Category Archives: GTD

RTM and Appigo go at it over RTM API access

Well well.  It would appear that the folks at Remember the Milk and Appigo are in a bit of a dust-up over the Appigo iPhone/iPad app Todo. Just a quick piece of information to make the story clear: the Todo … Continue reading

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Bye Bye Remember The Milk…

Today, after being a Remember the Milk customer for years, I gave up on them and closed my account.   I paid up for a year of Toodledo Pro.  I really loved RTM at one point.  The user interface was … Continue reading

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JasperReports underlining all text in HTML reports in Internet Explorer?

Last week I ran into an odd situation with our HTML output from JasperReports in Internet Explorer 7.  All text, link or otherwise,  was being underlined and I’m not really sure of the root cause other than it would appear … Continue reading

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The death of lifehacking

Maybe the title is exaggerating things just a bit but the idea is floating out there that the Golden Era of lifehacks is in the past and we are left with nothing more than productivity porn. And who is out … Continue reading

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The “simple” task of concentrating

I’m pretty scatter-brained these days.  I think years and years of “multi-tasking” hasn’t done a whole lot for my powers of concentration.  Today I decided while eating lunch to only eat lunch…live in the moment as it were.  No books.  … Continue reading

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Remember the Milk customer service? Yeah right.

I’m really frustrated by an ongoing issue with iCalendar feeds coming from my lists at Remember the Milk being consumed improperly by Google Calendar.  And the thing that is most frustrating?  They don’t seem to give a damn that the … Continue reading

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Google Calendar and external iCal feeds – DOA

I’ve been mucking around with adding my Remember the Milk lists as iCal event feeds to my Google Calendar account.  The idea of having tasks with due dates show up like “local” GCal events is great but it doesn’t work … Continue reading

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Corporate computer policies and GTD

What do you do when you can no longer use your computer platform of choice at work even when you’re more productive with it and are used to the tools available for it which are generally superior to the offerings … Continue reading

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Perhaps the ultimate GTD tool?

The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen.

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Dashing to beat procrastination – trying out (10+2)*5

Yeah…(10+2)*5. I0 minutes of work, 2 minutes of break repeated for 5 cycles.  This is Merlin Mann’s system to beat procrastination which he first wrote about back in 2005.  I had read about this ages ago on 43 Folders (the … Continue reading

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