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Not much to say about this, except that it’s totally awesome and I’ll be doing this in the very near future. Just gonna need some bagels…

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(This post is part of a series called The Mind of GTD where I examine the thought processes and attitudes that make up a “mind like water”) In the previous post, I talked about the notion of “reflexive capture”, or the training of one’s brain to automatically record (in some fashion) anything that needs recording, [...]

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(This post is part of a series called The Mind of GTD where I examine the thought processes and attitudes that make up a “mind like water”) One of the most basic tenets of GTD is the requirement that “stuff” be out of your head and recorded somewhere you’ll look later (and regularly). Being able [...]

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Being the egomaniac that I am, in a previous post I politely informed you that there are at least 5 products intended to help care for a newborn that I consider to be superfluous. In the interest of fairness (and symmetry, I suppose), I thought I’d run down the 5 things that I consider to [...]

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Part of the freak-out period a couple (particularly the breadwinner, statistically the father) goes through when they discover they’re going to have a baby is all the crap they’re going to need to buy. You’ll need food, clothes, diapers, furniture, etc. and before you know it, you’re giving yourself an ulcer thinking about how much [...]

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As I’ve said in the past, I was an analog GTDer (but have since converted to a kick-ass digital solution). I used paper products for absolutely every aspect of GTD when I started and found the experience to be extremely valuable. So much so, that I’m going to tell you now why every single person [...]

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(Update: WinStikker is now Open Source!) Any more of this stuff and people are going to start to wonder if I work for Values of n (makers of Stikkit – and no, I don’t work for them – yet . After writing the python script described (badly) in the previous post, I was somewhat inspired [...]

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By now, my Stikkit fanboy status is hardly a secret. And while there have been a couple of other posts around here dealing with some theoretical Stikkit coolness, I figured it was time to give something a little more concrete to my Stikkit-loving brethren. Oh, and I also thought it a good opportunity to put [...]

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Most folks have downed their cup of the Twitter Kool-Aid (myself included). If you haven’t heard of Twitter, then we must be using different internets on different planets. Here’s a 2 sentence introduction: Send a little status message about where you are or what you’re doing (via web interface, IM or cell phone) to Twitter, [...]

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Classic productivity blog LifeClever has posted a collection of interviews with The David, himself. Several audio and many texts, this is one resource we should all be bookmarking. I haven’t read all of them, but I have to say that the “Productive Talk” series he did with Merlin Mann is one of my favorites – [...]

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