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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged Fail, 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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged David Allen, Organizing, Podcast, ProductivityI 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 [...]
Also tagged Jack Shephard, LOST, Personal Hygiene, Productivity, Save TimeI’ve said it before (and by said, I mean written), and I’ll say it again: Multitasking Doesn’t Work. In Brain Rules, John Medina points out that the brain cannot multitask: We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously. I like the specificity of that sentence and how it gets the point across in so [...]
Also tagged Lateral Action, Multitasking, Productivity, Task SwitchingMusical Accompaniment: Chain Gang – Sam Cooke There is a site called Don’t Break The Chain based on the Seinfeldian wisdom that if you a) have daily task, and b) mark days on a calendar in which you completed that task, you c) build up a chain on the calendar that you don’t want to [...]
Also tagged DontBreakTheChain, How ToNo, that’s not a typo. This tip has seriously saved me hours since I started using it. Choose (and Remember) Great Passwords. You don’t need to remember 100 passwords if you have 1 rule set for generating them. One way to generate unique passwords is to choose a base password and then apply a rule [...]
Also tagged Lifehacker, PasswordsI don’t know how this is going to work once we start Waving everybody, but for now, this is how I populate my To Read List without using Delicious or Instapaper or {Your App Here}, but rather with a tool that requires no additional sign-ups: Email. Okay, I lied a little. You’ll need an RSS [...]
Also tagged Gmail, Google Reader, iPhone, Offline Apps, Productivity, To Read