Tracking your time—for your clients, for yourself—doesn't have to be a dreaded task. Dispense with the preparation, avoidance, and gnashing of teeth. Freckle eliminates all the nonsense between you and your work.
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But is just tracking your time enough? Freckle helps you see the big picture: which days have you been working? How much, and on what? Is all that time billable time? What are your teammates and employees doing?

NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes. It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.

Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your network, restoring everything as normal. Freedom enforces freedom; a reboot is the only circumvention of the Freedom time limit you specify. The hassle of rebooting means you're less likely to cheat, and you'll enjoy enhanced productivity.

EtherPad is the only 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. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.

VoodooPad is a place to write down your notes and thoughts. Plant ideas, images, lists and anything else you need to keep track of and VoodooPad will grow with you, without getting in the way. You can even drag and drop folders, images, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad — they're linked up just like on the web. And with powerful search, nothing will be lost or out of reach. Do you ever have a bit of information that you're not sure where to file? Put it in VoodooPad, it won't mind. Because the more you put into it, the more useful VoodooPad becomes.

Path Finder is a standalone application that leverages what you already know about working with your files. It takes the Finder's familiar interface and adds numerous powerful features and interface innovations to help anyone be more productive on Mac OS X.

MercuryMover reduces the friction you feel when you use your Mac. With MercuryMover, you can move and resize windows on your Mac from the keyboard, positioning them precisely where you want. By shunning the slow and imprecise mouse, MercuryMover empowers you to work faster and play more.

John Seddon explains why targets make organisations worse and controlling costs makes costs higher. This elegant dissection of the organisational madness that pervades our culture was given at the 2009 conference of the Human Givens Institute.

Snippets lets you copy and paste like a Pro! You can easily save and categorize hundreds of snippets that you copy & paste from others apps on your iPhone! Instead of typing the same things over and over, like the same replies in email, or a favorite website address, just use Snippets which automatically copies your saved snippet to your clipboard, ready for use in any program on your iPhone!

Door de opkomst van email, RSS en weblogs lijkt het alsof we meer informatie over ons heen gestort krijgen. Gelijktijdig merken we ook dat we als kenniswerker effectiever en efficienter met onze tijd moeten omgaan. Traditionele time-management principes werken niet meer en je to-do lijstje is al verouderd als je je Inbox ’s ochtends opent. Het is hoog tijd voor geavanceerd gezond verstand, waarmee je in 5 stappen je werk en je leven weer op de rit krijgt. Het is tijd voor Getting Things Done…

Powerful script management utility. Instant access to your scripts, by keyboard shortcut or menubar.

Do you have one? Some folks are going to eight hours of meeting a day. At Ford, they used to have meetings to prepare for meetings, just to be sure everyone had their story straight.

Collaboration tools and online storage applications offer many possibilities: online collaborative editing, synchronizing across computers, sharing multiple files and discussion boards, and sharing windows and documents on the spot, to name a few. The following review of major products in this space will help you choose the right collaboration tools for your needs.

TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.

Use it like an egg timer or a count down timer.

MIT research shows that 40% of creative teams productivity is directly explained by the amount of communication they have with others to discover, gather, and internalise information. In other MIT studies, research shows that employees with the most extensive digital networks are 7% more productive than their colleagues. Furthermore, those with the most cohesive face-to-face networks are 30% more productive. This reinforces similar research by Aral, Brynjolfsson & Van Alstyne [3] that highlights the importance of these networks because they “strongly influence information diffusion … and access to novel information”. Availability of these networks, their research shows, is a highly significant predictor of worker productivity.

David Allen speaks on GTD and the two keys to sustaining a healthy life and work style.

When you visit a web site how do you know you're getting the best experience for you? That's the question the new Firefox add-on App Discover aims to solve. Once installed, the app could alert you if there were any enhancements (Greasemonkey, Firefox add-ons) or applications (Adobe AIR, Appcelerator Titanium, Fluid, Mozilla Prism) that work with the web site you're visiting.

MyMind is a combination of an outliner an a mind mapping application. Or a mind mapper with built-in outlining functionality. Whatever way you see it, it’s a unique application, you won’t find anything similar.

MindNode Pro is an elegant and simple-to-use mindmapping application for the Macintosh. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple and intuitive user interface that lets the user focus on expressing and developing ideas. Nearly no time is required to learn the interface.

Here we bring you 10 must have tools for your RTM on the desktop, for Windows and Mac users.

Does your computer interrupt you at inopportune moments? Does your software distract you when it wants attention? Do you wish that it could help you out with routine tasks at home and work?

Save your files effortlessly and open your folders instantly—Default Folder X makes Mac OS X's Open and Save dialogs work as quickly as you do. Custom keyboard shortcuts put your favorite and recent folders at your fingertips. Pop-up menus let you navigate your folders and open Finder windows. Open, save, and get back to work: Default Folder X is workflow for the rest of us.

Does the Finder have too few features for your liking? Does it offer too little information? Xfolders, the new file manager for Mac OS X, Tiger, is the solution. Xfolders supplements the Finder and it is, thanks to its compatability with Norton Commander, an effective assistant for administrating your files.

Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. Its so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life, without changing the way you work

Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.

Let’s limit our attention to one application—any application—at any time. Let’s make it easy to change focus when we have to. Let’s allow ourselves to bring other apps up quickly if we need them, but put them out of sight again just as quickly. Let’s rediscover how to focus, and get back to thinking.

Squirrel is a personal finance application for Mac OS X. It helps you track and plan your finances with ease. Powered by Mac OS X Leopard's most recent technologies, Squirrel features a powerful set of tools to allow you to manage your money from within a beautiful interface.

I’m using a fairly simple mailbox structure in Apple Mail. In each of my IMAP accounts, I’ve created an “Archive” mailbox. Once a day or so, I move all the unflagged, read messages from each inbox to the corresponding Archive mailbox for that account. Here’s an AppleScript that automates this inbox sweeping. It assumes that every IMAP account (including .Mac accounts) has an Archive mailbox.

Path Finder is an award-winning file browser and management application for Mac OS X. If you've ever wished Apple's Finder just did *feature X* or *Y*, Path Finder may be what you've been looking for.

Several computer science students at the University of Toronto and Seneca have made it their class project for this semester to port Ubiquity to Thunderbird and make it run there.

The Google Reader for Wider Screens Greasemonkey script uses all the horizontal space available in GReader for better viewing on wide monitors.

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

There’s no doubt about it, I’m in love with the cloud. Some people might not share my fascination with storage-in-the-cloud and compute-in-the-cloud models but I can’t wait to have the same computing experience regardless of the computer or device I’m using to connect to the Internet. I’ve taken it upon myself to change my workflow and digital lifestyle to get as much of my data online and make use of web-based tools until that utopian time comes. Here’s how I do it and you can do the same.

One of the best things any movie, book, or music can do is permanently change you. Tim Ferriss’ #1 bestselling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, changed my life.

The QuickText Thunderbird extension saves collections of reusable text snippets that help you whip up personalized replies to repetitive e-mail messages with a few keystrokes.

AutoSend Unsent Messages. Flushes entire outbox at regular intervals.

Well, as people rely on email as a primary means of communication, and everyday users deal with a mounting level of new messages per day, even more advanced features can help all of us keep our inbox under control.

This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. A commenter below (Chris) summed it up very well: “It’s a ’staging area’ for bookma

Managing and keeping track of all the digital information relevant to your lifestyle is becoming an increasingly important issue. Whether it be for business or pleasure, family or health, internal or external use, we all have the need to categorize, store

If you use your computer a lot -- and let's face it, you do -- you've got to stop using the mouse if you want to be at all productive. You know that. You use the common keyboard shortcuts. But are you maximizing your keyboard ninja skills?

An easy way to find out when everyone is free for your next meeting or event.

Matt Cutts: «At the beginning of the day, write down the 1-2 things you really want to accomplish that day. That will help keep you on track.

Developing new habits can jumpstart our creativity and even help us grow new brain cells, reports the New York Times.

With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you're looking for, without all the scrolling.

Tasque is a simple task management app (TODO list) for the Linux Desktop.

Treat employees like adults, write less, minimize your information intake, be confrontational in presentations, how to run a meeting, and more...

Excel conditional formatting is a hidden and powerful gem that when used well, can change the outlook of your project report / sales budget / project plan or analytical outputs from bunch of raw data in default fonts to something truly professional and go

Whether you're headed off to a business meeting, a university lecture, or a conference session, taking effective notes is a necessary skill to move your projects, your career and your education forward. Today I'll go over a couple of my favorite note-taki

Managing the steady stream of email that gathers in your inbox every day can feel like an impossible task. Not long ago, I kept a lengthening list of folders in my email software to track messages by topic, sender, project, urgency and any other context t

Ajatus is a revolutionary CRM that runs as a local Ajax web application on your own computer.

Nemo. It's a new way of managing files. Or rather not manage files. Currently it's a cross between a calendar and a file browser with labels. It's a free/open source GTK application written in C#.

In short, I can describe my GTD system in eight words. Make three lists. Revise them daily and weekly.

"(..) Wanneer je je dag begint met een taak die concentratie en aandacht vereist en die geen automatisme is, kom je in een vorm van ‘flow’ waardoor de rest van je dag ook veel productiever is. Kies de dag van tevoren zo’n taak uit en leg alles klaar

What brilliant recurring events have you set up on your calendar app?

The Productivity501 weblog details how to create a high quality scanned signature that you can quickly insert in a document so you can save yourself time and paper.

Een uitleg over Getting Things Done (GTD) in het Nederlands.

10 tips aimed at moving your productive life online.

If we focus on simplifying our online lives, we can drastically reduce the amount of time we spend online, the amount of time we spend working, the amount of information we have to consume, and the amount of stuff we have to keep track of.

MonkeyGTD is a TiddlyWiki powered GTD® system. GTD is short for Getting Things Done® the work-life management system and book by David Allen. Using a GTD system can increase your productivity and reduce procrastination.

A great way to cut down on the amount of time spent online is by creating an internet ritual.

However, there are two Gmail search tricks that aren't well-known (one isn't even documented) that, combined with the search operators, turn Gmail searches into something fierce: parentheses and curly brackets.

I introduce you to the way I’ve recently reorganized folders on my Mac OS X MacBook, in a manner that maximizes my productivity, making my daily information collection process a simple, organized and efficient one. This kind of setup can be made on any

Internet Attention Deficit Disorder is the productivity killer affecting most office workers today - the stringent urge to “browse just a little more” in between your daily work tasks; to peek at the Digg homepage, check out the hottest YouTube video

The message of Mark Hurst’s new book, Bit Literacy: In an age of infinite bits, time and attention are the scarce resources. The solution is to constantly manage your bits with the goal of reaching an “empty” state.