GMail GTD – a practical method for harnessing your inbox overload stress

GMail GTD – a practical method for harnessing your inbox overload stress

The principles of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system have been a huge help for me in, would you believe it, getting things done. A friend recently asked me to describe how I work GTD principles within Google’s GMail to maintain control of the dreaded email inbox. Here is an outline of my personal [...]


Things GTD reaches version 1.0

Things GTD reaches version 1.0

Ever in search of the perfect GTD (Getting Things Done) solution, I have used pretty much everything that is available and landed firmly with Cultured Code’s Things. Today came the very pleasing announcement it will be released as Version 1.0 next week. Beyond the basic principles, GTD can be administered to the chronically overwhelmed in [...]


Project overload

Project overload

No, it’s not a code-name for the next TableRappers book, but the arrival of a critical decision point. In typically ADD-brain type activity, I have once again taken on too much in too short a time. It’s a viscious circle to which, I suspect, many readers of this blog can relate. Ideas, and potential projects [...]


Chapter 1 is in the bag

Chapter 1 is in the bag

I am delighted to announce that Chapter 1 of Persistent Spirit is in the bag and all ready for release on Sunday January 6.

The ongoing schedule is to release a new chapter early each Sunday evening (UK time) so that you can partly fill that pre-Monday morning few hours at the end of the weekend.

Chapter 1 brings the story several years after the Prelude, and you get to meet a few of the more important characters you will be accompanying on their adventures. I want to tell you more about the episode, but that would spoil everything!

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Tweaking WordPress – excluding categories from the front page

Tweaking WordPress – excluding categories from the front page

Why would you want to exclude posts of a particular category from your blog’s home page? I have just set up my del.icio.us library account to automatically post my latest del.icio.us links to this blog. This gives me a place to find the most recent additions, and place for you to be nosey about what [...]