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June and July were insanely busy months working with my biggest client. I pulled some very long hours and got very behind on some email and feed reading tasks.
In an effort to relieve the self-imposed pressure of catching up, I now have a near-zero Inbox and have set most of my feeds to read. [...]
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I’ve raved about 43 Folders and Merlin Mann here before – for those of us who use GTD, it’s a veritable goldmine.
Just last week, Merlin launched The Merlin Show, a weekly-ish video podcast where Merlin will be interviewing interesting folks about lifehacking, self-management, tech working and pretty much anything else that takes his fancy.
So [...]
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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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Useful advice from Web Worker Daily considering my recent experience where I have been collaborating with Donna Jensen from Avenue A | Razorfish who is based in New York. Her workday of the day before ends as mine begins, i.e. 0900 Tuesday = 1700 Monday.
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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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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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