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Archive for the 'Organization' Category

Gmail is slow lately

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Is it just me or is Gmail unusually slow this past week or so?

Remember the Milk

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

I’ve been using this Remember the Milk website off and on since being introduced to it in early February (thanks Jeremy).
What is it? Take a gander over on their website and you will see, the focus is on providing a tool for users that will make it easier to organize and remember things. [...]

Managing your Email

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

I’ve posted about this a few times already. While the “12-steps” pokes a little fun, it’s unfortunately true.
A couple of my favorite snippets from the 12-steps:
Deal immediately with any e-mail that can be handled in two minutes or less but create a file for mails that will take longer.
Again with the files. And two [...]

Context switching… it’s harmful. How can we “get things done”?

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

We’ve got a problem.
These days, there are no shortages of interruptions. Cell phones, pagers, email, IM, RSS feeds, blogs, and now twitter.
As a developer in a rather small team, at any given time I’ve got several projects I’m working on. Each with a relatively significant duration. In other words, I’m busy, and [...]

More on increasing productivity - get in the “zone”

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Funny, I’ve never come across any specific posts or articles on this before - until now. I’ve long been one to preach this “zone” that we get into. Especially while at my last job, I found I rarely got into my “zone” unless I either came in a couple hours before anyone else [...]

It’s time for Google Calendar!

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Well, I’ve been speculating about this for quite some time, I’m happy to see it’s finally arrived! That’s right, Google has released it’s Calendar and as expected it is integrated with Gmail.
Excellent!

Increase productivity with fewer distractions

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Behind deadlines, behind on email, behind on housework… you name it we all face the crunch at one time or another. Some more often than others.
Personally, I find the housework piles up more than my email, the projects more than the housework. Sometimes it’s a classic case of procrastination but often it’s simply [...]