Image via CrunchBase With Google Notebook shutting down, many people are searching for alternatives and Diigo is trying to fit itself into this space. Currently, Diigo is more focused on bookmarking and making notations around those links, but they are looking to become more flexible. Diigo’s Lists feature is the closest thing they have to [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Getting Things Done’ Category
In this day and age of Social Media and online communications, I find it quite disconcerting when someone feels the need to actually call me on a phone. It could just be my anti-social side, but I would much rather a text, email, or even a message on a micro-blogging service. How many times during [ Read More ]
This is quick video showing how I keep track of multiple micro-blogging services using Pidgin, Launchy, and Ping.fm. I basically send everything via Ping.fm and recieve everything via IM. One thing I forgot to mention here is that I can also “post” to Twitter from TwitterSpy (which I mentioned in a previous post). How I [ Read More ]
I recently noticed a shared item from Google Reader in my FriendFeed that I hoped would solve a major issue I’ve had with keeping up with things. I have Remember The Milk for storing my To Do items and Google Calendar for keeping track of dated events. I even have a slick method for capturing [ Read More ]
In my post, Remember The Milk: Posting Directly from Your Desktop, we covered how to add items to Remember The Milk using the popular desktop launcher Launchy. This provides us with a lightning-quick way to capture tasks and ideas without interrupting whatever we may currently be working on. With a simple tweak, we can actually [ Read More ]
FriendFeed is becoming more and more central to my online activity. I feel I have only scratched the surface of what can be accomplished with it. Even at this early stage, I know that I have accelerated the development of relationships, and the growth of my personal knowledge just by being a regular FriendFeeder. A [ Read More ]
I remember when I first started trying to get organized years ago. I started off with a Handspring Visor and then moved up to a Palm III. I also remember struggling with prioritizing my tasks. Should I clean the bathroom first, or shave the dog? Which was more important? I think I spent more time [ Read More ]
You To Do list may be a lot more powerful than you think. Here are a few ideas that may get your imagination working as to how you can harness the full power of one of the most basic organizational tools. Feel free to share any ideas you have in the comments section. Borrowing/Lending Tracking [ Read More ]
In a recent post, we talked about 6 Ways to Add A Task to Remember The Milk. While the methods discussed were varied and useful, I was not satisfied with any of them. This post will show you another quick method to handle this. I have very simple criteria for being able to add tasks [ Read More ]
It’s amazing how the little things make a difference. Especially when it comes to your To-Do list. I found that I had a few items on my list that just kept getting pushed back. It’s not as if they were impossible feats or anything, but I couldn’t really put my finger on why they wouldn’t [ Read More ]
One important thing that will ultimately hold your GTD system together and make it work for you has to be accessibility. In the first and second installment of this series, we discussed how to set up Remember The Milk to handle most of your GTD needs. We also talked about using SMS to access RTM. [ Read More ]
In the first part of my Super-Charge Remember The Milk series, we discussed a method of organizing and processing tasks based on a simple system using Tags and Smart Lists. After reading the post, my mother pointed out two important facts: I spelled “Super-Charge” wrong She had no clue WTF I was talking about and [ Read More ]
As far as Getting Things Done goes, Remember The Milk is the center of my solar system. At first glance, it’s just a simple TODO list, but it has some serious power under the hood. Using these features, I’m going to show you how to handle most of your GTD needs in one place. This [ Read More ]
You probably think this article is about how much time I waste on Twitter. You probably think I’m going to lament about the long hours I spend Tweeting my Tweeps from Twhirl about how we gonna have a Tweetup or whatever. You got me all wrong. You see, I recently learned all about Getting Things [ Read More ]
