Making your right side of the brain work in tandem with your left side of the brain is hard work. Trying to mix creativity with procedures and orders usually goes together about as well as oil and water. For most people, the left side of the brain is what’s used most in our orderly, bullet-point ...
From the monthly archives:
November 2006
Quicksilver is a great Mac app for smartly launching any application based on your preferences. In short: less clicks, more action. It can even do web searches. Now you can include killer GTD functionality with Quicksilver via Actiontastic integration. One of the most basic tenets of GTD is brain dumping; getting all those projects and ...
It’s true: some of us are just more prone to slack off. Typically, that’s viewed as a bad thing. But, it doesn’t have to be all bad. Maybe we should just accept the fact that we’re going to slack off, despite our best efforts. To compensate for our resistance to work, Jason Womack at Davidco ...
David Seah has just reached rockstar status in my book. He’s just created the coolest variation (and far and away the geekiest) of the Hipster PDA. The Arm-mounted Index Card Scabbard, or ICS. First made popular by quarterbacks, the arm-mounted scabbard is useful for people who don’t have the luxury of having pockets, or want ...
Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks context is vital. While most of my thoughts have to do with capturing ideas and organization, there are other areas where context is crucial. Let’s take programming for an example. I know only enough about programming to be dangerous. (And I don’t mean dangerous in a James ...
There was quite a bit of buzz this week on how to become more efficient with email on LifeDev and around the web. Here’s some of the posts from this last week. Email Yourself Tasks To Stop Forgetting Give Your Email Subjects Some Soul Tips For Keeping Your Gmail Inbox Empty How To Free Up ...
