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There are three (closely-related) reasons that incorporating a new tool into your time management system often fails: It is too complicated It is too inflexible It is too hard Too Complicated A tool is too complicated when it does too many extra things that you don’t need. For example, the much heralded Kinkless GTD is too complicated for me because it […]

Moving parts break. CDs became popular back when I was in high school. I remember going through three Discmen in those four years. Each of them cost about $100-150. I also have an old walkman radio dating back from before CDs. It still works the same way it did when it was new. The radio cost […]

The Scope of my System The characteristics of your work setup define which features your time management system needs and which tools are available to you. My time management system is defined by the following characteristics: I work from home, off of one computer. This means: I don’t need contexts I use all desktop software and no web software. Because the […]

It’s been Field-Tested Five years ago the company I worked for asked me to start using a Franklin-Covey Planner. Like many others, I found that using a time management system helped me get more stuff done. It has been five years since that first Franklin Planner and I have experimented with many different tools and systems since […]

The paragraph that follows comes from The Kodak Primer, a promotional pamphlet apparently published in 1888, around the time the first Kodak camera was introduced. The major innovation of the Kodak camera was that it used special film that was flexible and was stored on spindles. This meant that a spindle of film could be […]

Are we getting stupid? François Joseph de Kermadec Big Beautiful, Dumb Whitespace Odeo goes simple and only insults us a little 33inc.com [Big buttons] implicitly say, “Hey, you’re too foolish to choose what to do next, so I’ve put a really big […]

Background I have been keeping an eye on Karelia Software’s website for news about Sandvox for quite sometime now. My interest was perked when I heard it was in development for two reasons: Karelia Software was behind Watson, one of the most interesting and inspired early Os X 3rd party applications. Watson was one of the […]

I created a search engine roll at Rollyo called “CSS Solutions from Gurus.” It searches the four websites that are always the first places I look for CSS coding solutions: Dan Cederholm’s SimpleBits, Dave Shea’s Mezzoblue, Douglas Bowman’s Stopdesign, and the web design magazine, A List Apart. Being able to search all at once […]

Bruce Tognazzini, Tog for short, is a well-known user-interface expert and was Apple employee #66. He is the author of a 3 part article comparing the speed of completing tasks with the mouse vs. the keyboard: part 1, part 2, and part 3. To summarize the articles: after testing subjects by having them complete the same […]

Introduction Before RSS I followed 5 websites. CNN, 43 Folders, Wired, and a couple of others that rotated with my interests. Then I started using an RSS feed reader and now I follow over 80 websites via their RSS feeds. That’s an increase of 16X or 1600%. How often do we hear about increases of 1600%? That […]