Entries Tagged as 'productivity'

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 [...]

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Dealing with an imperfect GTD system

A perfect GTD system only exists on paper. Of course everyone’s system is imperfect. We should be able to deal with that. I like to measure imperfection as how much stuff is still on your mind. That’s what drew me in and keeps me going strong with GTD: keeping my mind clear. In the end, [...]

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

5 Ways to make use of between-class time

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 [...]

Friday, September 21st, 2007

I’m starting to Jott and I kind of like it.

…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 [...]

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Todoist Slickrun Integration

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 [...]

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Todoist Review

Edit(2/5/08): Check out my latest post on using a notecard for the day along with Todoist!
So I renogiated my commitment to this thereaputic blog and called it quits after a short while to get other things done. This happend around April, but then you’ll notice I posted once more in May to write a quick [...]

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Dan Kennedy - No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs - Review

First things first, by the end of this post you should know why I haven’t posted in so long.Second things second, yes, I know no one cares when I post and no one reads this blog anyways.
The following is my (very brief) review of the book No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs by Dan Kennedy: [...]

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

GTD "Today folder or list"

I found an interesting un-GTD GTD recommendation on an IT management website (via the great ultimate gtd index). The article is titled “Getting Things Done in 60 seconds” and the author teaches a few (60 seconds worth) of GTD fundamentals and if you like them you have to promise to buy the book and delve [...]

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Are all open loops really created equal?

I’m going to put my question-GTD hat on again.
One premise of GTD is that as far as your mind goes, all open loops are created equal. That is, no matter the time, place, or importance, your mind will focus on an open loop as though it is important, and this is the time and [...]

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Priorities and Getting Things Done

The overemphasis in the GTD world of priorities being last place in the four-fold criteria for doing is, in my opinion, not going to help you get important things done. Merlin over on 43folders wrote a bit about why priorities are last place, and as sacrilegious as this may sound in the GTD world, I [...]