Hey there,
Welcome to a special issue of the Hulry newsletter. I have a milestone to share with you.
The Hulry project, the blog and this newsletter have now crossed the 1-year mark. ๐ฅณ
I'm beyond thrilled to be able to share my ideas and recommendations with friends all over the world for more than a year now.
Time flies so quickly.
It seems like yesterday when, I signed up for an account on WordPress, picked the default theme and started publishing my ideas on hulry.com.
At the start, I simply wanted a place to write and publish what I wanted to without any set rules or structure.
And this newsletter started as a short email recommending exciting stuff I've found online.
Fast forward a year, the blog has reached over 67.5K people, and this newsletter now reaches 500 subscribers every week.
Top that with the countless emails I've received thanking me for my blog posts or asking a follow-up question for one of my posts, Hulry has become an extraordinary project to me. โค๏ธ
I never imagined that so many people would relate to my workflows and ideas. So, thank you for supporting me along the way. ๐
Sure, this journey had its ups and downs. Nothing in life goes smoothly.
But:
After dedicating a significant amount of time and effort to this newsletter and the blog, I'm ecstatic than ever to keep bringing you stellar quality content.
Cheers to many more years of Hulry. ๐ฅ
Btw, on which topic would you like to see more articles on Hulry?
Now, grab a coffee, sit tight, and enjoy this week's issue:
Book to Read
Spark Joy
Marie Kondล will give you a guided approach to tidying up your home without breaking your head. I found this book to be filled with little techniques that help keep our home and workspace organised.
Get it from Amazon
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Apps & Services
Joggo โ
Hand-crafted summaries for your saved articles
Joggo is a read-it-later app that helps you in skimming through content by showing helpful summaries called
Jogs. Joggo relies on
a community of academics from top universities to hand-craft summaries for your saved articles, subscribed newsletters and more. While not all articles you save will immediately have a summary because these summaries are created by people rather than an AI, they
usually come up with summaries for new content within 24 hours of adding the link. So, like all summarising services, you can use this app for skimming through average content and setting apart high-quality ones for a more profound read.
This time-saving service is currently
100% free to use.
Grow โ
Track your daily habits automatically
Grow is a beautiful iOS app that automatically tracks your daily habits like sleep time, step count goals, meditation, etc. Grow pulls in data from the Apple Health app to show you a summary of your habits and alerts you when you've reached your daily
goals. Since the Apple Health app tracks your step count and sleep duration without your intervention, Grow also tracks these habits on its own. For other habits like mindfulness, popular apps like Headspace can input meditation data into
Apple Health, which gets shared with Grow. So, everything is automated for you. Grow is free to use for tracking up to two habits at a time, and then it's a $23.99/year upgrade.
You know what makes more impact than a regular PDF format resume? An ever-updated clean webpage showcasing your projects, past work experience, bio and more. This web app will help you set up a fantastic online CV with a couple of clicks and 15 mins of
your time. What's better?
Read.cv is a community of professionals. This means that interested people can reply to your online CV by leaving you a message and tag your CV while responding to someone else's job request. Think of it as a non-spammy LinkedIn. Have a look at
my partially completed CV for an idea. This app is free to use and is easy to get started.
Connected notes apps like
Roam Research and
Obsidian, where you can backlink notes
to form relationships amongst your notes, are getting popular each day. Reflect takes a niche approach to connected notes. Reflect lets you keep daily dated journals or notes that can be backlinked to a previous journal entry to build
your personal knowledge garden. Reflect separates itself from general note-taking apps because of their helpful integrations with Google to pull your calendar and meeting data and Kindle to pull your book notes into the app. Reflect is
currently in an invite-only stage, but I got to try it out, and it seemed pretty impressive. You can sign up to their waitlist to get invited soon. They're rolling out invites every day.
Taking the Shortcut
Indent the current paragraph towards the right on Google Docs.
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Interesting Reads
Reading about various Japanese philosophies have left a lasting impression on my life, in a good way. Recently, I've had a couple of moments where I could relate to these philosophies while making financial decisions. These concepts have taught me to
keep my spending in check and cut down unnecessary expenses. In this article, I'll talk about three such Japanese philosophies that have guided me towards making better money management choices. I'll be updating this article with more
philosophies as I encounter them in the future, so you can bookmark this page and revisit it for changes.
In this article, Susan talks about how she pruned and adjusted her busy routine into a compact or capsule version when she moved to her parents home for some family time. Travelling somewhere or taking some chill days doesn't mean you have to throw your
long-standing routine out the window. Instead, you can accommodate changes as they come in and keep doing the essentials that will help you stay on track. Habits take a long time to build, and while it's okay to miss a few days, it's mostly
possible to keep them going even when your life seems to be in flux.
It's true that we need discipline in our lives to be able to progress ahead. But, when you take the concept of getting things done too seriously, it can backfire. It's no fun to scold yourself for failing to meditate today or not going to the gym. When
you aim to do some activity because someone told you that you need to do it, it mostly fails. However, if you do the same activity because you enjoy the process and want to do it, then suddenly, the activity becomes much more enjoyable.
So, be disciplined, but be disciplined on the right things.
We make hundreds of decisions each day. Our life and our work are a result of how and what we decide. And not all decisions will be fruitful. Some will even be destructive to your life or your career. Here's where a decision journal comes in handy. A
decision journal is where you log your decisions as and when they happen. Then, at a later point in your life, you can come back to this journal and understand why you made a decision and the circumstances that led to the decision. The
more you retrospect your past, the better you can shape your life ahead.
Nathan Barry, the founder and CEO of the popular email marketing software
ConvertKit,
gives practical tips on how you can move up the ladders of wealth creation and amass a fortune. After a goldmine of advice, Nathan also talks about his journey from working at a Wendy's to selling eBooks online to founding a multi-million
dollar company over the years. I've been following Nathan's journey for years now, and this article is a peek into his mindset and his approaches that'll help anyone looking to maximise their earning potential.
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