So the solution was that any time you had a question you had to write it down on these pre-printed tablets of paper called “point sheets” and once you had accumulated enough questions you could bring them en masse to your boss (everyone who worked at Andersen in the early 90’s is giving a small chuckle from nostalgia about right now).
And the funny thing – by the time you were ready to walk through 7-8 issues with your boss you realize that you had already figured out 3 or 4 of them on your own.
(Link: Quick Hack to Make Your Boss (and you) More Productive | Both Sides of the Table)
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Keep track of all your notes, todos dates, and tags in a easy, quick, text based format. Productivity isn’t about drop-downs, or rating systems. It’s about quickly recording the things that need done, capturing what you don’t want to forget, and charting your way to the finish line.
(Link: Paprika – Simple Text Based Productivity by Paste.)
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With scraplr you can exchange tasks with friends, and even get suggestions on how to get your task done.
Scraplr can also send you reminders for your tasks by tweets, email, instant message and text message to your
cellphone; which means you’ll have less chance of missing your important things!
(Link: Scraplr – Task Container)
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To do this in OS X, open Terminal and navigate to your Dropbox directory (Type: cd Dropbox ). You’ll now need to create a symbolic link to your Documents directory (Type: ln -s ~/Documents/ Documents ). That’s it! You’re done! You can see in the screenshot below, a new “directory” appears with a black arrow on the icon. This is to indicate that it is a symbolic link, which we’ve set to point to your Documents directory. Dropbox will now begin synchronizing the files within that directory.
(Link: 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks)
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NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.
(Link: Notational Velocity)
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So we rolled our own. matewatch simply checks what TextMate documents you’re editing and records the intervals of time that those documents are frontmost in TextMate.
(Link: OS X TextMate user? free time tracker: matewatch)
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# A simple time tracker for Mac OS X by Nat Friedman (nat@nat.org).
#
# Written May 6, 2010 in Munich, while a soft rain fell.
#
# Run this script in a terminal. It displays activity statistics
# from the last 24 hours, like this:
#
# 2m 55s Google Chrome
# 2m 51s TextMate
# 1m 7s Terminal
# 37s Colloquy
(Link: trackmac – A simple time tracker for Mac OS X)
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How does To→done work?
Tell us what you need to get done and about how long you think it’ll take.
When you have time, ask To→done for something to do.
To→done will give you a task that fits in the amount time you have.
Either finish the task or give up and try again later.
(Link: Get things done. Simple todo list – without the list.)
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Plancake is a free online task and list manager to help you get organized. It is open source and is a great tool for Getting Things Done (GTD).
(Link: PlanCake – Open Source and Free Tasks Manager and Todo Lists)
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Saying Yes More Slowly
Here’s how it goes.
Someone asks you to do something.
And, while nodding your head, you say “Sure – and let me just ask you a few questions first.”
And then you pick and chose from some of these questions. (Your goal is to ask at least three of these.)
* Why are you asking me?
* Who else have you asked?
* When you say this is urgent, what do you mean?
* If I could only do part of this, what part would it be?
* What part of this is something that only I could do?
* What standard do you expect this to be done to?
* Is this more urgent than X, Y and Z that are currently on my list?
* Have you checked with [name] about me taking this on?
* How does this contribute to [Great Work Project]?
(Link: Kill Busywork: The One Skill to Focus On What Matters | Zen Habits)
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Free and Easy Email Reminder
On your next email just include time-interval@followupthen.com and we will follow up after the time interval you specify.
(Link: FollowUpThen: Free, Fast and Simple Email Reminder)
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