Tag Archives: Organizing

Have You Simplified Your Life Enough?

One of the things I tried to do during my sabbatical last week was to simplify my life. Specifically, I worked on improving what I call my signal-to-noise ratio. Now that I have been retired for about 9 months, and … Continue reading

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Staying on Top of It with ListPro

I am a big fan of lists. Having a good set of checklists and reference lists can save you lots of time and can help reduce errors. That is one of the reasons I like ListPro. In this post we … Continue reading

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Using a How-To Directory

I came across a great tip a while back, which I think was on Matt Cutts’ site: set up a directory called “How To” and dump in text files on individual how-to-do-this items. I wish I had started this years … Continue reading

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Saving Time and Reducing Errors With Checklists

Recently Steve Pavlina wrote an article on “microtasks,” talking about breaking activities into doable bits. Steve indicated that his microtasks are different from David Allen’s more common “Next Action” terminology, but still looks like next actions to me. Regardless, he … Continue reading

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An Electronic Wallet for Your BlackBerry

I realize that I haven’t written very many articles for BlackBerry owners but I know several of you own BlackBerrys. Hence, I thought I should make you aware of a good program you may want to check out: SplashWallet for … Continue reading

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Capturing Thoughts Before They Are Gone

As you are probably well aware, capturing information before it is lost is a key to good time management: capture all of your ToDo’s and ideas as soon as you have them, put them in a trusted system, and process … Continue reading

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Compact Your Outlook Data Files

Even if you do your best to keep your Microsoft Outlook inbox empty, your Outlook data file will continue to grow and and can eventually impact Outlook’s performance … unless you remember to periodically compact the data file. Fortunately, compacting … Continue reading

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Organizing Programs on a Pocket PC: Part 2 of 2

In the Part 1 of this two-part series, we talked about using a Program Launcher as a time-saving tool for you. Here in Part 2, we talk about how you can accomplish much the same thing without incurring the “memory … Continue reading

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Organizing Programs on a Pocket PC: Part 1 of 2

In my post the other day on Magic Button, I committed to telling you how to get along without a program launcher. I will do that in the Part 2 of this post. In this post, we will talk about … Continue reading

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Planning Tools for Visual People

There are probably innumerable tools for the visual person to do planning. (By “visual person” I mean someone, like me, who likes to see the big picture of a plan, or to see things at-a-glance, so to speak.) The tool … Continue reading

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