Category Archives: productivity

Does your system work when you have the flu?

GTD Simplicity is so vital to the whole process working. I was listening to a podcast on davidco and David said two things that struck me about GTD systems: (1) “these systems needs to work when you have the flu … Continue reading

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Make a Weekly Review List : Gmail it to yourself

When I first started implementing GTD and recently as an experiment, I tried to do the weekly review impromptu, off the cuff if you will. This is generally not a good idea. You should make a weekly review list because … Continue reading

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Dealing with an imperfect GTD system

A perfect GTD system only exists on paper. Of course everyone’s system is imperfect. We should be able to deal with that. I like to measure imperfection as how much stuff is still on your mind. That’s what drew me … Continue reading

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5 Ways to make use of between-class time

I’ve heard students (grad and undergrad) say the following more often than I expect: I just have this awkward 30 minute break between classes, which is not really enough time to get anything done. I beg your pardon? Here are … Continue reading

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I'm starting to Jott and I kind of like it.

…and by kind of, I mean a lot. I’m a declared fan of GTD simplicity, so I normally don’t try and overpolish the GTD system, but I ran into this Lifehacker post about capture, which mentioned Jott as a possible … Continue reading

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Todoist Slickrun Integration

So I saw the Launchy Todoist plugin, that lets you quickly add an item to your Todoist lists with just a few keystrokes, and it made me jealous because I don’t use Launchy, I use SlickRun. I wanted the same … Continue reading

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Todoist Review

Edit(2/5/08): Check out my latest post on using a notecard for the day along with Todoist! So I renogiated my commitment to this thereaputic blog and called it quits after a short while to get other things done. This happend … Continue reading

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Dan Kennedy – No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs – Review

First things first, by the end of this post you should know why I haven’t posted in so long.Second things second, yes, I know no one cares when I post and no one reads this blog anyways. The following is … Continue reading

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GTD "Today folder or list"

I found an interesting un-GTD GTD recommendation on an IT management website (via the great ultimate gtd index). The article is titled “Getting Things Done in 60 seconds” and the author teaches a few (60 seconds worth) of GTD fundamentals … Continue reading

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Are all open loops really created equal?

I’m going to put my question-GTD hat on again. One premise of GTD is that as far as your mind goes, all open loops are created equal. That is, no matter the time, place, or importance, your mind will focus … Continue reading

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