Archive: Productivity category
On Thursday I had an early morning meeting, so I got up at 5:30. The walk to school was so lovely, with the fresh morning air and the birds chirping in concert, that I've woken up at 5:30 yesterday and today as well, so that I could go to ...
It'd be nice to have all my old e-mail in Gmail. So I searched for "gmail upload" and found GML, which does just that: sends your old mail to your Gmail account. The only problem is that it doesn't work on this computer. I just get ...
This morning I decided to put all my to-do items (which have been scattered on eight index cards, my notebook, and a plethora of post-its on my desk at home) into my Backpack. Since free accounts only come with five pages (but I think I'll upgrade soon), I ...
Found an interesting article on A List Apart, Adam Greenfield's Everyware:
In everyware, the garment, the room and the street become sites of processing and mediation. Household objects from shower stalls to coffee pots are reimagined as places where facts about the world can be gathered, considered, and acted ...
Google's done it again. The Google Calendar beta is out, and it's nice. I've only spent a few minutes playing around with it but I'm very impressed. In the past, I've been mostly a paper-planner ...
I've started reading through personalfinance.byu.edu in an attempt to get my finances in order again, and I came across this quote:
We see the world and the people in it differently, because, as C.S. Lewis observed, it is by the light and illumination of the gospel that we see everything ...
Being digitally homeless has really started to change the way I do things. Suddenly onlineness becomes key. In the past, I've been 100% committed to having my e-mail locally stored on my laptop (in mbox format), using Mutt (and then Mail.app when I switched to Mac) to manage ...
In this sine-laptop state I've been in since Thursday, I've found myself using writeboards to take notes and jot down ideas and drafts (mostly for pieces I'm writing). It's a nice way to have all that stuff instantly available from whichever computer I sit down at, and I ...
Well, my laptop is still pretty much dead. I'm in one of the Mac labs on campus, with my laptop booted in target disk mode (which makes it a portable hard drive, basically) and plugged into an iMac via Firewire. I'm backing everything up onto DVD, and it's ...
I'm a fourth of the way through Getting Things Done, and it's good stuff. For the past five or six years (perhaps longer -- I can't really remember) I've carried a 3x5" notebook around with me everywhere I go, to jot down ideas and notes and things to write ...
