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Your Life The Role Playing Game. Soundrown. Timer. "Countdown Timer" is a high quality Short Interval Timer and Quick Alarm with LARGE digits. "Countdown Timer" makes taking time easy and fun. Just swipe and go!! "Countdown Timer" is quick, reliable and battery efficient. Master the Art of the To-Do List by Understanding How They Fail. Hi Janet, Thanks for your interesting piece.

Master the Art of the To-Do List by Understanding How They Fail

From a GTD perspective, having a long list isn't necessarily a cause for anxiety—in fact, one of the "promises" of GTD is relief from anxiety by getting all the open loops out of your head. That said, I know many folks for whom the promise is never fulfilled, even with strict adherence to GTD principles and practices. So, in that sense, I think you're on to something. The most interesting part of the post for me was the statistics. All in all, though, I found that your stats didn't support your conclusion that to-do lists don't work. 78% of items completed within 24 hours of being listed and 59% of all items marked complete sounds pretty successful to me. Best wishes, Tara. The Hacked-Together Productivity Tool I Can't Live Without: My Master Planner. I have evolved a similar system.

The Hacked-Together Productivity Tool I Can't Live Without: My Master Planner

I kept forgetting things so I got a paper spiral bound log book and made an entry at the beginning of each day. I copied undone TODOs from yesterday to today. How to Focus and Stay Productive When You're Expected to Always Be Available. I used to close the door to my office, that way co-workers instinctively only came to me for important and urgent things.

How to Focus and Stay Productive When You're Expected to Always Be Available

That said, you have to keep your door open for at least 70% of your time in order for this to be effective. The door loses its effectiveness otherwise. Further, for email I use a little system that orders my email in three categories: Task management with a brain! Five Best To-Do List Managers. TASKK - Task management with a brain! Epic Win - Level-Up Your Life. Hipster Habit App. Home - Wunderkit. Take Your Ideas from Start to Finish with Wunderkit. Mindfulness Bell. 50+ Online To Do List Managers to Make Your Work and Life Organized. You would never like to forget any point that you had kept in your memory to discuss with the team members in the conference call.

Neither you would want to forget any item from the grocery list nor you would like to miss inviting any of your dear-most friends and family members to your birthday party. Would you? Definitely not. So though we all are pretty sure that we do not usually forget anything, but it happens that due to some pressure or limited time we miss some crucial entries in the list. KanbanFlow Is a Fast, Free To-Do Manager with a Built-In Pomodoro Timer. Most Popular To-Do List Manager: Astrid. How to Reclaim Your Time in Seven Days for a More Productive and Stress-Free Workday. Email Management Made Fun. A to-do list to organize your tasks. Get Tofu! Is a Collaborative To-Do List App with Push Notifications, Reminders, and More. Nirvana › GTD Software for Getting Things Done, Web 2.0 Style.

Time Tracker - A Personal Time Management Application - The Form Assembly. Time Tracker - a Time Management Solution Save in progress...

Time Tracker - A Personal Time Management Application - The Form Assembly

Time Tracker is a simple tool to keep track of the time you spend on any task. Think of it as a to-do-list with a clock. And yes, it's free . Need to Create Web Forms? Create Web Forms and Collect Responses in minutes. Start Timer Stop Timer Edit View Report Done Undone Delete Show Help IMPORTANT: This application is no longer supported and will eventually be taken down. Copyright Veer West LLC © 2005 - 2011 | Privacy Notice & Terms of Service Help: What is this all about?

This tool was designed to help you keep track of the time you spend on any task. How does it work? Voo2do - simple, beautiful web-based to-do lists. Task Scoresheet. Checkvist: collaborative online outliner and checklist. Free Online Calendar and Mobile Application For Busy Families. EsyPlanner – Manage Your Day With This Easy Scheduler & Daily Task Manager.

Time management apps are one area which has seen a lot of hustle and bustle in the last few years.

esyPlanner – Manage Your Day With This Easy Scheduler & Daily Task Manager

And just like the hours in a day, we can’t have enough of them. We all have our favorites. 25 To Do Lists to Stay Productive. I come across many services a day while researching for Solution Watch, and as many of you know, I take a lot of notes to organize my thoughts about them.

25 To Do Lists to Stay Productive

Until recently, the only method that I used to keep organized with the services I wanted to write about was by reviewing my notes and email, then selecting one from the list. What Are Your Favorite, Lesser-Known Web Apps That Help You Get Things Done? Zen Apps: Desktop Tools to Organize Your Brain. Great believers in the power of organization to drive productive creativity, we’re always on the look out for new (and preferably free) tech applications that can help us stay on track, improve focus, or just waste less time on the unimportant stuff.

Zen Apps: Desktop Tools to Organize Your Brain

Here, we run down a few recent faves that are helping us magnify our ability to make ideas happen: Evernote. A one-stop system for visual filing. Recently, I decided to completely digitize my personal files using Evernote. Receipts, medical files, and old business plans have all been imported into notebooks, while my myriad of magazine pulls have been similarly organized into a quickly accessible visual database (that’s entirely personalized). Pathfinder.A turbo-charged version of the regular Mac finder. Upgrading to Pathfinder (on Merlin Mann’s recommendation) was like when I traded in my basic Nokia phone for an iPhone – entirely new vistas opened up. Tungle.Schedule meetings without the excess back-and-forth.

15 Awesome Time Management Tools and Apps. As promised in my previous post regarding time management, here I am with a list of cool tools that can help you manage your time effectively and become more productive in your work.

15 Awesome Time Management Tools and Apps

Since I am a big fan of tools which are operating system independent, you will find that most of these tools are browser-based and can work on any computer whether it is Windows, Mac or Linux. By the way, since I am also a fan of saving money, you will also notice that all of these tools are free! Launchy launchy.net/">Launchy is a tool for Windows users and as the name indicates, it helps launch files, folders, and programs in a single keystroke instead of searching through the start menu or file manager. A huge timesaver. QuicksilverQuicksilver is an awesome Mac-based tool which is like an advanced version of Launchy. HyperwordsHyperwords is a Firefox add-on and based on my personal experience, I can say that it is immensely useful.

Autohotkey / MemokeysAutohotkey is the Windows counterpart of Quicksilver. A free app that helps you remember.