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Just a reminder that my offer for a crazy amazing 20%-off lifetime discount with A2 Web Hosting expires in 13 short days.

That means you have until December 31st to join up at A2 with checkout code “43f20” — that locks-in 20% off your web hosting fees for the life of your relationship with the lovable A2 crew. They’ve hosted the 43 Folders empire for over 2 years now, and they’ve been awesome to work with.

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Since we’ve begun to break from the tradition of totally Merlin-centric blog posting on 43 Folders, here’s some answers to theoretical questions people may have about our new bloggers and their contributions.  read more »

Since 43 Folders launched three years ago, I’ve been thrilled and humbled by the insight that readers, commenters, and the occasional guest blogger have brought to this modest undertaking. And I’ve regretted that it’s been a little clunky to properly share those insights with the same authority and promotion as your hapless author’s contributions. Well, I think we’re about to get better at that.  read more »

This afternoon we’re (softly, gently) rolling out a new version of 43Folders.com. Here’s some of the new stuff that’s happening.

Without going into extreme amounts of nerd detail, 43 Folders now runs on a content management system called Drupal that lets us do a bunch of neat stuff I’ve been wanting to do for a while now…  read more »

One of the coolest changes with the new 43f is the introduction of free site membership. Signing in with your 43f account gives you the ability to comment on articles, post to the forum, and more (actually much more soon, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves).

Here’s more detail on signing up, or — if you were already a member of our previous forum (board.43folders.com) — here’s info on how to sign in using that existing account.  read more »

Legal Stuff & Disclaimers

Tedious junk that it’s still important to mention and get out of the way.

Hello.

This is 43 Folders, Merlin Mann’s family of websites about stuff like personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. Thanks for dropping by.  read more »

Pardon a meta post, but I wanted to offer an apology for the paucity of new feature-length posts here recently, as well as to provide some context for where that time’s been going. A little “behind the scenes” insight, if you’re curious.  read more »

I’ve recently added a 43 Folders job board, and I wanted our first post about it to feature family, so I asked some friends to post open positions in their organizations.

• Support Ninja - The Omni Group, Seattle, WA
• Marketing Manager - Adaptive Path, San Francisco, CA
• Intern / Indentured Servant - The Sound of Young America, Los Angeles, CA
• Designer - Grockit, Inc., Telecommute
• Chief Wiki Czar(ina) - 43 Folders, San Francisco, CA

We also carry jobs posted from selected other sites, so there’s already plenty to browse. Want to be an iPhone Engineer at Apple? How about working for The Motley Fool? Maybe just make a quick $1,000.00 on a referral? Well, dig in.

And for the folks out there who need to put butts in Aerons, it’s fast and easy to add your own organization’s jobs to the board. Plus your job may be featured in posts here on the site highlighting the more interesting-looking positions that have been added. (Hint: Check the footer of posts in the 43f RSS feed for news about a substantial launch week discount — ends 7/20, so act soonly)

Thanks for the interest everyone has expressed in us adding a job board — whether you’re looking or hiring, I hope you’ll find it useful and vocationally satisfying.  read more »