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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fellow productivity blogger Merlin Mann (of 43folders fame) has just joined the Stikkit advisory board. This is a monster win/win situation for everyone involved. Stikkit is an amazing organization app, and have thoroghly enjoyed playing around with it. I’ve decided to use it as my de-facto contact manager for Blogfuse once it’s ready for release. ...
Mark over at Productive Strategies has a pretty amusing posts that list nine ways to kill productivity. My favorite: Use email for things that should be done in person. Things that require a quick back and forth conversation or where you know you aren’t providing everything they need for an answer are bound to lower ...
