As I David Seah wrestle with his productivity, I can’t help but empathize with him. I’ve thought that if I could just find the **magical combination of workflow tools **, I could get more into a habit of being productive and be relaxed and happy. I know I tend toward impulsive behavior, so creating systems ...
February 2007
Workhack.com is such an easy todo list/writeboard application. There’s nothing to it (almost literally). It was built with the goal of keeping distractions limited. There’s nothing flashy about this application at all. The only ajax that’s used is the ability to drag and drop your list items. You can start creating todo lists without any ...
Van’s got a simple and cheap way to keep your desk clean for under $35. Don’t believe me? Well 2,000 rabid Diggers can’t be wrong. That’s the best part about being a geek: you can always find a cheaper, more efficient way of doing something, instead of paying for the packaged version at Office Depot. ...
Sorry for the alliteration folks. I just couldn’t help myself. I’ll try to keep that at a minimum in the future. I recently had the pleasure of checking out MindMeister, a mind mapping service that rivals the likes of Bubbl.us. Mindmeister is great for anyone wanting to quickly dump their thoughts or ideas into graphical ...
Since it’s Friday, and we usually like to keep things pretty casual around here, I thought I’d post a quirky screenshot of LifeDev’s traffic for yesterday, according to Alexa (click to get a better view). Apparently, we’re not that popular of a blog, with yesterday’s reach at 0.00055%. And I thought it had been a ...
This is the third installment in the GTD Cheatsheet series. Ahh, here comes the rewarding part. We’ve brushed up on the learning curve associated with becoming familiar with the workflow. We’ve got all of our stuff collected. Now we’re ready to plow through our huge mound of collected stuff and get to done! This post ...
Sometimes there’s no better way to learn than to see a master at work. Take chef Grant Achatz and his interesting creations of food as a case study. Grant is constantly making new dishes that defy conventional tastes. His creations contain strange concoctions such as soy sauce and chocolate, or olives in desert. And he’s ...
Nozbe is a just-launched GTD productivity app that allows people to easily create contexts, projects, tasks and notes via a simple web interface. It’s much like Backpack except it was built with the Getting Things Done methodology in mind. The thing I really dig about Nozbe is the fact that you can work in contexts ...
While we’re in the thick of grasping Getting Things Done, now would be a good time to show an example of how to use this practical organization skill set to web applications. One Cranky Coot has a writeup on how he manages an entire GTD system with only Google products. It’s pretty amazing if you ...
