Entries Tagged 'Productivity' ↓

Scrivener got a glowing tribute in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday.  This is the application I’ve been using for several months to write all my field notes, store ideas, and draft papers.  It’s not a full replacement for MS Word or other word processors — mostly because it can’t handle footnotes like those [...]

There’s a quick way to check whether a document being edited in Mac OS X contains any unsaved changes.  Just look at the red button in the upper left corner of the window.  If it has a dark dot in the center, the document has changed since being saved.  If not, you’re all set.
I’m usually [...]

Happy new year!  I hope everyone’s 2008 is off to a great start.
I went to bed early last night at the lame hour of 10:45 PM, but was woken up by fireworks at midnight.  All I had to do to watch them was lean forward in bed and look out the window, which was pretty [...]

I have two small geeky gifts to share with you this Christmas.
1.  Via Lifehacker:
David Allen has a zipped archive of 17 articles available to download for free at the David Allen Company online store. Whether you’re a die-hard GTDer or just use certain portions of the methodology, the articles are a great supplement to the [...]

Loads of useful time management tips to be found in the free ebook Time Management for Creative People.  Blogger and poet Mark McGuinness has cobbled together advice from some of the biggest productivity gurus — David Allen, Stephen Covey, Mark Forster — into a 32-page ebook that makes a good primer for those seeking time [...]

Long-time readers of my blog will recall that I’ve written several times about perfectionism getting in the way of productivity, as in this parable about perfectionism and an early post about the fear of imperfection.
In today’s New York Times there’s a short article suggesting that perfectionism can also lead to mental health problems like depression [...]

OmniFocus is an application I told myself I would not be buying.  After switching from one task manager to another trying to find the perfect app for my GTD system, I realized I had wasted enough time and decided to stick with what was already working just fine, Ethan Schoonover’s kGTD.
I saw the early screenshots [...]