How an extreme website makeover enhanced Dan Gold’s productivity, + Power of 21
How an extreme website makeover enhanced my productivity. Dan Gold at DEG Consulting has revamped his website and added to his product list. He now has Kindle and audio versions of his guide to using Evernote to Getting Things Done, as well as a new workbook to developing new habits. He also has new icons [...]
David Allen, Getting Things Done and GTD :: NoteTaker Wallets and Pens
Our elegant NoteTaker Wallet, personally designed and used by David Allen. Compact 3” x 4 3/4″ design features 2 compartments for holding up to 5 cards, with 2 additional pockets for receipts or business cards. Original design in black leather. via David Allen, Getting Things Done and GTD :: NoteTaker Wallets and Pens. If you’re [...]
Dan Gold’s popular eBook “Evernote®: The unofficial eBook” is selling like hot cakes
Read the GTD book? Have Evernote? Haven’t put the two together yet? This blog post is for you.
Evernote: Which is more useful – a “later” tag or a “this week” tag?
TSW (The Secret Weapon) is a GTD (Getting Things Done) system that integrates Evernote and Outlook for capturing and processing work, i.e. actionable items. The website has clear and detailed videos on how to set this up. For actionable items, I’d been using Dan Gold’s suggestion of “!Next” and “!!Today”. Then after watching TSW’s [...]
GTD “buckets”
My buckets. Not having these properly in place had been one obstacle that was causing a backlog of items to process. [...]
Back to lo-tech for GTD
I use a paper-based GTD filing system, as per David Allen’s suggestions. I also use various digital tools for collecting, storing, filing/archiving and setting up tasks or alarms:; mainly Evernote but recently also OneNote and Outlook. What the heck is this envelope doing on my shoes? Oh yeah! I need to take this to work… [...]
How to never forget the milk
Dan Gold recently posted a screencast about a cool tool called Followupthen, and I posted this comment: Clear and concise screencast. Followupthen, I can see working for someone who spends most of their time working at their computer: they would most likely be at their computer when the email arrives, and (hopefully) will READ the [...]
Naming files
In his video on going paperless, Brooks Duncan says it doesn’t really matter what you name a file, and he gives an example where he names a pdf that he’s just imported into Evernote. He puts the date of the pdf, or the date it was created, at the front then adds a descriptive title. [...]
Newsflash!! “Productivity tools” don’t necessarily make you more productive!
I’ve been playing around with OneNote, Evernote, SkyDrive and some note-taking apps on the iPad2. And, gennelmen and ladies, I’ve discovered that using these tools does not necessarily result in greater productivity! Why not? First, there is the time it takes to learn to use these tools effectively (although that’s true for almost any endeavour) [...]
There’s an app for that…
Update: the article I linked to below is very useful. It shows me how to do something that I’ve long wanted to learn how to do, namely sync calendars and tasks across applications. Basically it includes using Google sync. In his classic book Getting Things Done (GTD to the cognoscenti), Dave Allen points out how [...]
