Archives for April 2007
Top Five Posts for April 2007 [Ian's Messy Desk]
Benjamin Franklin - 13 Virtues – an overview of the values that Benjamin Franklin used to keep his life focussed.
10 Tips to Help Keep Your Desk Clean – this short how-to continues to be popular.
Free Canadian Personal Income Tax Software – with the April 30th filing deadline looming, income tax software was in demand.
Free Global Television [...]
Unclutterer: A blog to help you get rid of clutter [Ian's Messy Desk]
Are the wire hangers in your closet multiplying like rabbits? Are there more clothes on your bed than hanging in your closet? Does your dog have more stuff than its owner? Then you need to check out this new blog, Unclutterer.
Unclutterer is the website for home and office organization. It’s not just for the helplessly [...]
The Hunt for the Project List - Part 3 [GTD Wannabe]
Some time ago, I discovered that I didn’t really have a projects list. So, I decided to do something about it. I did some searching to see what other people did with their projects lists, and then came up with my own solution. Basically, I kept a “list” in MindManager, divided by [...]
EN Templates: Phone Message with Checkbox [GTD Wannabe]
There’s a bit of a demand over at the EverNote forum for a slight adjusted phone template. Now that I’ve introduced you to the EverNote Template engine, and got you started on changing labels, I’d like to address the following requests re the phone template:
When the phone message is added to the tape, it should [...]
David allen Podcast: Managing Project Actions [Ian's Messy Desk]
Kelly Forrister wrote:
We just posted a podcast I did with David Allen on managing project actions ala GTD. I wanted to do this podcast with David because it’s one of the most common questions I get in seminars. If the outcome gets tracked on the Projects list and Action steps get listed on the [...]
Problems or actions, it’s still a list [What's the next action]
Webworker Daily published an interesting article. A programmer decided he would not list his next actions but his problems. While reading the article I was thinking the same thing some commenters also state: "Well, isn't it just another list you have to work on?" Whether you call them problems, projects or "stuff", you still put [...]
GettingThingsDone im Netzwerk [ToolBlog]
Gerne habe ich die Einladung zur Mitgliedschaft im GettingThingsDone- Network angenommen. Das ToolBlog ist bislang das einzige deutschsprachige Blog im Netzwerk. Dankeschön!
Explore Getting Things Done (a FeedBurner Network)
Original post here: Stephan List
New: Attach Files to your Nozbe Projects - keep gtd stuff together! [Getting Things Done Blog - Nozbe]
Nozbe is helping you get things done, by arranging your stuff into projects.
Nozbe is so flexible that many of our users approach projects differently, some treat them as buckets (like Inbox project) which is gathering information for further processing later… some believe projects are just containers of relevant information (to-dos, notes..etc.) … and David Allen’s [...]
Quotes - April 30 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” —Lewis Carroll
“When you have a dream you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” —Albert Einstein
“You can get everything in life you want [...]
11 tips for keeping your inbox clean. [Flipping Heck! Productivity, Technology and Motivation blog]
We’ve all been there, all of a sudden your once empty inbox is now filling up like nobody’s business and the stuff just keeps piling on top of you.
I’ve spoken previously about my GTD email setup and how I organise my sent emails but sometimes it’s all too easy to fall off the bandwagon. Although [...]