Organization

Google Calendar From The Desktop

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

First time here? If you would like to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Before the weekend I discussed how I have deeply synchronized my desktop email client with Gmail. I did this because Gmail acts as my central […]

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GMail From The Desktop

Friday, February 8th, 2008

In a previous post regarding the consolidation of multiple email accounts into a single inbox, I mentioned that I use Gmail as my central mailbox. I also mentioned that because Gmail supports IMAP, you can use both the Gmail web interface and a desktop email client to send and receive email while keeping both in […]

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Scan & Toss

Monday, February 4th, 2008

When I was cleaning out my office, I ended up with a small pile of ticket stubs from sporting events I have attended throughout the years. When you think about it, these things have no real practical use. However for me, and I suspect many others, ticket stubs maintain some real sentimental value like a […]

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Clean Desk Policy

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

I have a feeling this guy is not on any kind of information diet! Mr. Gore is not the only one whose workspace has been overtaken by clutter. Up until last week, my office was more of an exercise in entropy than a place to work. After having been inspired by a post in Lodewijk […]

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Managing Email

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The other day I was reading The Four Hour Trial where he laments over having to check email on multiple email accounts. The 4-Hour Workweek counsels us to immediately implement a personal policy of checking email only twice a day (with the ultimate goal of checking even less frequently - author Tim Ferriss boasts of […]

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Single Tasking

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

In a keynote speech to top CEO’s and government officials at the New New Internet Conference in Washington DC, 4-Hour Workweek author Timothy Ferriss makes the claim that people with the most time and the highest incomes are characterized by the ability to single task: focusing on the truly important, without interruption, to completion. Here […]

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Clutter

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

The 4-Hour Workweek credo describes the concept of elimination - eliminating or otherwise offloading the tasks that take up 80% of our time and yet add no, or only incremental value. It is not a matter of better organizing the time you spend on tasks (i.e. classic time management) but doing only the tasks that […]

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