Category Archives: Productivity toolkit

Resources to help you become more productive and achieve your goals and dreams quicker.

Occasions helps you remember occasions

If I’ve ever forgotten your birthday I’m sorry. Remembering them is something I don’t do all that well. Even when I remember I have slim chance of knowing how old you are. But now, thanks to Occassions on my iPhone, I … Continue reading

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Closing my open loops for 2009

An open loop is something which is pulling on your attention. I have a few from 2009 relating to Quantum Gardener which I will close today lest they fester and end up consuming more and more of my time. 50 book … Continue reading

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My favourite authors

Tom Morris – Modern day philosopher. Every time I’ve been successful Tom’s 7 C’s of Success have all been in play. John Maxwell – Leadership mentor. An amazing knack (though hard work no doubt) of distilling leadership lessons into understandable … Continue reading

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How to identify life’s breakdowns

Over the last two weeks I’ve been heavily involved in home maintenance on some of our home computers. This has included replacing hard drives, re-installing multiple operating systems and reconfiguring wireless networks. The exercise highlighted to me the importance of … Continue reading

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When being helpful is a waste of time

I’m churning internet providers from Comcen to Bigpond (we were going to stay with Comcen but they don’t have the ports for ADSL2+ on my sub-exchange). Anyway as part of the deal Bigpond have sent me a wireless router at … Continue reading

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Livescribe Smartpen saves your memory

I had one of those conversations you’d rather not have with someone at work. They asked, “What did we decide about…?” and my honest response was, “I don’t know. I can’t even remember the conversation”. Neither of us could recall … Continue reading

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Using Dropbox with PersonalBrain

I’ve been using Dropbox to sync my PersonalBrain between multiple computers for a few weeks now. Dropbox copies files via the internet. As long as you follow the rule of ensuring you’re not running two copies of PB simultaneously — … Continue reading

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How being in love with Google led to a long-term relationship

Google, you can have the lot. And I give it willingly. First you helped me with a simple and fast search engine. This was followed up by the wonder of Google Earth and then Google Maps. Some other bits and … Continue reading

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Implementing a tickler file in PersonalBrain

I run my Getting Things Done (GTD) system using PersonalBrain as my primary tool. Using Tags for contexts and a Thought Type for dates I’m easily able to model an online tickler file. Tickler files are used to remind you … Continue reading

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Are You Missing Your Friends Important Facebook Status Updates?

If you found your Facebook friends suddenly not doing anything i.e., you no longer see their updates in your News Feed, then this is the solution. Are You Missing Your Friends Important Facebook Status Updates? | Facebook Profile Customization and … Continue reading

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