In the first of this series I had a look at one of the pioneers in the inbox management area - ClearContext. Then I turned my attention to one of the young guns - Xobni. Today I am delighted to be writing about Gist - where your inbox meets the web.
Is e-mail the opium of the masses? The psychological aspects of e-mail addiction.
Occasionally I stumble across a blog posting that sums up exactly what I think and how I feel about a subject that I am passionate about. I love such serendipity. Today is such a day.
An introduction to GTD (Getting Things Done)
Whether you are newly interested in personal productivity or have been around the traps for some time, you will come across the acronym GTD at some point. I remember reading about it in 2005 and then it started hitting my radar with increased frequency until I relented and investigated it. After reading about the concept on-line I went out and bought the book How to Get Things Done, by David Allen. I read the book over a weekend - it felt like a bit of a homecoming to me - and I adopted the approach called GTD and within weeks I was hooked. That was years ago, and I never looked back.
Is Information Overload a $650 Billion Drag on the Economy?
I have been reading a lot about information overload over the last couple of months. I posted about aspects of it in the past. A figure that is quoted from time to time is the cost to business resulting from the information overload suffered by their employees
Thoughts on Productivity 2.0
Don’t multi-task — multi-project and single-task. Produce less, not more. Forget about organization — use technology.
Remember the Milk’s Co-Founder on the Future of Task Management
Kevin Purdy over at Lifehacker.com recently published an interview with Emily Boyd. Emily is one of the co-founders of one of my favourite tools, Remember the Milk.
Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake
The WebWorkerDaily blog have posted a good article with four tips on how to reduce unnecessary e-mail intake.
Ten point manifesto on how to work better
This ten-point manifesto by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss on how to work better is worthy first entry to the category of personal productivity - and no technology in sight anywhere ;-)
Hot Off the Press: David Allen Launches New GTD Channel on YouTube
David in conjunction with the David Allen Company have just launched a new YouTube Channel dedicated to Getting Things Done