Category: Productivity

Thunderbird and Lightning

It's been a while since I've looked at the state of calendaring with Mozilla Thunderbird (e.g.: Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird, and Lightning). I was hoping that they had made amazing strides in that time. Well they've made a lot of...

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My funky Pythony Unix GtD system

Back in December, I talked about PyGTD and mentioned that I'd been messing around with my own homebrew system. To be honest, I haven't been using it regularly lately (self-flagellation), but a few people have asked about it, so I...

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PyGTD

PyGTD, by Keith Martin, is an interesting little Python command-line program for GTD. You input your projects, tasks, and contexts into some specially formatted files and run this program and it spits out a todo.txt file which is...

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GtD with Yahoo!

Chris Wright has a two-part series on Getting Things Done (GtD) with Yahoo! tools, such as Yahoo! Calendar Part 1 Part 2...

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Managing waiting for/delegated emails with procmail

I have a new approach for streamlining the management of things that I'm waiting on something from someone. My particular implementation uses procmail, but the approach could easily be adopted to other types of mail systems -...

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Donald Knuth doesn’t have email

I just noticed that Donald Knuth doesn't have email. For this Internet-addicted guy, that sounds really awful and yet positively delicious at the same time. Not having to deal with email - that would be a wonderful thing. Right...

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The effect of stress on the brain

Fascinating stuff on how stress can affect the brain. The most interesting part for me: Gary Evans and environmental psychologists at Cornell found that low-level noise in open-style offices seems to result in higher levels of...