The smartphone has become the most powerful and most distracting device we own. But does it really have to be that way In this episode of the How I Tech series, I explore my relationship with the device that’s always in my pocket. From notifications and social media to Focus Modes, CarPlay and grayscale screens, I explain…
In an age where information overloads us, where distractions hide behind every pixel and notifications pounce us like hungry lions in the savannah, one thing remains who-fully out of reach: The joy staying in the zone and getting something done. Of experiencing moments where you are in control of what you want to create or…
Technology should help you focus, not distract you. So in this episode of the How I Tech series, I take you through the devices I use every day and explain why I chose them. From a Linux-powered laptop rescued from the recycling center to an 11-inch iPad, an iPhone and an Android e-reader, every piece of gear…
A good and long term friend of the show gave me a quiet tap on the shoulder yesterday on one line that had gotten pasted into the article about Writerdeck. A classic “I left your original grammatical style and humour and corrected some spelling mistakes”. Yep, typical brown-nosing by AI after I asked it to…
My latest YouTube excursion has a name: Writerdecks. In the quest for creativity, people (like me) often look for distraction-free environments that leave room to think and create instead of scroll and consume. One of those solutions is the writerdeck. The concept? Imagine a typewriter without paper. There you have it. A writerdeck is a super-simple keyboard-and-screen…
Welcome to the 19th rebirth of the Knightwise.com’s podcast: a fresh start marked by our first episode within what we’re callingthe ‘post-cross-platform’ era! This is the launch of a scripted series on “How I Tech” where I’m delving deep into my “Digital Environment” and detailing the tech choices that drive it. We’re focusing intensely on…
Becoming (or staying) creative in today’s distraction filled world is challenging at best. Trying to find a pause in between the constant torrents of never ending infinitely scrolling content is hardly impossible. There are always things grabbing your attention and spewing noise that prevents you to find the silence (and the boredom) to let your…
Why! That is probably the post important question when it comes down to my latest venture back into Linux-Desktop-Land. That wonderful labyrinth of a thousand distributions, millions of packages, billions of bug requests and about 5 decent pages of documentation. Who on earth would wonder of the beaten path of tried and trusted (though somewhat…
How long does “the laptop” have left One day we might look back at this post and laugh. “Remember when we thought laptops were doomed?” But here in 2025, it’s a fair question: How long before mobile and desktop operating systems slam into each other like two black holes that have been circling for years?…
Picking up on last week’s post about introducing the Boox Palma into my digital life, I’ve been diving a bit deeper into the idea of pre-selecting your content. Serendipity or not, in the latest podcast episode by Cal Newport, he mentioned a fascinating concept: the “non-algorithmic internet”. It’s a way of interacting with the online…
In my previous article, I mentioned that we all need an iPod. To disconnect, to focus, to consume whatever we want to consume. To escape the addictive world of endless scrolling and pause for a second to ask ourselves: What do I want to do? That, in essence, is what I was aiming for when…
Yes, dear readers. It’s finally happened. I’ve driven my mental dune buggy off the road and am now axle-deep in the muck of digital nostalgia, pining for devices that have outlived their usefulness (and their expiration date) and are considered “rare” when dug up by digital palaeontologists. I am well aware of the fact that…
This week KD and Knightwise dive into the maddeningly useful and seemingly universal digital communications technology: email. LINKS DISCORD The action is happening over at our Discord server: Join by clicking this link CREDITS Mix & Production: Keith Murray Related PostsKW1801 – Choosing Your Path in the JungleKW1903-How I Tech- Episode 3: The phone in…
Knightwise is joined this week by KD to discuss the general ideas around how we can approach technology with a more intentional attitude. With the advent of algorithms and the attention economy it’s more important than ever that we learn how to make technology work for us, instead of the other way around. LINKS DISCORD…
The return of the Jedi, The return of the king. Somehow it feels like all third instalments feature the return of … something. Why should my epic journey in e-paperland stray from that path: it”s time for “The return of the Kindle”. Yes, more then a 1,5 year after I stuffed my un-used (slightly cracked)…
48 hours. That is the total time my latest geek purchase has been in my possession. Barely did the Kobo Elipsa come from the package, or the return-to-sender slip was rolling out of the printer. TLDR? : Wonderful hardware, terrible software. The years between my last Kobo (somewhere in 2012) and the purchase of my…
If you would have been looking at my Youtube and Reddit stats it might have become clear very quickly: Yes! Knightwise is on a gadget hunt again. For some strange reason I have found myself fascinated by the new larger E-ink devices out there and I have waded into the world of over-enthusiastic Youtubers and…
From when I was a young squire, I’ve been using highlighters and a pencil to study. I would get my schoolbooks, mark all the important sections with a highlighter and then convert said information into Q&A cards to help me internalise the information. I would go out for long walks and quiz myself on the…
“So, What are you reading ?” That’s a question we get more often these days, especially since whatever book i’m into, is not obvious by its cover. For the last 18 years I’ve been ruining my eyes on the displays of various electronic readers, so whatever work of literature I indulge in, is not obvious…
I’ve been a space geek all my life and to me, the big black universe has always fascinated me. Why? Because space is big and full of possibilities. It’s a “space” that is big enough to encompass all the possibilities of “what’s out there” that I can think of. That feeling of “vastness” is hard…
Since we are on the theme of “Remember 20 years ago ?”, let’s talk Linux. I think it was somewhere in the last days of 2004 I heard about this Linux distribution called “Ubuntu”. I had been dabbling with Linux since the early 2000’s but it never ever “went” anywhere. Distro hopping to find a…
My Gmail inbox, a wasteland of forgotten times, got an interesting email today: A congratulatory message from LiveJournal, telling me it had been almost 2 decades since my first post. … Two decades? I hopped over to Knightwise.com to investigate and did find out that indeed, in 2004 i scribbeled down my first thoughts during…
It feels like ages since I’ve been here. Pounding out words on a keyboard and sending them up to the internets. Well, I guess that is life, right? Sometimes things get “in the way” and before you know it months fly by and you haven’t touched your blog at all. Shame really. Especially considering this…
In my last blogpost I had been pondering the idea of a « Lightphone » where I was specifically looking for a phone that would allow me to consume podcasts, navigate and communicate if needed. One of the reasons the Unihertz Titan jumped out at me was because of its rugged interface and the fact…
There are 2 kinds of phones: The Smartphone, those highly addictive pieces of glass we carry around in our pocket, that keep us glued to the screen and are the source of many hours of entertainment, games, text messages, videocalls and more ( oh yeah, and sometimes people actually « call » you ) and…
Whenever you think Knightwise.com the tagline must somehow stil ring in your head « On the edge of real and Cyberspace ». And with « the edge » I don’t always mean the latest, newest or hippest techno hype that is going around. It shouldn’t always deal with the arrowhead of digital progress, it might…
I love a good paranormal incident, I love history AND I love retro computers. Would there be anything out there that would combine all these three interests? Funny you should ask because .. There is. The Dodleston Messages (also referred to as The Dodleston Files) is a bizarre series of paranormal events that involve an…
Do YOU use a VPN? It’s a question you hear a lot from time to time. VPN’s used to be for people who wanted to tunnel back to the office to access a boring spreadsheet on some slow fileserver or print their daughters birthday invitations on the company dime. It used to be about tunneling…
A rainy day on holiday secluded in a tiny village in the Jura mountains in France is the ideal place to pucker around with applications that don’t require a lot of bandwidth. Why? Because I have one bar on my 4G connection and i’m a huge nerd with love for command line applications. So time…
The year is 2023 and I am looking back at (almost) 23 years of « Knightwise.com ». What started out as a humble personal website borked together in Frontpage Express (later Dreamweaver) has roamed the net in many forms since. From a silly static website, to a Livejournal blog, later a Blogger Blog and finally…
