Archive for October, 2005

Make your own Fil-o-fax!

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Got an old Fil-o-Dax or Day-Timer that you don’t use? Like the idea, but never found the right way to make use of one?

Worry no more – D*I*Y Planner has a range of free PDF templates so you can create your own planner inserts, sized to fit filofaxes, daytimers, bigger, smaller… there’s even a Hipster [...]

The Discover system: a double-entry tickler file

Friday, October 21st, 2005

I’ve always struggled with to-do lists. I’m great at writing them, laying them out, prettying them up.

I’m really, really bad at actually crossing anything off them.

This is for a number of reasons to do with my psychology and personal issues that we don’t need to go into here, but what it boils down to is: [...]

Life Hacking: give it a name and it becomes a movement.

Monday, October 17th, 2005

I’ve been looking into GTD and other related productivity theories of late; they appeal to the crunchy-process-oriented geek in me. There’s been a lot of GTD-related talk in the sections of the blogosphere I find most appealing, too, which is where I stumbled across it in the first place.

I’m not entirely sure, yet, what links [...]

I love my aggregator more than my browser.

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

One thing I’m finding really annoying is the existence of sites with no RSS feeds. On personal and/or largely static sites, that’s forgiveable, but on sites where the bulk of information is dynamic or frequently updated? Especially if the site is blog-esque? It’s seriously irritating. Ignoring RSS feeds is ridiculously antiquated and is going to [...]