes an hour or so to read. (Oh, and there's a brand new follow-up book by him too!)

There are a bazillion to-do list managers out there, but the truth is I find it hard to be disciplined about managing my to-dos digitally. Any.Do, with its extremely simple column layout, is the first app I've stuck to for more than a few weeks. The reason: when I create a to-do item, I only have to decide whether the task is due today, tomorrow, soon, or some day. This super simple approach makes the entire process a lot more actionable and managable for me. Fingers crossed that I can actually stick to it.

The people from StickerMule have a new sister site and it's all about pin buttons (and not about frogs). We all know that your startup doesn't really exist until you shower your early adopters with free stickers — and now buttons.

I'm still not sure what it is that makes we want to work from and hang out at cafés. It sure isn't the $4.50 coffee. (I can brew a mean cup myself, at home.) Maybe the ambient sound of people chatting and coming and going helps me feel more productive and connected. Coffitivity has the science behind it, and offers a library of coffee shop sounds to immitate the real café experience. Finally, there is no more reason to leave home...