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The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow - Tantek
"We are living in a world of accelerating addictiveness and increasingly I think the only way (likely lonely, squirming, and eccentric as Paul alludes) we'll "get things done" is the continuous directed practice and improvement of willpower, productivity, flow, and exercising thereof."
gtd  productivity  willpower  tantek  from instapaper
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
iDoneThis
"Reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, get a digest with what everyone has done."
email  calendar  analysis  productivity  teams 
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
Ramblings in Valve Time | Valve
"The idea that a 10-person company of 20-somethings in Mesquite, Texas, could get its software on more computers than the largest software company in the world told him that something fundamental had changed about the nature of productivity [...] The success of Doom made it obvious that this was no longer the case. There was now little value in doing the same thing even twice; almost all the value was in performing a valuable creative act for the first time."
doom  valve  microsoft  productivity  creativity  from instapaper
6 weeks ago by ohskylab
Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards
learning  memory  productivity 
10 weeks ago by ohskylab
How to Remember Everything, Ever and Forever — Write More Tests
"By condensing the pieces of information you need or want to know in to a piece of software that’s optimizing your learning experience, you can learn more, remember it longer, and remove much of the tedium."
learning  memory  productivity 
10 weeks ago by ohskylab
Witch · Many Tricks
Aha, a worthwhile window switcher.
mac  osx  tools  productivity 
november 2011 by ohskylab
Asana - Task Management for Teams
collaboration  productivity  projectmanagement 
november 2011 by ohskylab
how to put a virtual machine launcher icon in the dock? (View topic) • virtualbox.org
Trying to find a nice, quick way to launch VirtualBox images without having to launch VirtualBox itself. "vboxmanage startvm NAMEOFYOURVIRTUALMACHINE"
virtualbox  shortcuts  productivity 
september 2011 by ohskylab
Project Management Software, CRM, Sales, Intranet - thousands of apps - Podio
tools  productivity  projectmanagement  from delicious
june 2011 by ohskylab
Wunderlist | Task Management At Its Best
A potential replacement for Things.
productivity  tools  gtd  todo  from delicious
march 2011 by ohskylab
Hacker News | Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
Lots of discussions re. ratios.
breaks  lifehacks  productivity  scheduling  timers  work  pomodoro 
november 2010 by ohskylab
The Quantified Self
"Build your own multi-purpose mobile self-tracking application."
data  productivity  tools  tracking  lifehacks  health  metrics 
september 2010 by ohskylab
Readability :: Add-ons for Firefox
Ooh, shortcut key! Worth trying just for that.
reading  readability  productivity  firefox  extensions  tools 
september 2010 by ohskylab
Rands In Repose: How to Run a Meeting
"There are two useful types of meetings: alignment and creation. Briefly, alignment meetings are tactical communication exchanges that rarely dive into the strategic. These are fine meetings that have a weekly cadence, and while there are lots of ways to screw up these meetings, their tactical repetition often keeps them on the rails. Creation meetings — diving into solving a hard problem — involve, well, more creativity. Each hard problem requires a unique solution, and finding that solution is where creation meetings can go bad."
communication  business  meetings  productivity  rands  work  management 
august 2010 by ohskylab
Discipline: Be The Machine « yield thought
Rawr! Be the machine! Another version of "stop faffing about and just get on with it".
motivation  productivity  gtd  psychology 
august 2010 by ohskylab
How to Lose Time and Money
"I've definitely had days when I might as well have sat in front of a TV all day—days at the end of which, if I asked myself what I got done that day, the answer would have been: basically, nothing. I feel bad after these days too, but nothing like as bad as I'd feel if I spent the whole day on the sofa watching TV. If I spent a whole day watching TV I'd feel like I was descending into perdition. But the same alarms don't go off on the days when I get nothing done, because I'm doing stuff that seems, superficially, like real work. Dealing with email, for example. You do it sitting at a desk. It's not fun. So it must be work."
focus  gtd  lifehacks  paulgraham  productivity  work 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Divvy · Window management at its finest.
"Allows you to quickly and efficiently "divvy up" your screen into exact portions."
mac  osx  productivity  obsessive  tools  windows  screen  via:thegingerbloke 
june 2010 by ohskylab
Pivotal Tracker - Free Lightweight Agile Project Management & Team Collaboration, from Pivotal Labs
"Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog."
agile  bugtracking  collaboration  development  xp  tools  projectmanagement  productivity 
april 2010 by ohskylab
Using Bash's History Effectively
bash  macosx  linux  productivity  shell  sysadmin  history 
march 2010 by ohskylab
Meet With Approval
"Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone and keep track of who is coming"
tools  productivity  collaboration  meetings  scheduling 
february 2010 by ohskylab
Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money | Software by Rob
More money isn't one of them.
development  productivity  programming  management  inspiration  hiring  motivation  happiness 
february 2010 by ohskylab
Irradiated Software - SizeUp
"Allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys)."
tools  mac  osx  productivity  windows  screen  gui  via:torrez 
february 2010 by ohskylab
Alex Payne — Don't Be A Hero
"Heroes are damaging to a team because they become a crutch. As soon as you have someone who’s always willing to work at all hours, the motivation from the rest of the team to produce reliable, trouble-free software drops. The hero is a human patch."
productivity  business  programming  career  projectmanagement  heroes  antipatterns 
january 2010 by ohskylab
Redmine - Overview - Redmine
A RoR Trac clone.
web  tools  development  rubyonrails  productivity 
january 2010 by ohskylab
Continuous Integration
"A quick [!] overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage."
tools  development  software  productivity  programming  agile  continuousintegration  automation  cruisecontrol  tdd  martinfowler 
december 2009 by ohskylab
Technical Debt - 10x Software Development
"The reason most often cited by technical staff for avoiding debt altogether is the challenge of communicating the existence of technical debt to business staff and the challenge of helping business staff remember the implications of the technical debt that has previously been incurred. Everyone agrees that it's a good idea to incur debt late in a release cycle, but business staff can sometimes resist accounting for the time needed to pay off the debt on the next release cycle. The main issue seems to be that, unlike financial debt, technical debt is much less visible, and so people have an easier time ignoring it."
design  productivity  agile  projectmanagement  development  technicaldebt 
november 2009 by ohskylab
LaunchBar 5
It's probably about time to replace Quicksilver. This looks like a decent alternative.
tools  mac  productivity  osx  launcher  quicksilver 
november 2009 by ohskylab
Write HTML and CSS quicker with with Zen Coding | 456 Berea Street
"Zen Coding lets you use syntax that looks very much like CSS selectors to write HTML".
tools  mac  productivity  textmate  tips  plugin 
september 2009 by ohskylab
Make Photoshop Faster
design  tools  software  productivity  osx  optimization  performance  photoshop 
august 2009 by ohskylab
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
"When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. There's always something coming on the next hour; the only question is what. But when someone on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to think about it."
development  software  business  productivity  collaboration  programming  culture  management  paulgraham 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Meeting Ticker
Beautiful. Need an iPhone version.
funny  management  projectmanagement  productivity  tools  money  fun  gtd  calculator  meetings  via:russelldavies 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Ryan Carson: How to Measure the Health of your Business at a Glance - Industry Updates - Entrepreneur - Virgin
"The way we do this is by having a 1-hour meeting every Tuesday morning where my manager presents a PDF report that outlines these figures and colours the report either Red (we're in trouble and we better do something about it), Yellow (We're in danger, but it's fixable) or Green (we're on track to achieve our goals)."
business  productivity  management  finance  process  accounting 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Visual workflow maps & creative file management for designers | Gridiron Flow Product Page
design  tools  mac  productivity  osx  photoshop  vcs  windows 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Engineers Are The Best Deal - So Stock Up On Them
"Software engineers today are about 200-400% more productive than software engineers were 10 years ago because of open source software, better programming tools, common libraries, easier access to information, better education, and other factors. This means that one engineer today can do what 3-5 people did in 1999." And so say all of us.
development  productivity  business  strategy  engineering 
june 2009 by ohskylab
Milton Glaser - Ten Things I Have Learned
design  business  productivity  career  creativity  psychology  philosophy  wisdom  miltonglaser 
june 2009 by ohskylab
adaptive path » blog » Dan Harrelson » Changemakers.com: Remote Collaboration
Adaptive Path using Basecamp, Skype and ConceptShare. Been impressed by the latter, in particular (although there are plenty of other services doing the same thing).
conceptshare  basecamp  adaptivepath  projectmanagement  productivity  communication  collaboration 
june 2009 by ohskylab
Klok - Personal Time Tracking made Easy - Free Software
via:rowanrosser  tools  productivity  air  time  lifehacks  gtd 
may 2009 by ohskylab
qsb-mac - Google Code
"Google Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web."
tools  mac  productivity  osx  google  search  quicksilver 
may 2009 by ohskylab
scottberkun.com » Top ten reasons managers become great
business  productivity  work  management  process 
april 2009 by ohskylab
Parenting tips that work | Parent Hacks
productivity  gtd  lifehacks  parenting  children  advice 
february 2009 by ohskylab
Xobni - Search Your Outlook Email Inbox
tools  software  productivity  email  outlook  gtd  search  windows 
february 2009 by ohskylab
Preoccupations - Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time - NYTimes.com
"Time is the most perishable good in the world, and it is not replenishable. You can’t earn an extra hour to use on a busy day. Nonetheless, we usually have a vague feeling that there is plenty of time — somewhere in the future — so we waste it now and carelessly steal time from our families, friends or ourselves when we come up short at the end of a workday and need to stay an extra hour."
quotes  business  productivity  top  management  culture  psychology  nytimes  meetings 
january 2009 by ohskylab
How we use IRC at Last.fm | Richard Jones, Esq.
Good to see a bit more info on this. Experimented with irccat after seeing it mentioned at FOWA a couple of years ago but had trouble getting the dynamics right for a multi-project model.
tools  development  last.fm  collaboration  irc  irccat  productivity  communication 
january 2009 by ohskylab
freckle: time tracking rethought
Possible replacement for Harvest (which works reasonably well but is a little clunky). Harvest costs half as much per month for individuals, though.
productivity  web  projectmanagement  time  gtd 
december 2008 by ohskylab
Alex Payne | How I Use TextMate
More useful TextMate tips.
textmate  productivity  osx  editor  tools 
december 2008 by ohskylab
43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders
productivity  creativity  gtd  attention  inspiration 
december 2008 by ohskylab
TextMate productivity tips | 456 Berea Street
Some good tips here. TextMate is by far and away the best editor I've ever used.
textmate  tools  mac  productivity  osx  editing 
november 2008 by ohskylab
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
"Web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen."
tools  productivity  collaboration  text  editing 
november 2008 by ohskylab
TeamCity :: Powerful Continuous Integration Server
"A powerful build management and continuous integration server supporting both Java and .NET teams."
tools  productivity  testing  continuousintegration  agile  development 
november 2008 by ohskylab
Hyperspaces
"Hyperspaces uses new technology in Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” such as Core Animation and Core Image. Watch as your desktop gently fades from one color to another, or use the new space switcher to quickly flip between your spaces." A giant "laser".
mac  osx  producivity  productivity  spaces 
october 2008 by ohskylab
Scrumy
"A project management tool loosely based off of Scrum."
tools  business  productivity  agile  scrum  planning 
october 2008 by ohskylab
KeyCue - find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts
"KeyCue gives you an instant overview of the overall functionality of any application, plus lets you automatically start working more efficiently by making use of menu shortcuts."
mac  osx  productivity  gtd 
september 2008 by ohskylab
ChronoSync | Perform File and Folder Synchronizations and Backups Like Clockwork | Econ Technologies
"Allows you to efficiently synchronize files and folders from one disk location to another."
tools  software  productivity  mac  osx  sync 
august 2008 by ohskylab
teleport 1.0.1 - MacUpdate
"A simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs." Similar to synergy but Mac-only.
software  osx  mac  productivity  sharing  synergy 
july 2008 by ohskylab
SourceForge.net: SynergyKM
"A GUI wrapper around the synergy command line tool that lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware."
mac  synergy  sharing  productivity 
july 2008 by ohskylab
Web Worker Daily » Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive «
"The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement, strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy, enabled by the Web, works on innovation, flat knowledge networks, and discontinuous product
productivity  business  culture  work  web  trends 
july 2008 by ohskylab
Welcome to Backboard
"Backboard makes it simple to collect feedback from friends, co-workers, classmates, or anyone. It works with documents, images, text, and URLs."
collaboration  productivity  design  sharing  tools 
may 2008 by ohskylab
TotalTunes Control
"As discreet as the invisible man, TotalTunes Control gives you the control of iTunes. TotalTunes Control offers the ability to create shorcuts to control iTunes and toggle shown TotalTunes Control controller window."
itunes  mac  osx  music  productivity  tools 
april 2008 by ohskylab
huddle ~ Online Project Management, Group Collaboration and Document Sharing
Basecamp alternative. "Combines group collaboration, project management and document sharing using social networking principles."
collaboration  projectmanagement  productivity 
april 2008 by ohskylab
Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software
"An application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time."
productivity  osx  apple  wireless  wifi 
april 2008 by ohskylab
Isolator
"When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand."
mac  software  osx  focus  gtd  productivity 
march 2008 by ohskylab
Coding Horror: Revisiting The Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
programming  development  process  productivity 
march 2008 by ohskylab
Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web
"Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever."
collaboration  whiteboard  web  productivity  proofing 
march 2008 by ohskylab
SXSW: Lessons Learned at 37 Signals - ReadWriteWeb
37signals  startup  management  productivity  usability  strategy  sxsw 
march 2008 by ohskylab
RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software
Automatically watches what you're doing and logs it. Not sure how you'd tie it to a specific job without intervention, though.
productivity  tools  projectmanagement  time 
march 2008 by ohskylab
TechCrunch: Startups Must Hire The Right People And Watch Every Penny. Or Fail.
"Startups that hire incorrectly fail. They don’t probably fail, or maybe fail. They just plain fail."
business  startup  hiring  productivity 
march 2008 by ohskylab
How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)
Some good, some bad.
startup  business  productivity  work 
march 2008 by ohskylab
ReviewBasics -- Home
"Comment, annotate, and markup images, documents, and videos."
collaboration  tools  feedback  annotation  projectmanagement  productivity  process 
february 2008 by ohskylab
MindNode » MindNode
"A free and very easy to use mindmapping application."
mindmap  osx  mac  productivity  tools  brainstorming 
february 2008 by ohskylab
bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online
"A simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
mindmap  brainstorming  tools  collaboration  productivity 
february 2008 by ohskylab
Antipatterns - Design Patterns
development  management  patterns  design  projectmanagement  process  productivity 
january 2008 by ohskylab
Behance :: Articles :: Tip: Generate Ideas In Moderation!
"Idea generation is an addiction... an engaging, brain-spinning indulgence that must be practiced in moderation."
ideas  inspiration  productivity  creativity  innovation  rvrb 
january 2008 by ohskylab
How to Use a Notebook to Make 2008 the Best Year Ever - Lifehack.org
productivity  gtd  lifehacks  inspiration  ideas 
january 2008 by ohskylab
DocumentWallet | ReceiptWallet | GGT Enterprises, LLC
"Allows you to scan in and manage your documents." If only I could be bothered to buy a scanner.
mac  pdf  osx  productivity  lifehacks  organisation  storage 
january 2008 by ohskylab
Quicksilver: The Guide - The Apple Blog
quicksilver  mac  osx  productivity 
december 2007 by ohskylab
ThinkingRock
"A free software application for collecting and processing your thoughts following the GTD methodology." Java.
gtd  software  productivity  tools 
november 2007 by ohskylab
A Roadmap to Spectacular GTD Failure · The Cranking Widgets Blog
gtd  productivity 
november 2007 by ohskylab
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Quicksilver Plug-ins
"Launching applications and documents is just Quicksilver's gateway drug: The more you get used to doing things with Quicksilver, the more things you want to do with it."
quicksilver  mac  osx  gtd  productivity 
november 2007 by ohskylab
Taskpaper
"For Mac users who want a simpler way to stay organized and get things done."
gtd  software  mac  productivity  osx 
november 2007 by ohskylab
"Open in TextMate" from Leopard Finder – The Pug Automatic
"An "Open In TextMate" Finder toolbar icon for Leopard [...] A single TextMate window will open, containing all selected or dropped items in a project."
textmate  osx  leopard  mac  productivity  finder 
october 2007 by ohskylab
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