So I’m running through Menu of the Day and am realizing how out-of-touch I am with some of my process. There are some interesting things I’m already noticing: Schedule Grid is a convenient note-taking area…needs to be bigger. And the damn grid dots need to be aligned better! Some useful emergent task notation happens here [...]
A while ago I wrote about the distraction of blogging and personal email. Based on this insight, I separated my workspaces into “separate but equal” area on different floors of the house: my blogging / personal email / instant messaging machine (a laptop) is now upstairs, and the graphics / development / production machine is [...]
Michael Ramm, of the great productivity blog Black Belt Productivity, tossed a question to me the other day about the challenge of creating an Information Technology Version of The Printable CEO. Right now, the standard “design business” version of The Printable CEO uses the following point list: When Something Is Worth Doing (for my New [...]
BMW has new television advertising, the first new spots from their new ad agency GSD&M. This article by Bob Garfield snipes it for being “terrible”. Interesting quote: Self-consciousness is not only a warning sign of amateurs at work, it’s also a very good indicator of nothing much to say. My first thought was uh-oh, since [...]
One of my relatives IM’d me earlier today to chat about productivity tools. By coincidence, I was about to IM her about a bunch of questions I had regarding research in motivation and learning; she happens to have a Ph.D. in those areas. So I asked, “If I wanted to get an overview of what [...]
UPDATE: Article significantly expanded after reading comments. I’ve never been to South-by-Southwest…I just heard about it it a couple of months ago while on the 9rules forums. No idea what to expect. But people are telling me I must go, so I’m thinking about it. I’m not very big on crowds, so the idea of [...]
I was looking around for a graphic of the aol running man icon when I came upon one of those pop-under ads for Smiley Central, which provides “thousands of free icons” for use in your online communications: IM, email, etc. The catch is that you install their toolbar, which “Isn’t spyware…trust us! By clicking this [...]
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Dani said
on May 23, 2013 Notebook Update: Getting Ready to Ship Please David! I'm from Canada and bought the download able version and it would cost me over $100... -
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on May 21, 2013 Shades of Structure Nancy: Just checked out GQueues, and it looks pretty slick! I am tempted to give it a try because...
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