Been busy actually doing stuff…will be back soon with more of the same.
Shalom
Preach sista preach!
A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Website: “Most websites and blogs are filled with noise. Extraneous images, widgets, flashing advertisements and waffling text can be seen everywhere. In comparison, websites which focus on clarity and essential features can seem like zen gardens. They provide a refreshing break from the rest of the web and your readers will appreciate this sense of calm.
More importantly, stripping down your website will give more focus and strength to the things you want visitors to interact with most of all: its content, and other vital features.”
Shawns cool review of the Mac desktop publisher Marsedit…
Shawn Blanc » MarsEdit: Helping the Personal Publishing Revolution: “The fact that MarsEdit is still around – let alone in continued development as a fantastic application – is nearly a miracle. It has certainly seen quite a bit of action over the years.
Brent Simmons is the author of MarsEdit. It was originally a feature of the 1.x version NetNewsWire; you could read all your favorite weblogs and publish your own, all from the same application. But the feature (Notepad) eventually split off into its own app.”
Want to find out if your neighbors are crazy before you move in…
Check Google Maps mashup RottenNeighbors before you move to a new neighborhood to get a heads-up on the potentially noisy folks next door. Just go to the site and search by your zip code.
Using a cell phone will make you smarter?
Although no studies have shown a correlation between cell phone use and brain damage, the International Journal of Neuroscience published a study that found a slower EEG brain wave pattern during cell phone use. This difference in brain activity was subtle – within the normal range – but may reflect a different state of awareness. In fact, they also discovered that frequent cell phone users performed better in selective attention tasks. It’s possible that talking on the phone in the midst of the bustling world’s distractions requires a level of concentration that effectively works as cognitive training of attention.
We don’t do projects…we take bold action!
There’s a best practice in GTD will drive your entire system: You don’t do projects, you do next actions.
Ever wonder why some things sit on your lists and you never seem to get them done? You know the ones that you snarl at every time you can your list? If you’re like most people, you probably think it’s not getting done because you’re procrastinating. You may not be procrastinating on it at all. There’s a good chance that what you’ve got listed is not your next action, or it’s actually the name of a project, so some part of you keeps skipping over it because what you’re seeing is not actually what you need to DO.
Can TwitterNotes make it less of a time suck?
TwitterNotes is the perfect mashup for Twitter, if you ask me. For a while now, I’ve had a note scrawled on an index card that says “figure out how to use Twitter as a “notes to self” solution”. While hosted solutions aren’t my favorite, this one is really simple and works pretty well. I will most certainly be using this handy little service.
via twitter hacks
Free books anyone?
With over 18,000 books available for free, a WAP-enabled mobile site, and suggestions on how to read and save ebooks on your iPhone, ManyBooks.net offers something for nearly everyone. The site features a minimalist interface and simple navigation, as well as user reviews and over a dozen file formats for download. If you spend any time on the Project Gutenberg website, you’ll surely want to bookmark Manybooks.net.
via ehub
Tags: gtd, twitter, lifehacks, google maps
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Mr. Allen is blogging again sorta…
What I do is based on a radically common sense notion that with a complete and current inventory of all your commitments, organized and reviewed in a systematic way, you can focus clearly, view your world from optimal angles and make trusted choices about what to do (and not do) at any moment. Here are some of the things I can help you with:
• Capturing anything and everything that has your attention
• Defining actionable things discretely into outcomes and concrete next steps
• Organizing reminders and information in the most streamlined way, in appropriate categories, based on how and when you need to access them
• Keeping current and "on your game" with appropriately frequent reviews of the six horizons of your commitments (purpose, vision, goals, areas of focus, projects, and actions)via huffington post
Tags: gtd, david allen
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A really strong GTD blogger has finally made the move from Blogger to the wholesome yummy goodness that is WordPress. So click the link and check out the gtdwannabe and his new home.
CORRECTION!
I think you will find he is actually is a she 
thx gtdfrk
New blogger, great content, check her out…
This week, my family is getting a hands-on lesson in GTD. While my husband and teenage sons may not be aware of it, they have have actual been involved in the vertical “natural planning method” described in David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
. The project at hand: organizing our family’s humongous stack of books into a usable library where one can actually locate the desired book because it is where it’s supposed to be instead of under some stack.
Howdy my name is Don Mancha and I live in the bay area and work as a information technologist from the lonely solitude of my lovely home office.
