Archive for the Efficiency Category

How I Apply Productivity Methods To Gardening

Posted on March 30, 2009 by LJ

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Organizing the Kitchen: Food

Posted on March 27, 2009 by LJ

Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog.

In the past few weeks several people have asked me for organizational advice. My super-organized mother instilled it in my upbringing, making it almost second nature to me. But one of my friends complained that she hadn’t been trained as I had, and needed [...]

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Distraction Free Writing

Posted on February 23, 2009 by LJ

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

I ran across an article over at Stepcase Lifehack: “Your Guide to Apps that Eliminate Distractions“. Always distractable, I look out for things like this. — particularly the first two, which lend themselves to distraction-free writing.
Major Writing Distractions
To me, the two biggest writing distractions [...]

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Save Time By Minimizing Mouse Clicks

Posted on February 11, 2009 by LJ

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Most of us spend a lot of time at our computers. Switching back and forth between keyboard and mouse causes us to lose time. While you may not think it significant, think about your typing speed and think about how many keystrokes you could [...]

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How To Save Money, Time and Calories: “Backup” Pantry Food

Posted on February 11, 2009 by LJ

I am big into the idea of menu planning. Besides allowing me to limit my shopping time, it takes off the afternoon pressure of trying to figure out what we will have for dinner.
However, there are days when the planned menu just doesn’t work. It could be because we have [...]

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Mark Forster’s New System Is Now Public

Posted on February 10, 2009 by LJ

I received an email this morning from Mark Forster announcing that the Autofocus system instructions are now available to the public without registration.
The instructions can be found here: Autofocus
I did have to implement my own electronic version of the system (see How I Use My PDA With Autofocus) because I [...]

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