http://productivity.protocol80.net Productivity and organizational ideas and implimentations. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:28:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm on a new upsurge of blogging right now, doing lots of posts, and more comments in other places. It's easy to see I've had surges of posting in the past, but they fizzle out, so I am making a marked effort this time to keep the flow of output. There ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/gtd/2006/12/16/blogging-again-and-four-ways-im-going-to-keep-going/ InspireMe.org's Two Tips To Make Your Productivity Soar deals with one critical time consumer, staring at a screen wondering what to work on next. They recommend that if you find yourself with an empty to-do list (You do use a to-do list right?) you get up right away, and go ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/gtd/2006/08/01/not-working-on-something-important-do-something-fun/ A quick and easy trick for speeding up your browsing to regularly viewed sites in Firefox which I find myself using more and more. Once you have a page bookmarked, right click it and select "Properties" and you will see a "keyword" text box, with this you can simply enter the ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/uncategorized/2006/07/28/use-keywords-to-quickly-jump-to-firefox-bookmarks/ I just had a quick play with "GTD with Vim" a seemingly nifty little plug-in that adds some Getting Things Done type functionality into your Vim client. Now, it's a neat little plug in that offers some swift keyboard short cuts (and a menu) for adding actions as a line and ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/gtd/2006/07/27/a-look-at-gtd-with-vim/ There are no shortage of ways you can constantly tweak your personal time management, and if you're trying for that 2% more productivity per week, every little can count. So these three things put forward by Work Place Life aren't anything amazing on their own, but they can still have an ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/productivity/2006/07/21/three-ways-to-save-time-at-work-plus-three-more/ Today's "Geek To Live" over at LifeHacker.com lists 10 Top Free and Cheap Productivity Tools. It's an interesting read, but I don't agree 100% with the list, I do however agree with the principle - "Free and Cheap" is a good thing, in fact it sums up most of my ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/gtd/2006/07/20/my-top-5-free-and-cheap-productivity-tools/ You've probably heard the quote by Albert Einstein that "The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest." and you can't ignore the figures over the long term when it comes to saving your money. But compound increases apply to anything. Including productivity. I never really though about this before, ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/gtd/2006/07/19/compound-improvment-the-2-challenge/ I started reading PigPog about a week ago now, and I've been nicely impressed with their steady stream of articles that pick at my more creative brain regions. The latest article Improve your Writing collects a large number of resources for boosting the quantatiy and quality of your writing output. I ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/writing/2006/07/17/collected-writing-articles/ I've taken a bit of a break on my reading the past week or so, a few things have cropped up in the RealWorld(tm) which have meant I've had reading and blogging time pretty limited, but things are now back on track. So my reading of "7 Habits" has taken a ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/site-news/2006/07/14/current-reading-and-musings/ Over on his blog, Steve Pavlina fields a question/answer post regarding "Is Covering Psychic Development Unprofessional". And it's good to see him air his views on such things so openly. To be fair, I generally skim over those posts, not so much because they don't interest me, but because I'm not ... http://productivity.protocol80.net/personaldevelopment/2006/07/10/thoughts-on-steve-pavlina-and-psyhic-posts/