Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

Google has just bought the telephone service GrandCentral Communications according to the Silicon Valley San Jose Business Journal. This sounds like a brilliant idea. It’s like Google’s integrating instant messaging directly into their web mail application so you can IM the people you email who are on the service. But do we really want Google having all [...]

I’ve been putting up some posts on personal productivity. A certain amount of concern in this area is good unless you end up killing yourself. You’ve got to wonder if corporations pay the GTD gurus so they won’t have to crack the whip themselves. When you’re self-employed, the constant focus on productivity could drive you [...]

Republic of Geektronica via Mark the writer I have recently reconsidered my steadfast commitment to web-based task management tools and tried using Microsoft Outlook’s much-ignored Tasks feature. I decided to try Outlook for task management for two reasons: First, I was giving a presentation to users of Outlook and wanted to have some tips that [...]

Dane posted this… If you’re tempted to get an iPhone, it’s well worth reading! I’ve long been on a record as a strong advocate of smart phones, and the Treo 650 in particular. I’ve had a Treo 650 since mid 2005. This weekend, after an hour’s drive and a short wait at an Apple Store, [...]

You can increase your personal productivity by getting past voice mail systems and getting to a human being as quickly as possible. GetHuman.com tells you the quickest way to whittle away at the “voice mail tree” and get to a real life human being for up to 500 companies from “AAA” to “Wisconsin Electric”!

Every self employed or work at home type of person is a “freelancer” of sorts. Here’s how one freelancer gets things done using a Molekskine notebook system. I’ve recently started using the Moleskine notebooks because they’re cool (I use the large, squared page one for summarizing important meetings or projects but less than I’d thought) [...]

Microsoft unveiled one of their “secret” new projects today: “Surface” No mouse or keyboard is required… simply human touch. The immediate problems I see are 1) People will think it’s  a hard surface scratch it all up and otherwise destroy it in short order. 2) The thing I like about my keyboard is that I don’t [...]

Moleskine notebooks are all the rage with the Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity or “GTD” crowd. Hey, I even bought one myself yesterday to see what all the fuss was about. If you’ve got an old one you know that they content of your notebook may no longer be relevant but the [...]

Some people want to be writers, but putting together a single article seems to take them a week. Unless someone is willing to pay you $1000 per article that’s not so good. (If you have found somone willing to pay you that, please email me!) But for generating online money, writing articles is key. The [...]

David Allen’s book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity is so popular it’s spawning “GTD” groups over the net. After buying the book, you still may wonder… how does this really work. GTD search at Flickr to the rescue! Search through the GTD users on Flickr and you’ll find some really great examples [...]