June 29th, 2008
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 abound, and [...]
November 20th, 2007
Omni are the developers of the renowned OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, and the less well known but equally superb OmniPlan (and there are other strings to their illustrious bow). Their latest foray is into the trendy world of Getting Things Done (GTD), but having spent a little time with it, it seems they may have failed to [...]
June 28th, 2007
How things change across a year…
On the left is a screengrab of my iCal for the last week in June 2006. On the right one from the last week in June 2007 - and none of that is personal / family / non-work (in whatever respect) related.
Still, looks like tomorrow morning is going to be [...]
May 11th, 2007
I have a new productivity tool, it’s called the Mail.app Quit button.
Not only is email the most intrusive distractor of focused task completion, but it’s a grand excuse to choose not to focus. Control over tasks is about just that: control. A permanently open email client is anything but control. Emails pop in at any [...]
March 10th, 2007
One of the big problems in working an effective GTD system is making everything play nice together - connecting all those micro systems which form part of the ideal GTD solution.
As well as recording what I need to do, I have lately taken to recording what I’ve done. I keep a basic journal (in a [...]
January 28th, 2007
The key to making GTD (Get Things Done) work is to keep it simple. The biggest downfall, particularly for anyone with ADD, is gettin more wrapped up in the process of GTD, than actually using to solve the day-to-day balancing of work, personal, and other miscellaneous tasks.
For a few months now I have solved my [...]
September 9th, 2006
Code Igniter has proved to be a valuable tool in helping to get some of my personal code projects off the ground. Here are the three which are currently in development.
WriteRelief (http://writerelief.co.uk)
WriteRelief is designed to help freelance writers track their submissions to magazines, publications and publishers. The database enables creation of projects from which submissions [...]
July 17th, 2006
If everyone used accurate and relevant email subjects all would be well, but life is never that good.Tagging an items, be it an email, a file, a folder, with metadata offers a world of opportunity to organise, categorise and find what you want, when you want it - and filter out all the other irrelevant stuff. In OSX you can easily do this in the Finder by creating Spotlight comment tags (Quicksilver - yes, it’s way more than a launcher - can help you organise and apply these) or using a application such as SpotMeta.Email, however, relise on creating complex sorting and filtering rules and to group information together effectively, the moving of messages between different mailboxes - even OSX Mail’s Smart Mailboxes are not quite enough on their own.