I have been using TodoList by abstractspoon.com for about a month now, and I was easily impressed enough to donate to the author, but not as much as I probably should have for the usefulness of it.
I first started using it only as a “defect/feature” master list for one of my web sites.
Most of the articles I see about productivity list a lot of mundane type of tips, such as de-clutter your working space, or make a list the night before (which still can be helpful)
Game Producer’s blog entry includes excellent tips that really appeal to your emotional faculties, which to me is the deciding factor behind what you choose to do, among all of the possible things that you face.
Favorite one might be: #6 - Remind yourself about the feeling that motivated you
In short, it’s about recalling the last time you successfully completed or accomplished something, and recalling the full force of that feeling in the NOW moment which will drive your motivation without having to use willpower to do that thing.
This has nothing to do with being the end of the year. (i.e. These aren’t what I necessarily discovered in the past 12 months.)
I just felt like publicizing my currently favorite, most useful products/tools/languages.
PHP - Useful, easy, fun to use. Even just at home, I use PHP along with MySql to do several things on my private Apache server on my PC, ( including an “expected shipment” list where every time I order something, I enter in the item ordered, the U.P.S. tracking number along with a link to U.P.S. website, and a checkbox to check when received.)
Specifically, the Axim x51v. Amazing device. No, I don’t have one, but I’ve read the great reviews on Amazon, and read the specs on the Dell Website.
The previous post, I recommended getting a laptop, if there’s the least chance of you travelling and needing mobile Internet access. But this beauty will definitely do in a pinch. (Especially for stuff like Email, or you want to use Yahoo maps for directions)
The vast majority of stuff I listen to with my 30gig MP3 player are not music, but instead marketing/self-help/ other non-fiction stuff like:
Is it really that futile? I’m talking about waiting for a company to produce an electronic device for the sole purpose of reading PDF’s ?? Many writers, more and more, have been offering PDF versions of their books.
I have a huge collection of pdf books - like many people - that I have been wanting to read, but up to now, have simply been organizing them into a tree of Windows folders.
I’ve went through so many freeware or trial-runs of shareware utilities that somehow, in one way or another, allow you to quickly launch your most-used Windows folders.
One of them was an explorer-imitation that had extra features. It was called “super windows - something - 2000″, I forgot.
Also tried an App created by Norton 15 years ago or so, but I forget the name.
I then decided to just start using DOS batch files to open folders.
I don’t think that the National Geographic channel cares whether or not I get this blog entry written, otherwise they’d stop airing so many good shows this morning on wolves and tigers.
Anyway, I like what Yuga wrote about Stephen Covey’s Sharpen The Saw principle at
http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=529&cp=all
I decided to make today, a Sunday of straightening out the way I organize files, ebooks. I also wanted to ramp up how efficiently I automate entering data in various places.
