Archive: Productivity category
Reading Cory Doctorow's "Extreme Geek" article on Locus got me thinking about my own writing tools.
It's not about the numbers, I know, but I often feel like I want to do everything and be everything, swallowing the universe down whole so I can really truly live it.
A couple weeks ago I was reading Shannon Hale's blog, and she mentioned that she would be keynoting at the upcoming UVU Forum on Children's Literature.
I love index cards. For years I've been carrying them around in my front pocket to manage my to-do list, and recently I discovered a new use for them: writing novels.
It's been over a month now that I've been at Inbox Zero or very close to it, with a few days here and there where I haven't quite made it. And I've realized something.
I figured that it'd be a good time to do a quick review of my New Year's resolutions and see how I'm coming.
Television didn't used to bother me, but over the past few weeks it's become a set of long, chipped fingernails scraping across a chalkboard for me. There's something about it -- the mindlessness of most of it, perhaps? -- that grates on my nerves. It's becoming almost physical; ...
So, the left hem on my new dress pants decided to come down a few days ago. I guess it just couldn't hold on any longer, poor thing. Since the trailing hem was getting in the way of things, and since I'm not exactly adept with sewing needles, ...
Welcome to 2009. As has become a tradition (see 2006, 2007, and 2008), here's a short recap of 2008 along with how I did on my resolutions, followed by my 2009 resolutions.
In 2008, I wrote 368 posts on this blog (plus another dozen or two on ...
Today was like Christmas: Google just added todo lists to Gmail. I've been using Todoist for a while, but this looks like it may completely replace it.
Why is this awesome? For one thing, I'm almost always in Gmail, and having my todo items integrated into that workflow ...
