Planner Pads - business organizer, day planner, personal calendar, time management products. Main - tomontime - Main Page. - Wiki for "Time Management for System Administrators" Moleskin: OMG! 365 days, one-page-per-day, and the entire thing fits in your pocket. You have to see it to believe it. Sadly, once they sell out for the year, you have to wait for next year's edition! Here is an article about the 2010 edition: New 2010 Moleskines are available Order this on Amazon: Order it Looks interesting.
Anyone tried it? Some PAA Devices: iPhone / Mac: Appigo Todo and Todo Cloud for iPhone is simple and powerful, with great syncing. Windows Phone: Top Task List for Windows Phone gets good reviews. Multi-Platform: Remember the Milk is a web-based Todolist that also offers client software for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry, and can be integrated into the web interface of Google Mail and Google Calendar Linux and Emacs: Emacs Org-Mode: Emacs users celebrate! Palm Back when I had a Palm Treo I swore by Pimlico's DateBk6 (I started with DateBk4 and upgraded through to the last release) DateBook6 by PIMLICO Software.
How to Manage Your Time on a Chaotic, Irregular Schedule. The Dash/Plus System. History Dash/Plus is a metadata markup system I created for paper based notes to mark the status of action items on a todo list. It quickly evolved to be equally well versed at marking up meeting notes for easy scanning and processing. This is mainly designed for those who keep lists or take notes using pen or pencil and paper. I first wrote about this system in a 2006 whitepaper that outlined most of my productivity tools and methods at the time. Much has changed since then but the dash/plus system remained steadfast and is still in use by me (and many others now) every day. Yet, there was no place that it alone was fully outlined and permanently lived. Practice (Dash): Undone Action Item — Individual items (action items and ideas) are marked with a dash preceding them. (Plus): Done Action Item — If the item is an action item (todo), when the item is complete, a vertical line is drawn through the “dash” thus making it resemble a “plus”.
See also: Extending Dash Plus Recommended Items. Org-Fu Überpost – Productivity Whitepaper. Summary The purpose of this document is to outline all of the methods, practices, software and hardware (both HiFi and LoFi) I use to Get Things Done. This will provide a general outline of my system including keeping track of actions, projects, calendar items, contacts, etc. Most of my system is based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology with many modifications and fluctuations to suit my needs. I will basically lay this out in the order of my “flow”.
From capture to compartment to practice. Tools Capturing Device – Paper I use a Moleskine Lined Pocket Notebook as my main capturing device. The dash/plus system goes like this. It looks something like this: - Get Dog Food and treats for Roy - Project: Proposal for new Mac purchases + Productivity Whitepaper project - Doctor’s appointment 4/14/06 @ 2:00pm to Calendar + Call Tom Miller re: Dinner - Phil’s Mobile: 612-555-5555 - Deposit Check - Someday: Learn to play golf There are a couple of other Moleskine Hacks that I employ.
Bob Newell » Lotus Agenda. We present a page of information and downloads dedicated to Lotus Agenda, the venerable DOS information manager, which is now over 20 years old, still alive, and judging by the amount of email we get, pretty lively. Big News More Agenda materials have been uncovered and links will appear here in due course. We thank an "Agenda friend" for this. Agenda runs on Android! We haven't finished complete testing, but using a product called DosBox Turbo we were able to get Agenda running on a Droid X phone. There are some significant usage difficulties in that the F-keys, Alt key, etc., have to be emulated on a software keyboard.
But it definitely does work. We've also found a possible way to run Agenda in a web browser using a Java port of DosBox. We're Often Asked Do we still use Agenda? If You Need A Little Help We are delighted to hear from Agenda users and do the best we can to answer brief questions via email as our available time permits. If You Need Help Beyond Casual Questions Agenda Manuals. Duct tape pocket edc organiser. I almost bought myself the Maxpedition mini organiser recently, but thought I might have a quick go at making one for myself.
Now duct tape is never going to look nice, but this doesn't need to, it'll only sit in a cargo trouser pocket, or a slip pocket in my Rush delivery bag. In total this cost about 30p and 40mins of my Sunday evening. Sorry I didn't do much of a WIP. I kept forgetting to take pics. But you get the general ideal. So... Pen Computing Magazine: IBM ThinkPad TransNote. A remarkable computer that didn't make it by Conrad Blickenstorfer Note: The IBM ThinkPad TransNote is a discontinued product. I recently bought one from TigerDirect for $799 and like it so much that I felt compelled to write and publish this review. (published March 20, 2002) What if you had a computer that was also a notepad? That's why IBM tried it a different way with the ThinkPad TransNote which premiered in February of 2001. Let me explain the basic concept. In order for the computer to fit into such a confined space IBM designed a flat slate that contains all the electronics and the keyboard.
The notebook part of the 5.5 pound TransNote consists of a standard 8-1/2x11 paper notepad sitting on top of an electronic digitizer. The overall idea is that the TransNote lets you use a computer when you need one but also lets you use a simple paper notepad when you want to use one. The key to manage ink is a program called InkManager Pro that resides on the computer side of the TransNote. How we work: writing standing up, in bed - rodcorp. In the 19th century it was common to write standing up at a writing desk, leaning on a high stool. Thus we find that (presumably amongst many others) Lewis Carroll, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway*, Thomas Jefferson, Fernando Pessoa, George Sand and Virginia Woolf all wrote standing up. And Philip Roth does today. Conversely, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain and Woody Allen wrote in bed. * despite the fact that his first rule for aspiring writers was "Apply the seat of the pants to the seat of a chair".
Sources:mjones (thanks) and: Lunatics, authors, and getting black on white, The Hemingway Lifestyle, "Conversations with Ernest Hemingway" edited by Matthew J. More how we work. Smart Notebook by Moleskine. NowMap: Introduction | PigPog. Latest Update: added link to the basic A4 nowMap templates. A simple organisation tool – just a single sheet of paper. Maybe you like the idea of being a bit more together, of knowing what you’re up to at any point, but you don’t feel the need for a whole system to keep you organised. Or, maybe you actually do GTD, and just feel like you’re lacking a quick at-a-glance overview of what’s on your plate now. The nowMap is a simple idea – make a mindmap of all the things that you’re working on or are on your mind at the moment, just on one sheet. Pics missing – sorry. If you’re already familiar with the idea of mindmapping, you could probably stop reading right here, and work it all out ok for yourself.
Drawing Your Own Take a sheet of A4 or Letter paper, landscape format (wide, not tall), and draw a margin on the right, about an inch in. See the area in the middle? The right hand margin is just for ‘meta’ information – anything about this sheet. Downloading PDFs Draw a box around each one. D*I*Y Planner | the best thing in printing since Gutenberg. 100 Amazing Ways to Hack Your Moleskine Notebook.