Introducing the Hipster PDA

This article was originally posted during the first week of 43 Folders' existence, and, pound for pound, it remains one of the most popular page on the site. Please be sure to also visit related pages, browse our Hipster PDA topic area, plus, of course you can search on the Hipster PDA across our family of sites. Recently, I got sick of lugging my Palm V around, so I developed a vastly superior, greatly simplified device for capturing and sharing information. I call it “The Hipster PDA.” Beauty & Simplicity The Hipster PDA (Parietal Disgorgement Aid) is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. Building your first Hipster PDA get a bunch of 3"x5" file cards (here’s 500 for around 3 bucks)clip them together with a binder clipthere is no step 3 Settings & Preferences For you hotrods who like to tweak your equipment, I’ll note a few mods you might make to the basic configuration. “Getting Things Done” with your Hipster PDA Related: Index cards • Productivity

amazon How to Use Flow to Make You More Productive Join us in Miami, Chicago or Denver for our Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off in February. Discover solutions to optimize team performance, improve company productivity, and position your business for continued success. See dates and details » The average person has 70,000 thoughts each day, and if you don’t learn to organize them, they have the potential to wreak havoc on your productivity. When you succumb to the flurry of thoughts running through your head, your mind becomes disorganized, and the more you ruminate on intrusive thoughts, the more power you give them. Most of our thoughts are just that -- thoughts, not facts. In a recent study conducted at the National Institute on Aging, it was found that allowing your mind to be disorganized doesn’t just feel bad, it’s also actually bad for you. Related: 11 Things Ultra-Productive People Do Differently (Infographic) An organized mind, on the other hand, falls into a state of flow. Step 2: Take control of your emotions

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Redesigning My Productivity: The 1–2–3 To-Do List Everybody loves lists. I’m obsessed with them. There was a lengthy period in my life when I felt like the longer my to-do list was, the more I got validated as a Multitasking, Stress-Loving, Badass Go-Getter. (I loved tweeting about how much of a busy workaholic I was. But as I kept that up, my to-do lists started to look more like WISH LISTS. No matter what I did, my lists just kept getting longer and longer, and more and more, tasks were getting carried over to the next day. And so, after weeks and weeks of feeling all over the place, I decided to rethink my to-do list and making them more doable — by making them SHORTER. Now, it may seem counterintuitive — how can you get more done, if your to-do list is shorter? My redesigned method is not so much about the length, as that’s a productivity technique that’s been harped on time and again, but the biggest change I implemented was making sure I started my day with two core principles: Focus and Intention. The 1–2–3 List 1 Major Mission 1. 2.

Getting Things Done - wat het is » lifehacking.nl Getting Things Done van David Allen is het briljante stress- en timemanagement systeem van David Allen. Laat me een paar dingen noemen die maken dat Getting Things Done zo’n goed systeem is en wat het voor jou zou kunnen doen. CNN heeft een mooi artikel gepubliceerd over Getting Things Done (Engels). Je kunt het hier lezen. Getting Things Done: waar is het voor nodig? De meeste mensen die dit lezen, zijn op de één of andere manier kenniswerkers. Kenniswerk is relatief nieuw en vraagt om nieuwe methodes en manieren van denken. Ik had daar al aardig wat over geleerd in de dagelijkse praktijk. Maar Getting Things Done van David Allen gaf me nog een heleboel extra! Wat zijn de voordelen van Getting Things Done? Ik zal een paar voordelen noemen, dingen die ik heb gezien in mijn eigen leven en werk toen ik dit begon toe te passen. Het is flexibel. Alles bij elkaar ben ik zéér tevreden en erg enthousiast over Getting Things Done. Toen ben ik maar een Nederlandstalige training gaan bouwen.

Handboek Communities nu ook als gratis PDF verkrijgbaar Het Handboek Communities is nu ook als gratis pdf verschenen. Het boek van Erwin Blom over de kracht van sociale netwerken, kwam twee weken geleden in boekvorm uit (de tweede druk is al in de maak), maar is nu ook digitaal verkrijgbaar. Blom (The Crowds, ex-VPRO) beschrijft in zijn boek uit eigen ervaring en aan de hand van best practices wat valkuilen en succesfactoren zijn bij de inzet van social media. Het proces rondom Handboek Communities is ook een zoektocht naar nieuwe verdienmodellen rondom uitgeven. Download de pdf nu gratis: (Directe PDF link!) 30 november wordt in Seats2Meet in Utrecht een evenement rondom Handboek Communities georganiseerd. Wil je er bij zijn?