Quadrant IV

Productivity, or lack thereof

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Getting a better Outlook via gcal…

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Lifehacker has an amazing tip today; accessing Google’s Calendar via an Outlook Calendar page. 
I’ve just tried this and found that not only can I display my gcal in a new calendar in Outlook, I can use the same trick to enable my gmail in a similar way.  This is going to save screen real-estate and also [...]

That’s great, but how much?

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

I’m busy.  And impatient.  Consider it a symptom of a Gen-X, child of the 80’s type lifestyle, but I really don’t have time to waste.  So why is it that websites still think that when looking to purchase their software, I’ll want to read pages of text about how great it is and then spend [...]

Foxit. Could this be the answer to my prayers?

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

I recently fell in love with Foxit’s free pdf reader. It sits on my desktop, takes up very little room and starts almost immediately. Added to the package is the brilliantly handy pdf-download Firefox extension, and I am a happy little vegemite. (For my non-Australian friends, that is very happy indeed.)
Now based [...]

GTD with Vitalist

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

I haven’t been looking for GTD software recently.  I’ve finally managed to find a system that works for me, and what do you know?  It is a plain vanilla system utilising Outlook and Pocket Informant.  But regardless of how comfortable in my current system I am, I will still keenly check out anything shiny and [...]

GTD and MyLifeOrganized: My Search Continues…

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

When I first thought that perhaps 2007 was going to be the year that I got my collective GTD stuff together, I thought, as I normally do, that a computer program would suddenly make everything fall into place and my next actions and contexts would automatically make sense.
So I searched.  Google is indeed my friend, [...]

Clawing yourself back from the brink of disaster?

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

I’ve found some pretty weird things wandering through Feedmap and checking out my local area, but this actually has me very interested. SecretGeek.net, who just so happens to live and blog within a nice Sunday drive of myself, has just released v2 of TimeSnapper, a program that will sit in your memory taking screen [...]

The chasm between paper and online

Friday, August 25th, 2006

I have tried numerous online and offline-computer-based resources to keep my GTD system in line. I’ve had a giant Word doc, modified Excel to within an inch of its life, followed the teachings of those who preach .txt files and made myself known to many an online and usb-drive Wiki.
But still I fall off [...]

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