Category Archives: Productivity/GTD

My Goal Today…

Follow David Allen’s Productivity Principle no. 81:
A single focus is infinitely more productive than a split one.
Now to go check email, blogs, write a few letters, and…

Jott

The other day Seth Godin blogged about Jott, a free service that lets you dial a toll-free number, leave a message, and then it emails it to you or anyone else you choose. It types out the text and also provides a link to the audio file.
I’ve been using it for the last few days [...]

the iphone…nice


Healthy Procrastinating

Here is my working-list of ‘reasonably healthy activities to procrastinate with’:

organize my desk
read a section of a book I love
read a prayer from Valley of Vision
clean my closet
organize tools in the garage
handwrite a letter to a friend
review Moleskine notes/todo’s
read local newspaper/magazine
put in a song I love and sit back and listen to the [...]

“Productive Talk” Podcast: 43 Folders meets David Allen

43 Folders and the David Allen Company are starting a joint podcast called Productive Talk, featuring audio of conversations between Merlin Mann and David Allen. Check out a sample here.
The focus will be on David Allen’s book Getting Things Done and implementation and best practices, as well as how to troubleshoot problems in your [...]

Quicksilver: My Swiss Army Knife for the Mac

I’ve been meaning to post on this for awhile now. If there is one program on my laptop that I cannot live without it is the free application Quicksilver. There are a bunch of great articles on the program, the best being Merlin Mann’s 43folders blog. He calls Quicksilver “The single best productivity app for [...]