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Nice collection of productivity tips for students at Academhack.  Although the post is geared toward students heading to college for the first time, I think this tip has broader appeal:
“[Get a] brightly colored folder, one that is a different color than all of your others. Put your syllabi in here, only your syllabi, and always [...]

According to a story on LifeHacker, Jerry Seinfeld once offered a young comic some excellent advice on writing and motivation:
“[Seinfeld] told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.
He said [...]

My most important task today was arranging an interview with an imam I met in June at ISAM.  I had been meaning to contact him for a while, but I didn’t realize until today that emailing him wasn’t the next action.  Once I sorted out what needed to be done first, I added the tasks [...]

I’m flattered that Jim Gibbon.com was included on WhitePapers.org’s Personal Productivity Required Reading List: 100 Kick-butt Lifehacking Blogs.  The author has done a great job breaking the list into categories and provides helpful summaries for all the sites, quite a few of which were new to me.  (One blog that I’ll be subscribing to is [...]

Here are three practical suggestions that helped my wife and me keep costs and stress to a minimum during our recent trip to Barcelona, though you could apply these almost anywhere.
1. Check Craigslist for vacation rentals in the places you’re going to visit.  Using Craigslist, we rented a room with a private bathroom in [...]

If you haven’t registered your own name as a domain name, what are you waiting for?  Chances are someone else has the same name as you — check here for the U.S. — so do you really want Mr. or Ms. Same Name the neo-Nazi or adult film star claiming your domain?
I checked the availability [...]

Of all the hacks in Lifehacker’s 13 book hacks for the library crowd, I think BibMe is the most useful.  BibMe is a free online bibliography maker that generates complete bibliographic citations from very simple searches.  Your bibliography can then be saved or exported in MLA, Chicago, or APA style as a rich text file.
I [...]