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OK, no means to diss anyone at the excellent Lifehacker crew (especially Gina!) but I tried the Quicklogger script which was featured last week and there is a very very obvious reason why it just doesn’t work for me. First a little introduction in what we’re talking about. Quicklogger is a VB script which gives…

Yeah, I’m almost back. But this is news I really have to share. I just got word through an email from a dutch weblog that Backpack has (finally) integrated a calendar application in their online organizer. Now, I can’t find anything on their own website but there is a special page with some demo-movies. I…

This afternoon I noticed a very interesting post on one of the developers blog from Adobe. They made a webbased tool called NoteTag, which gives you a flash-based environment to take notes. But that’s not all. The notes are not stored in some proprietary format like EverNote, but you can publish them directly to Blogger…

I found a nice little easteregg which makes using Google Notebook even easier. Well…I found an article describing the easteregg. After enabling it you will see a little “note this +” sign next to your selected text. This makes it really easy to notate nice quotes, pieces of articles and other online stuff. Check it…

You Americans…you are soooo lucky that The Dave lives right around the corner and he makes his Roadmap tour across your country. We here in Europe are stuck with the GTD Fast CD’s and blogs about how cool it is to attend a GTD seminar. Well, that got me thinking. Since David Allen is in…

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It is sunday afternoon right now. And I feel more relaxed than any other sunday afternoon for the past couple of months. Why is that? Because I had not only one, but two Weekly Reviews in a row! And it felt great doing them! Let me explain in this post what I…

OpenSubject is an public project to make email correspondence more efficient through the use of simple 3 letter codes. Instead of using your project name as a subject for every message you sent you enter a code which says something about the contents or tha message and the desired action to be taken by the…

The last couple of weeks have been a rollercoaster ride. Again. It just doesn’t seem to stop and yeah, the first I seem to do is fall back in old habits. I forget I have a Next action list. I haven’t looked in it for a couple of weeks but I just look at the…

I would like to welcome the people of Blackbeltproductivity.net in the GTD-blogspace! Started yesterday and I look forward in what they have to offer on insights, new tips and tricks on implementing GTD.

This is quite a surprise to me. During my day off because of Easter, I cleaned my offline magazine-stack by basically throwing them all away. I was planning on doing the same with my collection of PDF’s on my laptop. But I thought “Well…There are some interesting ones but I need a system to find…

Paasochtend. De family ligt nog te slapen en ik zit lekker rustig op de bank met Stevie Ray Vaughan, Live at the El Mocambo op DVD. Zo’n typisch zondagochtendje. Lekker man. Maar het is niet dat we deze paasdagen geheel op de reet gaan doorbrengen. Neuh neuh neuh… Vorige week hebben we een paar potten…

I got a comment from John Ratcliffe-Lee on my article on GTD and Backpack. He wrote an excellent follow-upnews/2006/04/13/165058-campfire-gtd where he describes how he uses the new 37Signal product Campfire to complement his GTD-ness in Backpack/Basecamp. I don’t quite understand yet what the advantage is, but perhaps that will come in the following days. What…

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…

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…

I use Gmail more and more as my primary emailapp for everything I do besides my work (like a weblogmagazine , weblogawards, eventblogs. 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 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 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…

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…

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…

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, I…

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…