I’ve heard students (grad and undergrad) say the following more often than I expect: I just have this awkward 30 minute break between classes, which is not really enough time to get anything done.
I beg your pardon?
Here are five ideas for making use of between-class time:
Read. Always bring backup reading. People are late, classes start [...]
I didn’t like the old design and thought it was a bit hard to read so I changed it. Hope this is better!
…and by kind of, I mean a lot. I’m a declared fan of GTD simplicity, so I normally don’t try and overpolish the GTD system, but I ran into this Lifehacker post about capture, which mentioned Jott as a possible capture tool. A while back I bought a tiny pen that I keep in my [...]
So I saw the Launchy Todoist plugin, that lets you quickly add an item to your Todoist lists with just a few keystrokes, and it made me jealous because I don’t use Launchy, I use SlickRun. I wanted the same Todoist capture method for SlickRun. Capturing distracting thoughts while you’re doing a task quickly and [...]
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