It’s interesting how software can completely change your daily habits. Sometimes for the worse!
When I got my new Mac recently, I installed session manager for Firefox. Yesterday, at the AIMIA Experience Web3 - Embracing the Semantic Web function, I realised that one decision during the session manager install (with just one click of the mouse) had changed my daily behaviour dramatically.
I was chatting to a friend about how I had stopped using Netvibes. He asked ‘why? It’s so cool!’ And I said, ‘well it’s not set as my homepage any more.’ ‘Yeh, but you’re missing out James’, he said.
Then I realised that I had set Firefox to recover my previous browsing session upon start up. See below:
This meant that I had :
- Stopped using Netvibes
- Stopped reading my RSS feeds
- Stopped reading the daily news
And most importantly:
- I was stuck in my yesterday. Forever looking back at what I was doing when I last shut down.
In fact, every now and then I accidentally closed off the previous days efforts and thought to myself ‘Mmm - what am I missing out on?’
‘Nothing you idiot! That was yesterday.’
This morning I changed it back to this.
And set my homepage tabs to:
The untitled one on the right makes it easy to open a new url quickly.
My digestion (of information) has already improved and I am living more in the moment. 
Are you ’stuck’ in a place your shouldn’t be with any of your apps?
P.S. I love Skitch for Mac… How easy is it to upload retouched images to ur blog! Thanks Mick!