| Merlin Dean Mann III | |
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| Born | November 26, 1966 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. |
| Nationality | American |
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Merlin Dean Mann III (born November 26, 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) writes the blog 43 Folders. He received a B.A. from New College of Florida,[1] and he currently resides in San Francisco, California with his wife, Madeline Mann, and their daughter, Eleanor.
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Mann is the founder and writer of 43 Folders, a blog about "finding the time and attention to do your best creative work."
On August 18, 2009, Mann announced[2] that he was writing a book titled Inbox Zero, about "how to reclaim your email, your attention, and your life." On April 22, 2011 Mr. Mann announced that he had quit his book project. [3]
Mann also writes for his personal blog, Kung Fu Grippe. In the past, Mann has written articles for the magazines Macworld, Make, and Popular Science.
As a companion to 43 Folders, Mann launched the 43 Folders Podcast in 2005. After a nearly two-year hiatus that began in August 2007, the podcast returned in January 2009, but again went quiet in March 2009.
In 2007, Mann, Adam Lisagor, and Scott Simpson launched You Look Nice Today, a comedy podcast that bills itself as "a journal of emotional hygiene." [4]
Since January 18, 2011, he has co-hosted the weekly "Back to Work" podcast with Dan Benjamin on 5by5. In September 2011, Mann launched Roderick on the Line, a weekly conversation with musician/writer John Roderick.
Mann has also produced QPR: Quotidian Public Radio, an audio podcast launched in January 2009 that is billed as "audio comfort food for annoyed liberals in fleece." Previously, Mann was one of the hosts on the MacBreak video podcast and a core host on the MacBreak Weekly audio podcast. Since 2008, he has scaled back his appearances on the series.
In the past, Mann appeared on other podcasts, including as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio show/podcast Spark, The ProfHacker Podcast, Scruffy Thinking and various episodes of Dan Benjamin's The Conversation.[5]
In early 2009, Mann produced a short video series, Most Days.
On February 26, 2007, Mann launched The Merlin Show, a video podcast primarily dedicated to long form interviews.
Mann has also published a long-running series of video shorts named That Phone Guy.
Mann is the namer and popularizer of the Hipster PDA, a paper-based, DIY personal organizer that uses design cues found in David Allen's Getting Things Done.
Mann is also known for his work with Quicksilver, a program used for quickly executing actions from the keyboard in Mac OS X, along with The Omni Group's OmniFocus.
Mann was a member of the indie rock band Bacon Ray from 1994 to 1999 in Tallahassee, Florida[6] Additionally, he started a cover song project of Will Oldham's song "I Am a Cinematographer."[7]