Productivity

In a previous article I gave an introduction to GTD. In this post I’ll describe how I actually implemented that system using the fabulous DEVONthink. DEVONthink Pro First a word of introduction. If you don’t use DEVONthink yet, I recommend you to try out specific tools like iGTD or kgtd first. They may be better suited to implementing a basic GTD system. I went with DEVONthink because all my reference material is already in there and so putting in my actions and projects into the same system makes sense. Additionally I don’t mind some custom hacking and customization which definitely is necessary with DEVONthink. ...

Changes are that as a geek you have already heard of the book Getting Things Done by Dave Allen. It’s been a buzzword on the blogosphere for quite a while now. Recently I gave in and finally read the book - and I can heartily recommend it. Getting Things Done (or GTD for short) is set of basic principles about how to get work done more effectively. I’ll just describe the ones that I found most interesting. ...

About two weeks ago I did a slight adjustment to my mail reading approach. So far it has served me really well and thus I’d like to document it. The basic approach is that I want a clean inbox. My inbox it should only include known good mail. This is opposite to the traditional approach which is to have mails in the inbox which are not known to be bad. A slight but important difference. ...

A lot of people don’t know one of the nicest features about Firefox: quick search. In Firefox you can turn any bookmark into a search action. For that just create a new bookmark and add the following properties: Name: Whatever you like Location: URL of the search but with %s where the query is supposed to be Keyword: The shortcut you want for this search So for example in the screenshot the keyword is tel. Now you can enter “tel kay in basel” to find all Kay’s in Basel. A few shortcuts I have configures are. ...