I just installed Read it Later right now…so I will let you know if it sucks.

This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. A commenter below (Chris) summed it up very well: “It’s a ’staging area’ for bookmarks.”

(via the ideal shower)

There is a growing mountain of evidence that would seem to suggest that multitasking is truly EVIL…

In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.” To Chesterfield, singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure one’s time; it was a mark of intelligence. “This steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.” (via the new atlantis)

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• Wanna be more productive? stop checking you email all the time!

Even if you just glance at a popup, read the title of a feed or spend a few seconds replying to a Tweet, you are loosing focus and loosing productivity. You don’t just loose the 20 seconds spent away from your task, but also the first few seconds or minutes when you resume working will not be at peak efficiency, therefore you loose some more there too. (via hack your day)

• Don’t know what this has to do with productivity but it sure is fun…

Windows/Mac OS X only: Freeware application Lego Digital Designer is a virtual Lego kit for your Windows or Mac desktop. Once installed, you can either use LDD to build your own masterpiece from scratch or—if you’re lacking patience—you can get a head start by using one of their starter models. With over 763 brick types to choose from, your LDD-design will have reached well beyond the limits of your normal lego kit. Once you’ve built the perfect prototype, you can upload the results to the Lego web site to order a custom kit with every brick you’ll need included! Lego Digital Designer is freeware, Windows and Mac only. (via lifehacker)

• Enter the “mind like water” state via a Moleskine?

My Moleskine comes just about everywhere with me, whether at work or outside of work. While I use my Treo to house my Calendar and Task lists, my Moleskine is a repository for everything. (via productivity in context)

• A vacation from the Internet?

If you really think that you are obsessed with the internet to the point that it is disrupting your normal life and having an adverse effect on your health, then just take a vacation and don’t carry your laptop with you. Now vacations are meant to keep you away from everything, but those who are addicted to the internet, won’t spare their vacations either. Hence you should make sure that there is no way for you to go online during your vacation. (via dumb little man)

• what is the cost of distractions in the work place?

The average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes, and, once distracted, a worker takes nearly a half-hour to resume the original task, according to Gloria Mark, a leader in the new field of “interruption science.” (via new york times)

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Daniel of Hack Your Day fame has an excellent rebuttal to my “Is it time for a paradigm shift” post….

I think many people fail to realize what productivity hacks are, or they are poorly defined. First of all, when working online (but it applies to anywhere else), you have to separate tasks into four groups, based purely on how much money they make you, or how much does this get you done directly.

you can read the rest here

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Are you just one power nap away from success?

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Desktop mind mapping heavyweight Mindjet have moved their junk online…..

Mindjet, the most successful vendor of mind mapping software (their Windows and Mac versions have both shown strong growth over the last few years, despite professional-level price tags) has finally joined the online mind mapping market as well. Their new Mindjet Connect site offers an online collaboration home for users of their software, plus a new web version (produced in Flash) that allows you to create and share mind maps without owning the desktop version. (via web worker daily)

My current mind mapping tool of choice is a Moleskine and a G2 pen.

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I reached an epiphany about a year ago that it became clear to me that most of my online activity was a colossal waste of time. So away went all of my tech podcast’s, I unsubscribed to nearly all of my RSS feeds and the hours spent wandering around YouTube happily went away. Also with the help of the Lord I was able to extricate myself from the clutches of Twitter. Now I stand a free man ready to be somewhat productive.

With most of the time sucks removed from my life I now find myself able to get some things done and now I’m just plain happier.

Hacks, tweaks, tricks, etc. have emerged from a productivity hobbyist culture, are largely insufficient at solving bigger life problems, and often do not increase productivity. These hacks etc. are vestiges of the largely "techie" demographic of the early (but self-reinforcing) blogosphere. (via the growing life)

I work from my home office with little to no direct supervision so I need to practice some serious self management in order to be effective. I found that removing the mental and physical clutter from my life has greatly increased my personal productivity. Once the digital distractions were reduced to a minimum the quantity and quality of my work increase. Productivity is as much what you don’t do as what you do…

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