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Hello! Welcome to acidlabs. You look to be new here, so you may want to read about Stephen Collins, the work of acidlabs, or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!June and July were insanely busy months working with my biggest client. I pulled some very long hours and got very behind [...]
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Be prepared. Simple.
While I’m one to agree with the 37signals view on meetings, they are often an inevitable and necessary evil in the day of us web workers. Over at About.com, there are some great tips on organising meetings to avoid the flow-destroying passion-suck that almost always happens.
I work in a town where [...]
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If you are at all interested in the Getting Things Done program (not the right word, but the best I can do), you should check out Merlin’s recap of his best (against several, mostly objective measures) GTD posts from 2006.
I am about 50-50 on GTD; not fully bought in, but significantly better organised than I [...]
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Totally seriously, WWD has another excellent post up. This time on time management for us web workers.
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I very much like this.
Regular readers of acidlabs will know we’re fans of Getting Things Done. Eric Mack extends David’s Two Minute Rule to email – if the email will take more than two minutes to reply to, just delete it.
Now, this is obviously an idea that needs a little tweaking. Sometimes you [...]
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Merlin Mann of 43folders fame has posted an excellent summary of what it takes as a knowledge worker to really prioritise those “look into” projects. He examines a number of verbs GTDers can use as contexts for their knowledgework.
I’ve updated kGTD to reflect these.
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While further exploring the idea of virtual desktops on OS X, as I wrote about the other day, I have come across VirtueDesktops. Based on the original DesktopManager codebase, VirtueDesktops brings teh sexxay to desktop management on OS X.
It seems to be very stable, and, as stated by the developer “under active development”, whereas [...]
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If, like me, you are a PowerBook owner who has either:
used a desktop with multiple monitors
used a *nix distro
you’ll be familiar with the concept of using multiple desktops, either physical or virtual In order to improve your productivity. In Linux/Unix of pretty much every flavor, this has been standard fare for just about [...]
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A notebook bag by any other name still holds your notebook (with sincere apologies to The Bard). True, but it may not be what you really want.
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If like me, you’re a GTDer, you’ll find Giles Turnbull’s The GTD Prayer enormously funny.
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