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…
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Mindmapping eBook?
I am always a bit cautious when I see a site like this: E-Book: Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software (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…
Share in my joy!
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!
Backpack and GTD
I am turning into a fan of 37signal’s product Backpack 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…
The connection between GTD and Tai Chi
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…
Simple Outlook hack may save your day in the future
This morning, while going through some archived threads in the 43Folders group, I stumbled on this amazing Outlook hack in this thread, 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…
The difference between GTD at home and at work
Preface: This article was intended as a question for the GTDgroup@Yahoo. 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…
8 Steps to a succesfull and empty Inbox after your vacation
I enjoyed a two-week vacation. This morning, back at work, I had a full Inbox waiting for me. 912 new emails to be exact. And I left with an empty Inbox. I had a meeting outside the office today so I could only work for 3-4 hours on my Inbox today. But I have it…
Quote on what GTD “is”
From the 43Folders-discussiongroup: 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…
DIY personal planner with Pocketmod
If there is one thing I absolutely admire in all the GTD-blogs, wiki’s, mailinglists and discussiongroups, it is the absolute sense of DIY to make your own life as easy as possible. Reading Getting Things Done was a (sort of) revelation for me to start with. When I read some of the hacks on 43Folders.com…
Online GTD Discussiongroups, a comparison
Since GTD is considered the geeks way to personal productivity, it is common sense the system and it’s details are discussed on online mailinglists. Since I am a member of two of the large mailinglists, 43Folders and GTD@Yahoo (and still lurking the lists), I feel it’s nice to discuss a bit the similarities and differences…
The adventures of Action Item
An hilarious parody on meetings most of us once have visited. Everybody is talking is this weird projectmanagement-stylee mumbo jumbo and no action is really taken. I can give you some true examples with my clients, but I will restrain myself 🙂 Take a look at this excellent comic and order the poster. Rumour has…
Work in progress on this site
I would like to tell you all very briefly some of the plans I have on this site. Since it’s almost a year old and I haven’t paid much attention to it visually, I have some plans to redesign the whole blog. But wait! There’s more! Redesign One thing I would like to do is…
MyTicklerFile.com…What’s the use?
MyTicklerfile.com is a new webbased tool for creating appointments and recurring tasks. As they say for themselves it can be used to implement Getting Things Done in your own way. But I have my doubts. First off, thanks to the buzzword-friendly Web 2.0 features of Ajax and tags it has some real desktop-like, rich experience…
The “new gadget” itch starts again…
Oh man….just when I was trying to get comfortable with all the software I have, a new version of Omea Pro drops in my Inbox. I once tried Omea Pro in beta and was very impressed by its features. It is simply described as a dashboard for your information from Outlook, browser, filesystem and webfeeds.…
Anything that’s a “problem” is a “project”
The GTD Road Map is full on. Already there are some reviews popping up like on Buzz Bruggeman's site and this one. There is also a presentation in slides and audio. Looks like some nice readingmaterial for a couple of moonlight-hours….Anyone else has some interesting reviews from the Roadmaps?
TiddlyPedia?
From the install-instructions: “To use the TiddlyPedia skin on your own TiddlyWiki, copy the contents of TiddlyPediaPackage tiddler and tag it as ‘systemConfig.’ ” C’mon….can’t we think of a less laughable name than TiddlyWiki and TiddlyPedia? I think it’s stupid. On the other hand, I also think it’s time for a personal tool-stop and start…
Problem with webfeed?
Hmmm..it seems there is a slight problem with my Feedburner-based webfeed (forget that RSS-webfeed debate and it doesn’t show up properly. I don’t have a solution right now but will look into it on a later time this weekend.
Rule of thumb to put something in a list?
I was working through my Inbox this morning and had a few mails I had to delegate to someone else. Short questions, little assignments. But I need an answer from the receiving party to move the project forward. Not now, but whenever possible. I was thinking and in doubt. I use the GTD Outlook plugin…
A time to consolidate
The past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about my implementation of GTD in both personal and professional life. And I have decided that it’s time to really stop tinkering and tweaking the system and just leave it for a while. As a lot of GTD-devotees tend to do, I also kept tweaking my work…
10 Steps To Better Meetings
To-Done has some great tips and steps on holding better meetings. Not just by content, but also by context. For instance: Start on time. Sounds easy? You should know how many time I’ve wasted waiting on people “just having one more smoke”, “just finishing this phonecall” or any other lame excuse to show up late.…
Sunday morning teanotes
Het is weer zondag! Als je dit op zondagochtend leest zal ik waarschijnlijk nog op 1 oor liggen. Gisteren hebben we een feestje gevierd vanwege de aanstaande bruiloft van Opa Reet. En dat gaat natuurlijk altijd gepaard met fikse hoeveelheden drank. Daarna zijn we nog afgezakt naar een feestje van een gezamenlijke vriendin dus je…
White Stripes in Nederland
31 oktober, Bijlmer Bierhut. Voorverkoop is nog niet begonnen. Dus hou het in de gaten. Als je er heen zou willen dus he…anders kun je dit vergeten
Windows Vista Beta 1 Screenshots
Begint wel erg op Tiger OSX van Mac te lijken, dat nieuwe Windows Vista
The revolution’s on a podcast
I heard it on a podcast…rockin’ fuckin’ radio You want it, you got it…just download it and pod it On a podcast…no one’s gonna stop ya Download that podcastsong, een lekker amerikaanse-rock-stylee bierdrink-tune. Goed spul en waarschijnlijk binnen een week op werkelijk ELKE podcast te vinden!
