Introducing the Daily Digest

For some time now it’s been possible to subscribe to a daily email summarising the latest entries on Simple Desks. It’s been moderately popular, despite little promotion, and the time’s come for a little revamp. As before, it’ll include the same content featured on the site, collected into a friendly little digest every day in your inbox. The only change is a stylistic one, with the aim being to mirror more closely the experience of the website. Those of you already subscribed to the old newsletter don’t need to resubscribe.

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A Note About Submissions

Just a quick post to reassure you all that I have not forgotten about the many submissions I receive. At this point I have a huge backlog to clear, and (nonsensically) this has led to me avoiding my inbox completely - out of sight, out of mind. I’m often busy these days, but I do plan to resume posting submissions on a regular basis at some point soon. To those of you who have submitted in the past, I’m very grateful and at some point you will probably see them on the site.

In the mean time, please do continue submitting - I love seeing them and they will in most cases appear on Simple Desks eventually. You can do so here.

The Great Outdoors: Really wanted to work outside today. I know the feeling…as I’ve said before, it’s a very inspiring and motivational environment in which to work, in my experience. I just wish it were easier to do so - all it takes is a little rain to cause some very expensive problems. Since I live in the UK, rain isn’t exactly rare, so sadly it just isn’t practical for much of the year. Original source: Instagram, via The Atomic Lizard Blog.

The Great Outdoors:

Really wanted to work outside today.

I know the feeling…as I’ve said before, it’s a very inspiring and motivational environment in which to work, in my experience. I just wish it were easier to do so - all it takes is a little rain to cause some very expensive problems. Since I live in the UK, rain isn’t exactly rare, so sadly it just isn’t practical for much of the year.

Original source: Instagram, via The Atomic Lizard Blog.

Multi-purpose Productivity: A nice example of a non committal workspace - that is, a workspace that doesn’t carry the stigma of ‘work’. More and more I’m finding that there’s a lot of benefit to be found in utilising areas you associate with more positive actions to be productive. The multi-purpose nature of what looks like a dining table in this case seems like a nice example. Original source: Unknown, via Convoy.

Multi-purpose Productivity:

A nice example of a non committal workspace - that is, a workspace that doesn’t carry the stigma of ‘work’. More and more I’m finding that there’s a lot of benefit to be found in utilising areas you associate with more positive actions to be productive. The multi-purpose nature of what looks like a dining table in this case seems like a nice example.

Original source: Unknown, via Convoy.

Jane Cameron’s Workspace: This is one view of my office. The table, made from reclaimed Oregon, is actually about 8 ft. long and fits a number of computers along it, which comes in very handy as Annabelle comes to town a couple days a week so we can work on the magazine together. The Venus chair is from Freedom, the FORSÅ work lamp is from Ikea, the artwork hanging on the wall is a Black Robin Tea Towel by Bonnie & Neil, and the black resin Small Earth Bowl is from Dinosaur Designs. I painted some Ikea wooden storage boxes white, then applied Dymo labels – I am thoroughly addicted to that little machine. Part of my string collection sits on top of the boxes. One of my Victorian brown & white transferware tureens, bought at auction, sits on a David Bromley pedestal that I painted black. A nice workspace from Jane Cameron. As you can see above, she gives a lot of detail into what she used to create it, and the post over at Design Sponge is well worth a read. Original source: Design Sponge.

Jane Cameron’s Workspace:

This is one view of my office. The table, made from reclaimed Oregon, is actually about 8 ft. long and fits a number of computers along it, which comes in very handy as Annabelle comes to town a couple days a week so we can work on the magazine together. The Venus chair is from Freedom, the FORSÅ work lamp is from Ikea, the artwork hanging on the wall is a Black Robin Tea Towel by Bonnie & Neil, and the black resin Small Earth Bowl is from Dinosaur Designs. I painted some Ikea wooden storage boxes white, then applied Dymo labels – I am thoroughly addicted to that little machine. Part of my string collection sits on top of the boxes. One of my Victorian brown & white transferware tureens, bought at auction, sits on a David Bromley pedestal that I painted black.

A nice workspace from Jane Cameron. As you can see above, she gives a lot of detail into what she used to create it, and the post over at Design Sponge is well worth a read.

Original source: Design Sponge.