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[[image:close2005.jpg::left:0]]Hey all, since I’m leaving for my birthtown in a couple of hours to celebrate the new year, I will be offline shortly. I want to take this moment to wish every single one of you the very best for 2006. For me, in The Netherlands, it’s still 14,5 hours away. So I guess for…

[[image:mindmap.jpg::left:0]]I am always a bit cautious when I see a site like this: “E-Book: Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software”:http://www.mindmap-ebook.com/ (insert bold and pompous music here and start smoke effects) I do believe in Mindmaps. I don’t use them enough in both my personal and professional life. My best way to learn new…

I was wondering today why I didn’t get any comments for about two months already. Since I am not used to a lot of comments here, It didn’t occur to me that something might be wrong with the commentsystem itself. Well, it is…I just found out the commentsystem is broken. Don’t know why or how…

OK, so here’s the deal. You all know I use Backpack as a personal organiser. I wrote about it a “couple of weeks ago”:http://www.punkey.com/pivot/entry.php?id=6971 and according to the stats, the article is still very popular. So why don’t I recommend Backpack to all of you and get a little better of it myself? Yes, it’s…

[[popup:myinbox.jpg:(thumbnail)::1:center]] [[popup:myinbox.jpg:Click here::1:inline]] for the full picture. Aaaah…..this feels good….Everything is in my Next Actions list, delegated of deferred. And LOTS of it is just trashed!

Now this is a really funny post over at the “43Folder group”:http://groups.google.com/group/43Folders at Googlegroups. One reader was thinking how he could have some sort of reversable Inbox. That way, anything that gets in First, will get processed first. Michael Langford came with the following tip” Take 2 identical shoe boxes. Remove lid, discard box 1…

OK, I read the book, listened to the CD, bought the Outlook add-in (which mysteriously unregistered but that’s another story) and still it doesn’t click with me. To give an example. Every morning, I drive by a convention centre on the way to work. Yesterday I saw an announcement for an interesting conference I felt…

[[image:backpack_logo.jpg::left:0]]I am turning into a fan of 37signal’s product “Backpack”:http://backpackit.com/ as a tool for my personal management. It takes some time and some tweaking of the system, but we are getting there! What is Backpack? It is a web based project planning tool. No gant charts or any difficult projectmanagement-lingo, but plain ol’ lists! In…

I have been practicing Tai Chi (or T’ai chi or Taijiquan) for a couple of years now. For me, this martial art gives me relief, a moment of meditation and it is a pool of tranquility in a hectic lifestyle. As some of you may know, Tai Chi consists of a series of movements and…

Thanks to my reminder to check the productupdate-page from Netcentrics I just noticed that the “GTD Outlook addin”:http://www.punkey.com/pivot/entry.php?id=6952 will “get a hotfix update”:http://gtdsupport.netcentrics.com/learn/productupdates.php tomorrow for a really annoying problem: This hotfix will include the following fixes: * 1979 – [Other] Update Task Action Error * 1980 – [Action] Paths in File and Save for Reference…

Everyone already trying to get a ‘mind like water’ should recognize this quote: Just four weeks ago, my desk was a shrine to disorder. It was cluttered with letters, takeaway menus, MiniDiscs and dead batteries, while stacks of printouts lay everywhere. A skyscraper of stuff towered in my inbox, untouched for months. Now it is…

This morning, while going through some archived threads in the “43Folders group”:http://groups.google.com/group/43Folders, I stumbled on this amazing Outlook hack in “this thread”:http://groups.google.com/group/43Folders/browse_thread/thread/9e3a3a251f5d58b6/1db138ac0ae9bffb#1db138ac0ae9bffb, written by Simon. Don’t know if he has a blog or anything… “Ever get sent an e-mail with a blank or unintelligible subject line? Maybe you get CCed on a long ping pong…

Preface: This article was intended as a question for the “GTDgroup@Yahoo”:http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Getting_Things_Done/. But it turned out to be some sort of therapeutic writing session for my own self. I decided to share it with you. Maybe it can be of any help, maybe you have tips, pointers or similar experiences. Please, feel free to respond! This…

From the “43Folders-discussiongroup”:http://groups.googlegroups.com/group/43Folders: GTD is about habits, not software. Don’t worry about what software or outliner to use. Learn the habits first and keep it simple. How true is that! More and more I come to realize that the book is not like the Ten Commandments set in stone. What it teaches you is a…