Entries from March 2008 ↓

I have a confession to make. Although I have incorporated many of the Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management (aff) techniques into my productivity methods, I have not actually made it through the book yet.
I find that limiting what I am going to do on any given day, through the use of [...]

I keep reading that our economy is now based on thinking rather than material production. We have become an information producing society. In order to end up with our product, information and thoughts, we have to be able to have the environment to make that happen.
This article was inspired by a recent day of constant [...]

You’re about to embark on an afternoon of errands. All your items were neatly typed in to your Palm the night before, and you’re ready for a productive day. You pull up the the first store, turn on your PDA…and nothing happens. Somehow, the battery discharged itself.
This seems to happen to me every time I [...]

Summary
Progect, by Laurent Burgbacher, is a project management tool.
Overview
Manufacturer: Laurent BurgbacherPlatform: PalmCurrent Version: Palm: 0.25
Pros and Cons
Pros

Free
Stable
Easy to use

Cons

No desktop component

Why Did I Download/Buy This?
When I first started exploring GTD, I went looking for something outside the standard Palm applications to help me manage projects. Progect was excellent.
How Do I Use This?
Unfortunately, I do a [...]

There are times, particularly ones of stress, where I find myself mulling over things people have said and done. Never a great one for speaking on the fly, I think up retorts long after the conversation has finished. This past week was particularly bad, with a hard-headed individual bending the rules to his liking and [...]

Sometimes it is hard to get going. Like a battery left too long inactive in the cold, we can’t get started on what we need to do.
Everyone has their methods of getting started on a task.
Here are my five favorite:
#1: Use A Timer
For some reason, if I tell myself I only have to work on [...]

I recently read Weekly Review over at CreativeGTD, and I was struck by the comment that “My problem at the moment is that i just don’t really feel like getting things done. I have a list of things to do with contexts, but i look at them and don’t want to do them. It’s motivation [...]

PDF files. Portable Document Format. The pop up everywhere, and seem to have become a standard in computer documents.
What PDF Files Are
PDF files came into being in 1993 as the brainchild of Adobe. They provide a way to view documents and graphics without having the same software that was used to create the document.
How Do [...]