Mar - 29th
Playing with square format
Posted at 4:50 pm | Filed Under art, digital, organization / productivity, photography
I cropped some 4×6 photos in a square format, and it’s a lot of fun. Maybe I should buy another Diana or a Holga? Possibly Related Posts: Red Swing Handlebar ABCDEFG tiny little box II Chairs/Fields
Sep - 9th
How to spend quality time on the web?
Posted at 1:47 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
Here’s an interesting post from Merlin Mann, one of my favorite productivity gurus on how he’s going to improve his approach to the web: …To be honest, I don’t have a specific agenda for what I want to do all that differently, apart from what I’m already trying to do every day: identify and destroy [...]
Apr - 15th
10000 emails to 0 in 24 hours
Posted at 1:06 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
http://www.problogger.net/archives/ 2008/04/10/from-10000-to-0-emails-in-an-inbox-in-24-hours/ Over the weekend I decided to get serious about my email situation. I’d been sitting on an inbox with close to 10,000 items in it for months and was feeling more and more stressed by the day. I posted on Twitter that I needed to do something about it and then decided to [...]
Mar - 3rd
Techno Sabbath article from the NY Times
Posted at 8:05 am | Filed Under organization / productivity
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/fashion/02sabbath.html?&pagewanted=all I TOOK a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off. I was fully disconnected for 24 hours. The reason for this change was a natural and predictable back-breaking straw. Flying home from Europe a few months ago, I swiped a credit card through the [...]
Oct - 8th
Use Your Lookups! (BlackBerry Tip # 85)
Posted at 1:22 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
If you’re like me and countless others out there, you’ve been given a Blackberry SmartPhone and have BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) connected to your Exchange Server. With newer versions of BES, you can look up addresses in your Exchange Global Address list (GAL) – when you start typing in a name, click on the Lookup: [...]
Sep - 8th
The Laptop Herring
Posted at 6:32 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
I’m guilty of bringing my laptop to meetings – too often I’m brought into meetings to make sure my group doesn’t have some responsibility – unfortunately, the powers that be sometimes aren’t very good at knowing who does what. As a result, I often get stuck in meetings I have no input on. My compromise [...]
Aug - 27th
It’s time to stand up to e-mail
Posted at 7:54 am | Filed Under organization / productivity
Thanks to the avalanche of messages they receive every day, many professionals and office workers say they suffer from email overload. It doesn’t have to be that way. People feel “they are complete slaves to email,” says Julie Morgenstern, founder of Julie Morgenstern Enterprises, a New York-based time-management consulting firm. “They can’t control their knee-jerk [...]
Aug - 27th
My e-mail diet
Posted at 7:52 am | Filed Under organization / productivity
I’m finding it increasingly difficult to focus with the many demands for my attention. Work email, home email, IMs, voice mails from 3 separate places… it’s challenging to stay focused. With this in mind, I’m going on an email diet. I’m doing the following: Limiting mailing lists I forward mail from my domain to a [...]
Aug - 20th
When NOT to use email…
Posted at 8:47 am | Filed Under organization / productivity, technology
It would seem that for most people this is not intuitive. I’m still getting people asking me how they can reduce the inappropriate use of e-mail in their organizations. So this time around I’m going to be more explicit. Here are ten situations when you should not use e-mail, even though you may be tempted [...]
Aug - 13th
A 3-step cure for digital packrats
Posted at 9:52 am | Filed Under journal, organization / productivity
Every Monday is Productivity & Organization Day at Zen Habits. I have a confession to make: until recently, I was a digital packrat. While my outer life has become fairly simple, as I declutter my home and workspace, and my paper files have also become pretty simple, my digital life was a mess. I had [...]
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