I’ve noticed of late that I’ve been posting relatively few student-y posts, and since I always meant this to be a student-y weblog, I thought this little post at frugal for life (found via Lifehacker) might be relevant.
Now, I guess you could argue that stinky student flats are par for the course, or at least […]
So at the moment it’s a bit of a hassle to open large numbers of images in preview. Lifehacker have posted a handy little app called Xee which takes a lot of the kerfuffle of browsing through folders out, but I thought it might be worth noting that Preview can actually open whole folders at […]
OrganizeIT have posted a nice little meta-review of Your Best Year Yet by Jinny Ditzler, looking at concepts expounded in the book and expanding them into general GTD practice.
It’s interesting stuff - although it seems obvious on the surface it’s worthwhile to note that ‘Do’ and ‘Complete’ are different stages, as are ‘Complete and ‘Reward’. […]
I’ve lately found myself having to copy text out of a range of password-protected PDFs for Entirely Legal Reasons. Under Windows there’s a nice set of tools for engaging in such tomfoolery: see this lifehacker article for more info - but I’ve found a stupidly simple way to do this under Mac OS X, provided […]
Taking useful notes is really, really important across all fields - not just in an academic context. I use the cornell index card system for note taking, writing my notes on index cards and later ‘tagging’ the notes in the left-hand column.
The Proper Cornell System
Wikipedia details the Cornell system in great detail here - there […]
There’s a lot of talk in our little realm of productivity about handling and managing tasks, but relatively little on prioritizing them - what to do when and why. The Good Book itself talks about prioritizing based on energy and importance of the task, but I like to do something else.
There are some tasks that […]
So MacApper has posted five neat little tools for enhancing productivity on your mac. I can personally vouch for the awesomeness of iFlash, particularly if you’re interested in languages. Sidenote not so much though - it’s a nice program, but I’m more comfortable with Quicksilver’s append to text file function. But, different strokes for different […]
So I’ve been using my personal productivity scoring system (outlined here) for a week now, and I have some Reflections and Tweaks as a consequence.
It’s Actually Not That Hard
My first and most important point is that it’s surprisingly not as hard as I expected to keep the system running - reflecting on the day’s […]
So I’ve been using my personal productivity scoring system (outlined here) for a week now, and I have some Reflections and Tweaks as a consequence.
It’s Actually Not That Hard
My first and most important point is that it’s surprisingly not as hard as I expected to keep the system running - reflecting on the day’s […]
So I was reading Dave Seah’s blog the other day, and came upon his Printable CEO paper forms, and I love them - partly due to the design, but also because the point-based rewards on the main printable ceo really got my brain firing. There’s something about checking off boxes and filling things in […]