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Great Anti-Email post

Jeff Atwood, blogger and coder over at Coding Horror, one of the many blogs I read, had this post up sometime last year, and I thought it was such a good post that I’ve recommended it to a couple friends, but I realized I never actually blogged it.
Jeff discusses a similar topic to what I’ve discussed in [...]

¶ Posted 03 February 2010 † Joel § Mail § email § gmail ‡ Comments (0) °

Applying "Getting Things Done" to IPSs

Getting Things Done, or “GTD” for short, as I’ve blogged about before, several times, is a method of personal organization with a focus on accomplishing tasks. It’s great for applying to email (Inbox Zero) and it’s great for organization of your personal life (read some of the articles I’ve written before, particularly this one).
Some IDS [...]

¶ Posted 24 November 2009 † admin § Snort § Sourcefire § ids § security ‡ Comments (0) °

Rambling on Productivity and Email (Part Three)

The Calendar
The essential part of any productivity system is the calendar. Managing your time for your projects is probably one of the most vital portions to getting anything done. Without disruptions, without the cruft of the day, you can focus on your problem.
The essential problem with any environment is poorly set expectations. [...]

¶ Posted 20 August 2009 † Joel § Google § Microsoft § Outlook § apple § blogs § email § iCal § iPhone § websites ‡ Comments (0) °

Rambling on Productivity and Email (Part Two)

Managing To-Dos
As I promised a follow up post to my previous blog post here.
I stated, I try to manage things through Todo lists. When I read an email that I need to take action on, I make a ToDo out of it. Simple to complex, I make a ToDo out of it. [...]

¶ Posted 18 August 2009 † admin § Google § Linux § Microsoft § Outlook § San Francisco § apple § blogs § gmail § iPhone § iPod § office § organization § osx § productivity § review § websites § windows ‡ Comments (6) °

Rambling on Productivity and Email (Part One)

I know I have written many articles on productivity as it relates to Email and GTD before. Check out some past articles here, here, and here. In fact, that last article is my most hit and read article on my blog, in the (almost) five years I’ve been blogging.
Recently, with a lot of [...]

¶ Posted 17 August 2009 † admin § Google § apple § email § gmail § iPhone § productivity ‡ Comments (6) °

Let’s be productive by minimizing clutter Part deux

As usual, when you start dealing with one thing in your life, you tend to narrow in and focus on it. Which is great, however, what if you have several things to do in your life, as most of us do, how do we manage creativity and productivity?

I find myself always on the quest [...]

¶ Posted 27 January 2009 † admin § Google § apple § organization ‡ Comments (0) °

iPhone 3G review

Okay, so I have had my iPhone 3G with iPhone 2.0 software for a solid week now.

BLUF: I like it.

Now, I live in a 3G area. Which means I get the full capabilities of the speed, and it’s nice. Browsing the internet is faster, Mail is faster, everything is nice and quick. Even the [...]

¶ Posted 18 July 2008 † admin § Google § Mail § apple § facebook § hacking § iPhone § iPod § itunes § osx ‡ Comments (2) °

I ditched Mail Tags

I recently wrote a post on GTD with Mail.app and iCal and everything like that, and I mentioned that I use Mail Tags.

Well, I uninstalled it. I noticed that it really didn’t provide me any value added that I couldn’t do with some Smart Folders. So now I have two more Smart folders and no [...]

¶ Posted 28 June 2008 † admin § Mail § apple § email § osx ‡ Comments (5) °

GTD in Leopard, with Mail.app and iCal, redux, again

Okay, so, again, I’ve redone (refined) how I GTD with Mail.app, I’ve added the Inbox Zero method of Email processing from Merlin Mann. Check out 43folders.com for more info.

The above picture is my inbox. I’ve obviously removed a couple things from sight ;). I have two add on apps for Mail.app, one is MailTags, and [...]

¶ Posted 19 June 2008 † admin § Google § Mail § apple § blogs § email § osx § websites ‡ Comments (0) °

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