The Cranking Widgets Blog

Distraction Hack: Protecting Me from Myself During the Weekly Review

If you’re like me, you probably don’t have many places where you can comfortably execute a weekly review. You probably have a desk that’s also likely to be holding the monitor on which you are reading this, or maybe you have a nice dining room table. As for me, it’s pretty much just [...]

A Very GTD Christmas

Written by Brett Kelly

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Took a little break from this budding blog over the past week or so, apologies for that.
Well, Christmas Day brought many smiles and laughs at my house, as well as some sick GTD gear (courtesy of my beautiful wife):

Moleskine Memo Pocket – The new face of my hipster PDA. It’s a little bulkier than [...]

Taming Your Inbox at Work

Written by Brett Kelly

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Let me start off by saying that my job (programmer) requires me to use email fairly regularly. It’s how I’m notified of bugs, feature requests, new projects, etc. So I really can’t ignore my email inbox completely, but I certainly do try. Here’s my approach:

GTD/Productivity All-Stars

Written by Brett Kelly

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Been pretty busy around my house lately, and I’ve got what will surely turn out to be a controversial post brewing. But, just to keep the content coming, I thought I’d share some of my favorite sites and blogs for productivity tips, tricks and inspiration:

43 Folders – The mack daddy to be sure. [...]

Keeping Instant Messaging Out of Your Way

Written by Brett Kelly

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The hardest habit for me to break (and something I’m still working on) when trying to streamline my work environment was that of checking my email every 5 minutes. It was something I’d done for so long, that I almost felt bad about it. But, after a few weeks of trying I’ve been [...]

My Current GTD Toolbox – Pictures

Written by Brett Kelly

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As a follow-up to the previous post (and per the request of some readers), I’ve got some pictures of the items described before:

My Current GTD Toolbox

Written by Brett Kelly

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Having “found the light’ only somewhat recently, I’m still working the kinks out of my trusted system. Having said that, I thought I’d share where I’m at so far. As I am not rich by any means, this list will be a good example of “budget GTD”. I give you the current [...]

Introduction

Written by Brett Kelly

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As if there weren’t enough productivity related blogs out there, welcome to the Cranking Widgets blog!
This blog will deal primarily with productivity, specifically the Getting Things Done methodology described in David Allen’s book of the same name.� The difference is, this blog will be more about cataloging my quest for the Mind Like Water, as [...]