Productivity Power Links 12-10-09

Ok this is somewhat cool…

You don’t have time to tether yourself to a wall while your cellphone, PSP, DS, or other gadget charges. Next time your portable gear starts running low on juice, strap on gadget manufacturer Brando’s clever wristband battery recharger and keep on keepin’ on.

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Getting to much done?

Too much GTD or too much effectiveness in your life can become annoying at some point. Being highly productive can really help you become some sort of a freak, even if you obviously don’t want that. All those lists, thoughts capturing devices, advanced task processing systems. All those fancy words like “next actions”, “hipster cards” or “mind like water”. All those tasks carefully squeezed into your agenda, well, all that could give you a very hard time in a normal, non-productivity related, social conversation.

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Trying hard not to player hate this guy…

This past summer, for example, I completed my PhD in computer science at MIT. Simultaneous with writing my dissertation I finished the manuscript for my third book, which was handed in a month after my PhD defense and will be published by Random House in the summer of 2010. During this past year, I also managed to maintain my blog, Study Hacks, which enjoys over 50,000 unique visitors a month, and publish over a half-dozen peer-reviewed academic papers.

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What to eat if you want to be unhealthy…

Cattle evolved to eat grass, not grains. But farmers today feed their animals corn and soybeans, which fatten up the animals faster for slaughter. More money for cattle farmers (and lower prices at the grocery store) means a lot less nutrition for us. A recent comprehensive study conducted by the USDA and researchers from Clemson University found that compared with corn-fed beef, grass-fed beef is higher in beta-carotene, vitamin E, omega-3s, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), calcium, magnesium, and potassium; lower in inflammatory omega-6s; and lower in saturated fats that have been linked to heart disease. “We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure,” says Salatin.

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Woo Hoo Quicksilver has been updated…

Quicksilver’s been updated!

Quicksilver is one of those applications that simply genius and once you’ve used it you can’t understand how you survived all these years without it.

Get it here.

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Visual alerts don’t work…really?

Growl notifications, alert add-ons for Firefox and for the desktop, and other tools can all help you keep on top of goings-on in your digital world by displaying visual cues whenever new activity appears on your social networks, email, or other web apps. A new study, however, indicates that these tools might not be helping you at all. In fact, they could be seriously hamstringing your productivity.

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Howdy!

Been busy actually doing stuff…will be back soon with more of the same.

Shalom

At Least Looking Productive…

 

Erin Rooney Doland of Unclutterer fame shares on how to increase the perception that your productive…

Productivity Mega Power Links 11-24-08

Back from my cyber-vacation, tanned rested and ready…so let the productivity begin!

See…all the great one’s take time off, every once and a while.

Putting ducks in rows. Reading. Setting up my first office. Helping family and friends. Signing lots of forms. Writing large checks. Learning how adults run an actual business. Reading some more. Staring and thinking. Watching my daughter learn to walk while talking to a saltine. And, one of my favorite new skills: learning to evaluate (then mostly ignore) any impulse that presses me to publish something here before my brain’s done thinking about it. In my opinion, that’s a luxury I must figure out how to afford for the rest of my life.

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Getting thang’s done with OneNote?

Within OneNote you set up tags for things like Processing, Contexts (@home, @calls, etc.), and for Projects. I additionally set up a tag for Someday/Maybe which was absent from Rob’s implementation. The tags are the most critical part of the implementation and the part that has done the most to radically improve my workflow. OneNote has checkbox style tags that allow you to tag and then check off items, very handy.

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Unclutterer is now on Twitter…so let the time sucking begin!

Unclutterer is expanding to include additional daily tips on home and office organizing over Twitter through the user account UncluttererTips.

We come across so many wonderful ideas and solutions, but not all of them have enough meat for a full Unclutterer post. Instead of letting these great ideas go unshared, we have decided to let you know about them in 140 characters or less.

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GTD…remember that? Kelly please let’s take a stroll down memory lane.

As with all of the five phases of GTD: Mastering Workflow (Collect>Process>Organize>Review>Do), Collect has best practices and worst practices:

Best practices: out of your head, into leak-proof locations, clean edges between collect and organize
Worst practices: in your head, spread all around, blended with reference and what’s already been decided (collect is not organize!)

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Google releases some new stuff for the Crackberry…

Almost a year ago, Google introduced Google Sync. This allowed for a wireless reconciliation of your BlackBerry and Google calendars. Like many other Google/Berry users, I’ve found this to be an essential BlackBerry application. This, combined with the awesome IMAP capabilities on Gmail, means that I can sync most of my Google suite with my Berry. Except, of course, for contacts. We knew this day was coming, and it’s finally here. You can now sync your Google contacts with your BlackBerry.

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Productivity magazine…

I’m deviating from my usual posting schedule this week to mention the first release of the Productive Magazine. Not only is it free to download, I’m also in it! My post on how to deal with having one of those days has been included, as well as 16 other posts from top productivity bloggers. When I was originally asked to submit something I wasn’t sure what the end result would be but having seen the finished product I’m very pleased and proud to have been a part of it.

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I actually tried to use Things…once.

Things is a GTD system designed for Mac computers with mobile applications for the iPhone and iTouch. To any user of David Allen’s productivity system, Things should look very familiar. Hot keys (or mouse clicking) will bring up a task window for easy entry. To each task, you can add notes, due dates, links to files, and customizable tags, which serve as “contexts.”

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On Vacation

photo by bensonkua

Taking a vacation from the interweb and all of its frivolity to focus on that which is necessary…see ya in a couple of weeks.

Productivity Power Links 10-22-08

• Nice and loong post on working from home…I work out of my basement. My kids all understand that “Daddy is busy working” and they only interrupt me for emergencies. Other adults and visiting family members are a different story. They come into my office and start talking to me when I’m clearly wearing my headset—no matter how many fingers I hold up (or which ones). (via list apart)
• Need some help cleaning up your nasty filthy house…Last week in our quest for de-junking the spaces around us, we walked through cleaning a workstation and keeping it that way. This week, we’re taking on a more personal, and often intimidating, space: The home. Personal because it is, after all, your home, and intimidating because it’s the place you don’t have to keep clean—until somebody’s coming to visit. (via lifehacker)
• Have you noticed how hard it is sometimes to get anything done at work? I work from home and am amazed every time I go into the office how much time we waste…Below is a great interview from O’Reilly TV on productivity and stopping interruptions.

 

• Yet another desktop GTD application…GTD-Free is a multiplatform, free task management program that is based on the “Getting Things Done” (GTD) methodology. It aims to be lightweight and simple while offering a wide range of features such as editable lists, projects, priorities, etc. (via freeware genius)
• iPhone and productivity? interesting…I record all my receipts and photo notes straight to Evernote. I have every invoice and purchase order in PDF from my business as well as all the other files that I want to share between multiple locations stored in EverNote. The Web application, Mac Application, and iPhone application make this a killer note taking and storing app for me. (via did i get things done)

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All Liberals Are Slobs?

So that explains this…

Researchers looking to peg political affiliation to personality, DNA, and brain structure will soon release a study stating that liberals tend to keep messy bedrooms and workspaces, while conservatives keep it neat and tidy. Does this mean those who cycle through messy build-up and major clean-ups are the true undecideds?

(via lifehacker)