Category: Ideas
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Steve's Best Practice for Technology Purchasing was developed during the Apple Newton years (1993-1997) as the editor and publisher of NewtNews – a weekly newsletter that covered the Newton marketplace and community. The basic premise is that Steve will never purchase the 1st generation of any technology product. After what…
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A recent question on the Getting Things Done (GTD) Virtual Study Group mailing list related to tracking travel related task & project items, reminded me that since this past summer I've been tracking geographical items of interest, reference, and someday/maybe items using Google Maps: The My Maps feature with Google…
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LOOKING FOR 2010 DATES & TIMES?!? If you are in San Diego County (La Mesa, Lemon Grove, San Diego, El Cajon, etc) then please feel personally invited to my church this Christmas 2009 season. The church is located at: Christ Lutheran Church Ministries, 7929 La Mesa Blvd, La Mesa, California…
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There was a recent tweet on Twitter #GTD from Emily Wilska (@OrganizedLifeSF) asking for a "status report" template that one might fill out after completing a David Allen GTD Weekly Review. While I don't have a status report template, I do have a personal Weekly Review dashboard hosted up on…
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I wasn’t able to attend this event but I thought it was important to capture and share. Kelly Forrister at the David Allen Company recently did an innovative event on Twitter (#GTD #Tweekly). It was an interactive Getting Things Done Weekly Review. Here is the sequence via 29 tweets that…
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One of my co-workers recently came up with this handy DIY Moleskine (or other journaling notebook) hack to let you easily put in and remove productivity templates from DIYPlanner.com. Find the template you want to put in your moleskine, print it out, cut to size, and then use 'repositionable' glue…
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Back in late 2007, Kevin Devin and I traded some emails and resources related to coffee storage recommendations and I summarized them in this blog post. Now a recent article was published in the San Diego Union-Tribune written by Jennifer Goodwin entitled "How do I brew a great cup of…
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I'm going on my fourth moleskine as my primary David Allen Getting Things Done (GTD) capture device. The first one covered 2005, for some reason 2006-2007 was captured in one, and last year (2008) went into a single moleskine. Here are some of the steps I've refined in setting up…
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I just finished a highly recommended podcast interview with Andrei Cherny over at the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago about his book "The Candy Bombers." It is a great intro and overview to the history of the Berlin Blockage, and the remarkable airlift that changed history. While listening to the…
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The GDGT Podcast #3 with Ryan Block and Peter Rojas finally got around to talking about "netbooks" after teasing us in Podcast #1 and Podcast #2. It was a great discussion, and they asked for recommendations from listeners on what they would recommend. My recommendation based on some recent research…
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