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When opening up Backpack this morning I found a pleasant surprise. Click on the image [[lightbox:request.jpg:::0]]  Yeey! I wonder what timeframe they mean by “soon” but it’s worth waiting I guess…Want to try out Backpack in the meantime? Please use this link. When you sign up for a paid plan, some referralcash is flowing my…

This is just brilliant. I am not christian or religious of any kind, but this is great… Our lifehacks, which art in contexts,Inbox zero be thy aim.Thy Kinkless done.Thy Mind Sweep fun, in @work as it is in @honeydo.Give us this day our next action.And forgive us our open loops, as we forgive those who…

[[image:111849236_8d79c14998_m.jpg::left:0]]Hey all. It has been a while already. What happened to good ol’ Frank and his quest to the ultimate GTD-black belt-mind like water-type way of life? Well…let’s say things have been quite hectic lately. To be fair, I totally fell off the GTD wagon. Yeah, it has been that time again. It’s not that…

[[image:ptext.jpg::left:0]]Don’t you hate that? You want to copy something from a webpage or a formatted document into another document. Biggest issue (on a Windows machine) is that all formatting comes with the copying. So you end up using a reroute like notepad where you temporarily paste the text, re-copy it and paste it in the…

[[image:label.jpg::left:0]]I use “Gmail”:http://www.gmail.com more and more as my primary emailapp for everything I do besides my work (like “a weblogmagazine”:http://www.aboutblank.nl , “weblogawards”:http://www.dutchbloggies.nl, “eventblogs”:http://www.eventblogs.nl). Since I mail a lot of requests that need some kind of answer or followup I made a label called @waiting in Gmail. This is where I put all my emails that…

I never heard of it but will definitely check it out. “Listible”:http://www.listible.com/ is a (beta) service where you can make your own Best-Of lists. I am very honoured to be in “the top 10 of Best GTD resources”:http://www.listible.com/list/the-best-gtd-resources on the web according to this list. I will try harder to get into the top 5…

Oh yeah, it took some time for me to really find a moment to dig in Pivot, my weblogsoftware, and find the error in the comments. It turns out there is a new notation in the version I am using for including comments. This is not documented very well so I had to turn to…

Oh yeah…my new gadget has arrived. The HP Ipaq 6515. With windows mobile 2003, outlook synching and integrated phone functionality. Some of the features can be interesting to get things done. This entry is written on my iPaq in a cafetaria for instance. I just found the Transcriber function to enter data. Looks promising and…

I’m sorry but I just found out the comments to this blog are broken again! And I don’t have the time to fix this right now since I am very busy with my work and the organisation the Dutch Weblogawards (talking about the use of GTD and Backpack….sjeeeszzz) If you have any comments on any…

Since my last article on Backpack and GTD I did some minor tweaking of my use with it which I would like to share with you. If you don’t know what Backpack is, I advice you to take a look at this article or at Backpack’s site. Ofcourse you can try it for free for…

A little message for all of you to let you know one of THE best newsreaders, Feeddemon, is in beta for version 2.0. Nick Bradbury has done a tremendous job again defining how a newsreader should look and work. Expect a review in the near future on this site

Ha! Check this study! They prove that if you wait long enough to buy a new computer, you will actually work faster on that new PC because of Moore’s Law. Or something like that. I’m a bit scientifically challenged…As they say themselves: “You could go to the beach for 2 years, then come back and…

Eric Sinclair attended a GTD Connect Circle in Chicago. These meetings are ongoing discussions furthering the work being done on the GTD seminars. Very interesting (when do they come to the Netherlands?) and Eric created a mindmap around these meetings. Very interesting topics and questions in this map. It is made in Freemind, the free…

I just implemented a new feature on the individual articlepages of this blog. When you visit this page via a searchengine, you will see the searchwords highlighted on the page. I hope you will find this helpfull. You can test this by going to this searchresult on “gtd backpack” and click the link to my…

[[image:29670213_d245dbffd4_m.thumb.jpg::left:0]]When dealing with your personal productivity in an electronic workspace, email is practically everywhere. For me, almost all communication goes through email. Actually, my Intray on my desk has been empty for a week now. I get very few mail on paper, magazines go straight into a “to read” basket and every other little scrap…

[[image:56021383_e1d12dcdce_m.jpg::center:0]] After writing for more than a year, I feel it’s time to let you know which articles are most popular here. Also for new readers (welcome!) to get a feel on what I write about and what goes on here. For this top 10 I use the statisticsapp Mint. If you have a weblog,…

Maybe not directly related to your personal productivity but I do feel this article touches some points you can incorporate in your own thinking about productivity. If you present in public every now and then, I can recommend the article “Presentation Zen” by former Apple employee Gerry Reynolds. He discusses the presentation style, slides and…