Year: 2009
3 Years Of Organize IT (Or, Why We Should All Start Blogging)
I’m pleased to announce that this month marks the third birthday of Organize IT. Unfortunately there won’t be a party or cake but I’m still very proud of this achievement, and just a little bit amazed because, ignoring such things as holidays and the little matter of my wedding last year, this blog has been [...]
Productivity Tips #14: Clear The Decks
Clutter is a big problem for numerous reasons – it gets in the way, it makes it difficult to find stuff. In fact, I think that de-cluttering your surroundings is so important to your overall wellbeing I have an entire section called Clutter 101 dedicated to it. But what about the psychological effect? It’s great [...]
Smart Quotes: David Allen’s Top 10 GTD Tweets
Something a little different today. Recently David Allen (just some guy who developed this thing called GTD, heard of him?) passed the one million followers mark on Twitter. Maybe I’m biased because Twitter is the only social networking site I actually have any interest in (in contrast to all my friends Facebook luvin’) but I [...]
Common To-Do List Problems And How To Fix Them, Part 1
View original source The to-do list is perhaps one of the oldest staples for anybody trying to get organized and productive. Whether it’s on paper or as part of an app, it’s such a simple concept – write down a list of things you need to do and tick them off as you complete them. [...]
Ask The Readers: What GTD Apps Should I Try And Why?
In the process of writing Monday’s post on why I prefer the almighty pen and paper combination above all else, I ironically started to feel a slight twinge of curiosity about all those GTD apps out there. Most of the GTD related tweets on Twitter revolve around people’s experiments with different apps and I pretty [...]