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How to Automatically Clean and Organize Your Desktop, Downloads, and Other Folders.

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Evernote. How to Stop Fiddling With Productivity Tools To Get More Done. We purchase shiny new tools that promise us more, better, and faster in anything that we can conceive.

How to Stop Fiddling With Productivity Tools To Get More Done

The newest software vendors claim their tools are the missing piece of the puzzle and with them you can get more done with less effort. And if you don’t subscribe to a certain productivity methodology, you will be a lost soul in the see of knowledge work. Is this something that you think about or battle on a regular basis? Why we fiddle and look for productivity tools I’ve been around the block when it comes to todo list apps, GTD apps, notetaking software, document management, and data management applications. The market for these types of apps is huge and it isn’t necessarily because people need more apps that can organize them better than any other one.

Let’s get down to brass tacks. You get you organized. This is the reason why we productivity nuts obsess with tools and “fiddle” rather than work and be productive with what we have. How to stop and get more done.

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Free Backup Software – Best Windows Backup Software Programs. Backing up data regularly should be one of the most important tasks of every computer user; Yet only a minority is doing it thoroughly and regularly.

Free Backup Software – Best Windows Backup Software Programs

The rest is flirting with disaster as there are numerous incidents that can delete data on computer systems. The most common ones are hardware failures, which can mean damaged hard drives but also (partially) unreadable CDs or DVDs, computer virus attacks but also human error. If you have ever met someone who partitioned the wrong hard drive you know that the latter can be cause for great frustration. Backups are the single most effective method of preventing data loss on computer systems. The following article will list the 10 best Windows backup software programs.

EASEUS Todo Backup Free The Windows backup software has just recently been released in a new version. Cobian Backup. Geek to Live: Organizing "My Documents" D*I*Y Planner. No, I'm not dead. Although I can understand why some people believe that. As much as I dearly love this site, and all the interesting people that have sprung up from nowhere to contribute their experiences, their ideas and their passions, life has thrown me a curveball or two.

Back when this site began, I was living in Newfoundland, Canada. I was doing contractual work (web development, training and marketing/communications consulting), and owing to the scarcity of such jobs in that locale, was blessed with plenty of spare time. I could afford to spend a thousand hours (yes, that many) working on hundreds of forms. Today is different. In short, live is no longer easy, and it's truly difficult to find time for my old passions. It's rare that I speak of things that are very personal, but I figured I owed you folks an explanation. So, where are we now? There have been rumours that I am selling the site. We've had to turn off new user registration because we were being spammed to death. Greplin Searches Your Online Life from One Box, Now Open to Everyone. The Step-by-Step Guide to Digitizing Your Life. Five Best Note Taking Applications.

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Tools (Timer, Blocker, Activity Logging) Starting Out. Lifehacker. Online Task Management - Producteev. Online Task Management - Producteev. If This Then That Integrates and Automates Your Online Tools. To-Do. Notes - Quick Notes on Windows. Simplenote Downloads. ResophNotes Is an Excellent Simplenote-Syncing Notes App for Windows. The Holy Grail of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture. Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox bring child-like wonder. The phrase "game changer" is no doubt cliché and overused, but every now and again it just fits.

Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox bring child-like wonder

I had heard about Notational Velocity when Merlin Mann posted about it on 43Folders. It changed how I use my iMac, MacBookPro, and iPhone, bringing them all together in a very cool way. The app has been around for awhile (we talked about it five years ago!) But some new features and new technologies make it well worth another look. It took me a minute to understand why I'd want Notational Velocity, it because it sounded like yet another "everything box" like Yojimbo, which I was already using. Notational Velocity does save notes, either in ASCII, RTF, or HTML, but with the latest version, Notational Velocity syncs with Simplenote or WriteRoom for iPhone. Imagine if Apple had created an over-the-air method of syncing Notes and it all Just Worked. It would be unfair and inaccurate to call Notational Velocity a replacement for Yojimbo.