Tag Archives: Organizing

Save Money on these Notetaker Items. If You Want To.

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Bruce Keener

When I broke the pen in my David Allen Notetaker Wallet, which I’ve had for over 10 years, I went to David’s online store to look for a replacement. The store had two models of the Notetaker pen, one for … Continue reading →

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The Most Important Part of GTD: Capturing Information

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Bruce Keener

You can build all sorts of useful task and project lists, and be rigorous in conducting your weekly review and planning sessions, but if you don’t have a good information capture system, you are missing the most important part of … Continue reading →

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Resources for Organizing with Evernote

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Bruce Keener

I recently mentioned how useful Evernote is for collecting, organizing, and managing information. Today I want to mention three resources that go into great depth on how to organize information in Evernote. These resources are: My friend Ruud Hein’s writeup … Continue reading →

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Resources for Improving Your Thinking and Decisions

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Bruce Keener

Hacker News has an excellent thread on books that can help you better understand and improve how you think and decide. Although most of the resources are books, there are some that are presented as websites and/or PDFs, and are … Continue reading →

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Yojimbo: An Organizer for Mac Folks

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Bruce Keener

When I got my iMac around Christmas 2006, I began searching for the most popular Mac software. Within a couple of weeks, I purchased Yojimbo 1.3 (Jan 2, 2007), because the reviews indicated that it was one of the Mac … Continue reading →

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Keeping the End in Mind with Projects and Goals

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I hope my previous post made you keen on the importance of keeping the end in mind. Of course that post referred to the “final end” (what some call “the big chill”), but the principle of keeping the end in … Continue reading →

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Productivity and Sheer Will

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Entreprenuer Gary Vaynerchuk tweeted the following several months ago: Screw productivity and productivity products, I win with sheer will ….I know I am dumb In other words, he is saying he will not whittle away his life reading productivity blogs … Continue reading →

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Around the Web, 2009 Dec 10

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Bruce Keener

A few articles you might find useful: Aaron Wall, in his Why do a fade in a web page, makes some good points about branding. This is a term that has been popular in social media for a long while, … Continue reading →

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Featured Comment: Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks App [iPhone, Touch]

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Reader Andrew Berrigan left a very informative comment on another post, and I wanted to be sure you were aware of it. In his comment, Andrew mentions Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. He gives a … Continue reading →

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The Week in Review 17 July 2009

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Here is a list of key articles published on Keener Living this week: Putting a barrier between you and your weaknesses, uses a personal case study to show one way to address your weaknesses head-on Chris Anderson’s book “Free” available … Continue reading →

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