Posted on January 30, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Some of you might have wondered at my last article, and my concern about the weather. It has proved to be very handy in the last 24 hours. You see, I live in an area of the United States that doesn’t get snow. Our major weather events are nor’easters and [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 29, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog. OK, this subject is a strange one, but knowing the weather — at least the big events — is crucial to my feeling of comfort. Perhaps it comes from growing up in a place where sudden storms leveled a town, where the tornado [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 28, 2010 by LJ Earnest
I’m now a few months into the Grand iPod Touch experiment, and I’m settling into my new system. I’ve discovered workable solutions (for me) to the fundamentals of a productivity system. Here is what I’m using to date: Calendar I’ve set up the Touch to sync with my Google Calendar. [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 27, 2010 by GuestPost
This is a guest post by Kim Metzler. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. After my husband and I were married a few years we built our modest home and within a few short years found ourselves parents of 4 children. We [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 26, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Tuesdays are open loop at SimpleProductivity blog. Green Changemakers ran a very concise article on the “14 Benefits Of Simplicity That Lead To A Good Life”. It’s a good read, with valid points. For those not willing to go on their own, there is yet another planning method over at [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 25, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Since the end of our school semester is this week, and my daughter has four “adjusted dismissal days” (read: half-days), I decided now would be a good time to share how I work from home while my daughter is there. Note: I normally [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 22, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog. I switched to Firefox almost as soon as it came out. While I work with Microsoft products for a living, I hated working with IE6. Firefox gave me so much more… tabbed browsing, and the ability to expand functionality with extensions! Oh my, [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 21, 2010 by LJ Earnest
I’ve always been skeptical of online money management tools. I couldn’t figure out what they would get me that I didn’t have already. And honestly, most online tools I had looked at before either only did accounts for a specific institution, or were a vehicle to sell me things. What [...]
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