Archives for July 2007
8apps.com [Setting Contexts]
Thanks to Pownce, I was introduced to 8apps.com today. It’s a social network for productivity geeks! I was so excited - still am (if anyone wants to pass alomng an invite…) - only to find that the development team behind it seems to have gone their separate ways in the last couple of weeks.
Would love [...]
blog.pmarca.com: Quote of the week: Why brainstorming is a bad idea [Setting Contexts]
I can see this point - but I am a firm believer in brainstorming (and mindmapping along the way!). Brainstorming generates more than ideas. It generates community, teamwork, it teaches being open to new ideas and paths of thinking. There are no wrong ideas in a brainstorming session.
But again - this is a different [...]
MindMeister announces upgrade with lots of new features [Ian's Messy Desk]
MindMeister has been live for about three months. This week they rolled out a major upgrade to the on-line mind mapping service. Among the new features:
Links on ideas
Support for internal (between maps, or also to individual nodes) and external (websites, email addresses) links on ideas
Automatic layouter
No more overlapping ideas and branches with the new auto [...]
Programm zum Faxen machen [ToolBlog]
Noch so etwas Kleines, aber Feines und vor allem Nützliches: Mit simple-fax.de können Sie pdf-Dateien als Fax in 14 EU-Länder versenden. Innerhalb Deutschland geht das natürlich auch. Das Ganze ist umsonst, Registrieren ist auch nicht nötig.
Original post here: Stephan List
Freie pdf-Werkzeuge [ToolBlog]
Ein Helferlein, ohne das ich mir computertechnisch mein Leben gar nicht mehr vorstellen kann, ist FreePDF XP. Mit diesem Programm können Sie jedes Dokument auf bequemste Art und Weise in eine pdf-Datei überführen. Nun habe ich etwas entdeckt, das FreePDF hervorragend ergänzt: PDFill PDF Tools. Wie der Name schon sagt, handelt es sich um eine [...]
7 steps to managing conflict [Ian's Messy Desk]
Posted in Communication Tuesday
Several years ago, when I first started my current job, I had a conflict with one of the employees. By the strict interpretation of our policies, I was right in my actions, but I managed it very poorly. Shortly after that, the other employee resigned. It was a lack of experience on [...]
Microsoft Word - with style [Genuine Curiosity]
I frequently find myself in situations where I need to combine Word documents from multiple people into a single document. This becomes very time consuming when the original authors “hard code” their formatting and fonts into their document (for example, manually applying Bold, Underline, and a larger font size to headings in the document).
When you [...]
Start of the Early Bird Challenge [How to be an Original]
Today is the last day of July, the goal-free month. Tomorrow is August, and the start of one of the biggest habit changes I have ever undertaken. Tomorrow is the first day of adopting the habit of waking up early, I named it the Early Bird Challenge.
In a previous article I wrote about the reasons [...]
Only2Clicks - The Only Startpage You’ll Ever Need [Gearfire Productivity]
When it comes to browser homepages, I have slowly drifted from MSN to Google, to Netvibes, to Schoolr, to Sputtr and then back to Google. My latest (and quite possibly greatest) startpage is Only2Clicks.
Only2Clicks is very unique, and I don’t really know what to compare it to. You can create bookmarks of your favorite sites, [...]
Building My DIY Planner [HD BizBlog 1.2]
This is my current Organizer, as it looks at the end of the two-month beta-test of the custom Calendar Pages -
My strategy behind this design is to create a system for managing the Hard Landscape with a tool that is just as conducive to planning (putting information into the calendar) as it is to implementing [...]