Archive: Productivity category
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 ...
I'm a project person. I love projects -- I love coming up with ideas, I love watching them gestate and emerge and grow up, and I love the thrill that comes from knowing I'll always have interesting things to work on. I think that's key: life is too ...
Earlier this afternoon Google announced SearchWiki, which is pretty darn cool:
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the ...
As I've been slowing getting back to inbox zero, a remembrance of things past has shimmered up to the surface: I love long letters. When I was younger -- in my heyday, if I can call it that :P -- I had tons of pen pals and would write ...
I love passion. Crackling with life is the way to live, sparks flying with every choice you make, moving forward with everything you've got. I keep forgetting that. I do the same old things over and over again, with habit providing my momentum instead of fire, and ...
Spent 45 minutes today responding to the last three weeks' worth of Facebook correspondence (wall posts and messages). It feels good to be caught up. Sure, I'm still woefully behind on responding to emails and blog comments, but at least I'm ahead of the game someplace. (Well, ...
Figured I may as well make this a trilogy. :) I've recently been realizing that the way I've been doing things hasn't always been the best way, and I'm finally to the point where I can change, for real. It's going to take some massive shifting around of ...
Blogging every day becomes harder when you set a self-imposed bedtime for yourself, I've found. :) Late nights and late mornings don't jive well with me -- I feel like I've wasted the whole day -- so I've decided to go to bed by 10:30pm from now on. ...
So, over the years I've created not a few personal websites. Here's the full list: Blank Slate (including its blog), this blog (Top of the Mountains), BenjaminCrowder.com, Bookland, Digital Bridge, Outside the Box, Footprints from the Past, and, most recently, ...
