Zen Habits has a very good list of things that will help you simplify your work day. Most of these I’ve seen before, but here’s a new one (which is sort of similar to other things I’ve seen, but different enough I thought it was worth quoting): # Practice a focus ritual. Every hour or [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Personal Improvement, Productivity, Zen HabitsI’ve been using RescueTime for a while now, and while it hasn’t really improved my productivity, that’s mostly because I’m actually really productive already. And I can prove it thanks to RescueTime. RescueTime is an software application you install on your computer that tracks the active application and logs that information so you can view [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Productivity, RescueTime, SoftwareTwo hits from Lifehacker today: Hustle When You Want to Learn New Things and Ira Glass on Getting Creative Work Done. The first is the key to the door, and it’s easy to insert and unlock: Hustle. Simple as that. If you want to do something: do something. If want want to make progress towards [...]
Tagged Fail, Getting Things Done, Hustle, Ira Glass, LifehackerDuring the live Mindsweeping event on Twitter (@GTDSpecialEvent) I was basically writing down all my “mindsweep material” in a plain text document because when I put Next Actions into Remember The Milk, I like to tag them, put them in a context list, and prioritize them right away.* Of course, after reviewing the items in [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Mindsweep, Productivity, Remember The MilkNear the end of this podcast on Organizing, Robert (David Allen’s tech guy) makes the point, basically, that you are the boss of your future self. By “boss” he means, in the traditional 9-5 working for the man way. Why is that important (as a concept)? Well, would you rather have your boss just dump [...]
Tagged David Allen, Getting Things Done, Organizing, Podcast, ProductivityRhyme time, baby. The subject line is in regard to a fault of mine when it comes to personal commitments (like cutting my hair, mowing the lawn, going to the grocery store). I tend to overestimate the amount of time and effort that are required to do simple activities like those mentioned above, and as [...]
I call it the Jack Shephard method, i.e., you either keep it really short, or don’t cut it at all. Either method will save you both time and money. I usually go with short in the summer and let it grow more in the winter. I had a friend in high school who would shave [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Jack Shephard, LOST, Personal Hygiene, Productivity, Save TimeI was worried about wasting a lot of time trying to figure this out, but since there are a few projects at work that are using Drupal, I thought it would be worth it to get some familiarity with the platform. All told, it only took a few hours to get things going, and at [...]
Tagged Drupal, Getting Things Done, Personal Wiki, WikiAn easy way to create an electronic Tickler file is by using Google Calendar, which can send you email, SMS, and “pop-up” reminders (which act as alerts when you sync with the iPhone Calendar), for any and all events you want. But what about stuff that you don’t really want to see cluttering up your [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Google Calendar, Mind Like Water, My Memory SucksSo, I downloaded the Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 build since I saw a chart that showed how much faster it is than the version of FF I was running. Unfortunately, that same chart also showed how much faster Chrome 2 and Safari 4* were than even the Beta Firefox build. So I also downloaded the [...]
Tagged Getting Things Done, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Remember The Milk