Clipboard Managers, Timers, Hydration Tracking, Mac Automation, and Kali Malone

Apps:

• Paste — Clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Keeps everything you copy searchable and synced.
• Timer+ — Multiple simultaneous timers and stopwatches.
• WaterMinder — Water intake tracking with Apple Health sync.
• Keyboard Maestro — The Mac automation tool. If you can describe it, you can automate it.

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Now Playing:

Music for Intersecting Planes by Kali Malone & Leila Bordreuil — drone and cello.

eGFR Tools, Cognitive Labor, Blindsight Revisited, and Jazz for Reading

Tools:

• NIDDK's Calculators — We are particular about eGFRcr-cys calculators.
• eGFR Percentile Explorer — Visualize population-based eGFR distributions by age, sex, and estimating equation.

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Reading:

• The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After — Sahaj Garg on AI surpassing human cognitive capabilities and what happens to knowledge work.

• Did I really read Blindsight by Peter Watts in 2007 and forget about it completely? And then reread it in 2026?

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Office Music:

• Jazz for Reading — Spotify's jazz piano playlist.

Voice Apps, Smart Calendars, Flea's New Album, and a Surgeon's AI Morning Routine

Apps:

• Speechify — Text-to-speech for Kindle books, PDFs, and web articles.
• Wispr Flow — AI voice dictation that works in any app. Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android.
• For all its quirks, Reclaim.AI is still the best smart calendar app I've found.

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Now Playing:

Honora by Flea — new solo album, out this week.

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Reading:

• Warren Ellis Reviews Project Hail Mary — On the film adaptation of Andy Weir's novel.
• How Dr. Christian Pean Uses Claude Cowork Before Breakfast — An orthopedic surgeon's AI morning workflow.

Three Apps, a Tip, and the NephJC Kidneys Awards

📱 Apps:

	Jomo — screen time blocker
	Routinery — routine planner, habit tracker
	StressWatch — AI stress monitor

• iOS tip: you can jump straight to your App Store updates page by bookmarking itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates. Bypasses the front page, which I never want to see.
• AI and Medicine: Your Secret to Better Health — MasterClass with Dr. Suchi Saria, Raj Manrai, and Dr. Adam Rodman
• The 2026 NephJC Kidneys Award Winners

odds and ends

• ACME Weather — from the creators of Dark Sky
• Relaxing Piano Jazz — office playlist
• Morning music.

Link blogging is new again: KidneyNotes.com

— Joshua Schwimmer, MD (@joshuaschwimmer.bsky.social) 2026-03-27T22:16:29.751Z

Nephro Rounds

• PREVENT Calculator
• MGRS Calculator
• Epic EMR tip: use keyboard shortcuts. Alt-A could save you an hour a week.

A KDIGO commentary on B Cell and Complement guided therapy in IgAN www.kidney-international.org/article/S008... in Kidney Int Perfectly timed for #NephMadness (and this will be the champion)

— Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 (@hswapnil.medsky.social) 2026-03-26T09:19:01.296Z

Here is today's #eyeSCANdy! Scanning EM of a normal glomerulus showing a glomerular capillary loop with interdigitating podocyte foot processes. Photo courtesy of Dr. Stephen Bonsib. #renal #pathology #kidneypath

— Arkana Labs (@arkanalabs.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T13:03:16.071396Z

26Mar26

• ♪ This week's office music: Jazz for Study
  
• Troubadour Apex 4.0 Backpack — Best work bag I've ever had. Great on the subways. Multiple surprising and undocumented features.
• Gemini, when it makes an error, resembles Marvin the Paranoid Android.
• Biological War: A Scenario — Annie Jacobsen
• Current Reader App — RSS reader by Jupiter Interactive Group LLC. $9.99.
• Bevel: All-In-One Health App — Favorite all-in-one health app. Covers exercise, sleep, and nutrition — iPhone and Apple Watch.

Background music for seeing patients this week.

Brain.FM.

Local hero wins at football and CKD

Dr. Joel Topf: 

With the stroke of a pen, his wait time moved from late 2021 to early 2018. An additional three years. This was enough to thrust him near to the top of the list. In September of 2024, Norris got his kidney and three days later he was home with a falling creatinine, feeling better than he had in years. A lot of people worked hard to remove race from eGFR equations. It can feel like an abstract policy debate. But sometimes it looks like this.

This Week's Background Music While Seeing Patients