5 ways to be more productive. Solstice might just be my new favourite (non-)holiday.
As the sun peaks its highest excursion relative to the celestial equator, we experience the longest day and the shortest night. This tends to lead us to venture out into the wilderness, stay up all night and watch the sunrise with friends. It can be a good time to take a step back, take stock and conduct some honest self assessment and try to figure out what's working in our lives and what is not, well that's what I found myself doing this weekend at least.
Chris Bailey, a business graduate student took a year to throw himself head first into the gargantuan literature on productivity and explore the methods he stumbled across with a little self experimentation. What Bailey's come up with is pretty splendid. For a quick introduction to Bailey's project, check out his top ten lessons and if that whets your appetite check out his top 100 tips. 1. Schedule less time for important tasks. 2. 3. 4. “Clear to neutral.” 5. Productivity Strategies. WOW - Ways of Working. Graphic Organizers and Mind Maps. Iomap Public Beta Launch. Mohiomap is now available to the public with its launch of open beta!
Mohiomap is a web application for visualizing and navigating your Evernote notebooks. With Mohiomap, we aim to provide you with a unique and dynamic experience of visually exploring your Evernote notebooks. Using your browser, you will be able to see your notebooks in graphs (networks) and, with your mouse, you will be able to navigate around the display. Mohiomap is ideal for Evernote users who want to see their notebooks in a new light, find out hidden relationships, and create a more meaningful experience out of the structures of their notes, tags, and notebooks. Screenshot of Mohiomap Mohiomap features simple mouse-based navigation, where you can click on a notebook to load its notes arranged in groups of tags, or click on a note to see all of its related notes.
Your notes and notebooks to identify information such as common relationships across notebooks, activity patterns, etc. Mohiomap beta is free for everyone. Can you manage GTD lists with a spreadsheet. GTD spreadsheet. Dave's wiki / Getting Things Done. Info on using wiki for GTD GTD is a planning system that has you: move all of your commitments to do things out of your head and onto a written list,formulate those listed commitments as discrete actions,group those listed commitments into categories, so that whatever situation you are in, you can find a group of listed commitments appropriate to that situation,review your list at least once a week to check off completed actions and write down new commitments to act.
My Tudomo page GTD summary CNN interview with GTD founder article on inbox with wikipad another article on GTD inbox with wikipad page of scanned text on GTD projects GTD TiddlyWiki List of GTD tools Kelly Forrister GTD Blog - good stuff here Adding form to Google GTD spreadsheet - this is really cool! Link to my GTD form - this works great! GTD Times - mindmaps Excel implementation of GTD article Manual Gantt chart in excel Planner view using excel by GTD Wannabe Another GTD Blog Using a wiki for GTD GTD refresher Dogmelon guide to GTD -etc.