Helping Creative People Create

February 2007

Think Think is a cool little app for OS X that tries to eliminate visual distractions from your computer screen while you work. From the Think website: Focusing takes concentration, and concentration takes energy. You can only concentrate on so much at a time, and you can’t create more energy. What we need to do ...

Done by an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. (Significant because KSU is my alma-matter’s rival.)

Since we’ve launched the Big List of Online Productivity Tools, I thought it would be good to show examples of a more physical type of GTD. That’s right boys and girls, we’re travelling back in time to a place where people still use paper, pens, sticky notes and actual wall calendars. This is organization at ...

Wouldn’t it be nice to have all of the online productivity app in one place? Well, now there is! I’ve started LifeDev’s very own Big List of Online Productivity Tools. However, it is by no means complete. At all. Although there are a lot of great productivity applications on this list, it’s still lacking some ...

Whoops, I forgot to post this yesterday.  I’ve been writing some blog tips for Problogger these past few weeks, and yesterday I had another article published. How to Blog with “Voice” and Increase Community and Readership I don’t know how many of you already read Problogger (probably loads), but if you don’t, check it out. ...

Gmail has just added a new feature (at least to my Gmail account) that allows you to open attached documents with Google Documents in a new window. Pretty slick!

Oddly enough, this makes sense. Typically, when one things of creative settings, one thinks of the open sea, or an endless skyline, or a blank canvas.  All of these things have one common theme between them: endless possibilities. However, if we really need to think creatively, we almost need to have some boundaries.  Why?  Well, ...

Looks like the online productivity app Remember the Milk has just added a dashboard widget for OS X.  This handy widget shows your tasks, either from a specific list or all of your lists. I’ve tried out RTM before, and really liked it. They’ve got a great feature set and is one of my favorite ...

Part 2 of The GTD Cheatsheet series. Now that we’ve set the groundwork for our GTD workflow, it’s time to put it into use. For a quick refresher (it was a long weekend), the workflow basically categorizes all of our stuff (both physical and mental) that we want to organize into whether a) it’s doable ...

I’ve found this true so many times in my life. Recently I was awaken by a phone call at 5:45 in the morning, and couldn’t go back to sleep. So, I took a shower, made a great breakfast, and got working. By the time it was 9:30, I had done more than I usually did ...

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