Category Archives: Productivity

Tools, planners, tricks, and insights about what “being productive” actually means to me.

Design Candidate for 4×6″ StickyPad ETP

Posted Sun Dec.04.2011 under Productivity tagged

I spent a good chunk of Sunday redesigning the Emergent Task Planner to fit onto a 4×6 recipe card. I’m pretty pleased with the result. The picture above shows a stack of printed ETP designs. The bottom is the 8.5×11 … Continue reading →

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2012 Compact Calendar Updates

Posted Mon Nov.28.2011 under Productivity

I’ve just updated the USA Compact Calendar for 2012. It’s the same “Candy Bar of Time” you know and love, with a few new features: Start the calendar on any arbitrary date Month Separation Lines (thanks to Daniel Kinal for … Continue reading →

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New ETP Translations for Review

Posted Tue Nov.08.2011 under Productivity tagged

I’m trying to power through some dormant projects today. First up: Translations of the ETP. One of the difficult parts of this has been that English can be a surprisingly compact language, and volunteer translators have universally reported that it’s … Continue reading →

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Rebuilding Big Pictures

Posted Fri Nov.04.2011 under Metrics, Productivity

Lately I’ve been feeling that there too many things going on that I’m not tracking. I’d hoped to have my rudimentary task tracker application running by now, but after 21 days of coding I haven’t made as much progress as … Continue reading →

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Collecting Effort like Rainwater

Posted Wed Nov.02.2011 under Empire Building, Metrics, Productivity

SUMMARY: Although I didn’t know it when I started, the addition of sub-blogs to collect my thoughts into topical areas has helped me define a content generation system that is helping me bootstrap my way into other challenges. The big … Continue reading →

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