Entries Tagged as 'productivity'

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Have Confidence

Photo by: chris.merwe
I’ve noticed a pattern. A large amount of productivity literature, blogs, and “hacks”, in the end tell a single story: Have the confidence to jump right in to your work. Often, they notice that there are certain barriers (self-created, or not) that are blocking your confidence or clouding your judgment so [...]

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Notecard for the Week: Oh yes, it gets better.

Photo by: MShades

I have become obsessed with my notecard for the day: a single 3×5 sheet that carries with it what i need to do today (a very small and realistic number), often a calendar of events (so I know when the free time is that I can do my tasks for the day), and [...]

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Simply GTD: Do You Really Need Contexts?

Photo by: Nathan Borror
Guess what my answer is to the title question. Guess, I dare you.
You got it:
@No.
Is it a sin in the GTD community to speak ill of contexts? Maybe. Will I ask for forgiveness? No. Below are my reasons.
First, a caveat: if you are a businesswoman or man that on any given day [...]

Monday, February 18th, 2008

5 Ways to Avoid the Powerpoint Timesuck

Photo by: ToastyKen
Note: In light of the popularity and timing of Merlin Mann’s recently posted MacWorld video, I should note that these tips were written with a technical presentation in mind, where data, figures, text and in general significant information on each slide is often necessary. In that vain, I’m also not sure how presentations [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Todoist with a Notecard for the Day

Photo by: pshutterbugAs I mentioned in a long review, I’ve been using Todoist since August. I’ll have you know that Todoist and I are still doing quite well. So well in fact that I recently started forking over $3/month for the premium membership. I’ll share my thoughts on that another day.
Today, however, I want to [...]

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Getting Up Early: Week 1

Photo by: scui3asteveo
So here are the results of my early rising experiments for Week 1. I want to emphasize that it’s my first week, so I’m still learning! My goal is to get into work by 8:00am, including days when I go to the gym in the morning (supposed to be 2 out of the [...]

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Getting Up Early: My experiment

Photo by: prakhar

I’m going to start a series of weekly posts that track my experiences with trying to wake up earlier on weekdays. A combination of realizing that I am more alert and energetic in the morning and this post on zenhabits made me want to try. I’ve been doing this for a couple of [...]

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Simply GTD: Cell Phone Capture

SMS to email my friends, SMS to email. Months back, I posted about trying Jott. It’s nice. It transcribes ridiculously well and it’s pretty convenient to be able to push a speed dial button and say “do this tomorrow because it’s so important” and have that show up in your inbox. But then I got [...]

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Does your system work when you have the flu?

GTD Simplicity is so vital to the whole process working.
I was listening to a podcast on davidco and David said two things that struck me about GTD systems:
(1) “these systems needs to work when you have the flu and don’t feel like it.”
Ain’t that the truth. I’ve finally stuck with a single list manager [...]

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Make a Weekly Review List : Gmail it to yourself

When I first started implementing GTD and recently as an experiment, I tried to do the weekly review impromptu, off the cuff if you will. This is generally not a good idea. You should make a weekly review list because it’s so goshdarn easy to make. I find the best place to put it is [...]