Archives for the 'Organizer' Category

Moleskine and Me: A Quest for a Mind Like Water [Productivity in Context]

Today we are pleased to have a guest-post from Phil Stanoch, the editor of A Better Life, Every Day. Through personal development and personal productivity articles, A Better Life, Every Day aims to help people make each new day better than the day before.
Over the years, I’ve tried many different techniques/philosophies for getting organized and [...]

20 June 2008 | GTD, Links, Organizer, Productivity | No Comments

The SOBCon Notebook Hack [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

I spent a couple of days last week looking all over Maine for a bookstore that carried the Moleskine Citybook for Chicago. I wanted it so that I could have a separate place to capture all of my notes and contact info for the trip coming up in two weeks.
Try as I might, I could [...]

20 April 2008 | Gear, Organizer, Planning | No Comments

Wonderful, Paper-ful Productivity [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

My friend Skellie has a post this week about “Origami Productivity” that you should see:

I love paper in all its forms and always have. In fact, if given the choice between a notebook and a web app to fulfill the same function, I’ll choose a notebook every time. I tried Google Calendar and didn’t like [...]

6 February 2008 | GTD, Organizer | No Comments

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go to Levenger [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

My wife and I visited Boston this past weekend, she was working a Bridal Show at the Bayside Expo Center on Saturday and Sunday. Since I am not in that biz any longer, I took a ride on the subway Saturday afternoon to pay a visit to one of my favorite places: Levenger.
I just love [...]

28 January 2008 | Community, GTD, Gear, Levenger, Organizer | No Comments

Everybody Loves a Three-way [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

Via Moleskinerie, a video featuring a Moleskine notebook, a Pilot G2 pen, and a cool new messenger bag.
What did you think I was talking about?
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23 January 2008 | Follow Your Dream, Links, Organizer | No Comments

Paper Planner Deathmatch [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

Lodewijk at How to Be an Original has the authoritative review of pen-and-paper planner systems.
Check it out:

Requirements for a paper based planner
Before starting to look at the different options, I made a small list of requirements for my new planner.

Must fit in my pocket anytime
So it must have a small size (about A6-size) [...]

11 January 2008 | Book Reviews, GTD, Links, Organizer | No Comments

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 [...]

31 July 2007 | Calendar Pages, Design, GTD, Global Microbrand, Organizer, Print Your Own Calendar, System | No Comments

Do You Need an Organizer [HD BizBlog 1.2]

“Once you know how to process your stuff and what to organize,
you really just need to create and manage lists”
~David Allen, Getting Things Done

Call it an organizer, a day planner, a calendar, a diary, or just a capture notebook; the paper organizer has lasted through two or three generations of productivity systems. In the [...]

25 July 2007 | GTD, Gear, Global Microbrand, Organizer, Print Your Own Calendar | No Comments