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Sunday, May 01, 2005

Uh, Oh - Random webbing alert

So I started doing some random webbing 'cause I didn't feel like doing anything constructive. Found some interesting productivity stuff. Follow along as I recreate the journey...

First I was at Excite and found an article called, "'Tags' Ease Sifting of Digital Data", where it says,
"Noah Brier regularly looks for bookmarks tagged "lifehacks" - for everyday productivity tips - and recently ran across an article on better ways to shave."
So off to Google to do a search on "lifehacks" where I find a page called "Technorati: Tag: lifehacks" and if you read the earlier article would seem very interesting so I followed the link. And right there towards the top of the list is "GTD with Gmail (Conclusion)". So, being a Gmail user I am going further down the rabbit hole and realize that this is the last article and just what is GTD? So I start clicking the link to the previous article to get back to the beginning of the Gmail articles. The link to the prior article is called "Shaving...the Old Way", curious, I click. And amazingly enough it's the article on shaving mentioned in the link I followed from Excite. And I wasn't even looking for it.

So back to the Gmail articles. They keep talking about GTD as if I should know what it is. Fortunately, the first Gmail article has a GTD link. This GTD stuff looks really cool. I may have to buy a copy of the book but for now I'm going to go off and read the Gmail articles. I hope you found some of this interesting.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That shaving article was great, huh? Anyhow, just wanted to point you to two other "lifehacks" pages you might enjoy: Lifehacker and 43folders.

Those are good places to start. Hope you enjoy them.

xsive_guy said...

Noah, thanks for the info and the original articles and so forth. As to the shaving, I save even more time, I don't shave 'cept for every other month or so. The Lady Ann gave me a choice, shave every day or not all. It was an easy choice actually.

xsive_guy said...

Well, I just went across the street and bought the book, "Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity" and added it to my bookshelf.

xsive_guy said...

Watched a segment on productivity on 9 News tonight here: http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=11e52495-0abe-421a-0026-94d78c546f32&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf. The article provides a link to the Productivity Pro here: http://www.productivitypro.com/.