PLAIN TEXT; PAPER, LESS — PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST

PTPL 105: Plain Text Budgeting Progress — Paper Made My Markdown Tables Better

Plus how to move multiple iPhone app icons between screens

Plain text, Paper, Less (PTPL) Productivity Digest, text-based image by Author

This week: Using paper for finance tracking has been invaluable for helping me understand the process, shaping my Markdown budget trackers into a text-based, hands-on envelope budgeting approach. Simple calculations mean I can take charge of my incomings and outgoings without a standard spreadsheet.

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iPhone screen organising tip

You may already know how to move a bunch of iPhone app icons from one screen to another in one move, but until this week, I didn’t. It’s a trick that would have saved me a lot (a LOT) of time and frustration in times past!

1. Long press on an app until it jiggles
2. With your finger on one of the apps you want to move, tap the other apps you want to move and they’ll stack themselves in line with the one you’re holding. You can then drag the stack to its new location.

So simple!

Plain text budgeting — there’s…