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GTD Wallpaper: A Fun Reminder For Your Desktop

Just when you thought GTD fanatics could take it any farther, Stefanos Karagos up and creates this cool GTD wallpaper for your desktop.� Now you’ll always know what to do next! Available in 3:4 and Widescreen

Only 15% Of Your Next Actions Require Any Thinking, Slacker

There’s a great GTD recap over at the Polar Beer.  It was quite refreshing to go over a condensed section that was closest to my heart: Getting Projects Creatively Underway. In our quest for mastering the GTD principles, it sometimes seems that mapping out every single nitpicky action for a project is a little overkill.  ...

Project And Action Verbs List To Speed Up GTD

By beginning your next actions with verbs, you’ve instantly honed in on what it is you’ll be doing. Yet sometimes it’s just not that easy to give an appropriate action with a standard, blah verb. Enter 43Folders to the rescue. Merlin’s got a killer list of action verbs and project verbs to use when making ...

Why Idea Dumping Makes You A Zen Master (Or At Least A Better Writer)

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 ...

New Release of Actiontastic, GTD’ing Quicksilver Users Breathe Collective Sigh of Relief

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 ...

Embrace Procrastination

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 ...

Programmers Need Context Too

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 ...

How To Get Up Early: Alarm Clock Hide-And-Seek

Ok, this is one of those things that I just need to link to. No words do it justice. Clocky [via kaboomerang]

Commitment = Freedom

When I first hear the word commitment, the first thing that pops into my head is marriage.  This isn’t particularly a good word association to have for a bachelor.  So naturally, you can see why I try to avoid the C word at all costs.  Yet, commitment can be a good thing for those with ...

Stabbing-To-Done

Jeremy Miner’s got a great method for feeling the satisfaction of completing a task. Instead of throwing the used notecards away, he stabs them. After I complete the tasks on a given card, I gleefully impale the card on the spindle. There’s a profoundly visceral satisfaction that comes with stabbing a completed task through the ...

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