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» The GTD Resource Motherload: 100+ Links — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:49:45 +0000

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Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:44:54 +0000

[…] another good link from the guys over at Freelance Switch, one of my favorite Freelance blogs about managing your daily work flow and how building up your queue can be very problematic. The article offers suggestions in […]

By: Web Dev Notes » Blog Archive » WebDev Connection - 04 August 2007

Web Dev Notes » Blog Archive » WebDev Connection - 04 August 2007 — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:56:04 +0000

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By: Bashar

Bashar — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:41:44 +0000

Hahaha… Really the case with game queuing and playing just because it got high rating. I already almost stopped playing games just because of good reviews, and want to stop on queuing games. One at the end sees how much money he put as PREPAID waiting to be used someday, if ever.

By: ameL

ameL — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:22:49 +0000

What a disease. I have 50 books, 30 movies, gazillion bookmarks and mp3s to go through… Thanks for the tips. What a waste of time for something that “might” be fun/useful.

By: Tips to Improve your Development Productivity | Bookmark Bliss

Tips to Improve your Development Productivity | Bookmark Bliss — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:53:12 +0000

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By: Chris Hoeppner

Chris Hoeppner — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:33:17 +0000

What about some app taking care of our queue? I imagine it like this:

* Enter some thought, idea, task, game, song, blog post, whatever, and give it a category (music, work, game…) or/and a tag.

* The system keeps it in list for, let’s say, two weeks. If the item is untouched (it has not a next action assigned nor has been moved into a project, or made a task of) it gets moved into the dead list (sounds neat and stays there for some more time before the system just gets rid of it.

This way, those items you just enter “to be taken care of later” will just disapear (they have not been important enough to be a full task or project). It should clear 40 - 70% of useless tasks I have on my list.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:23:47 +0000

I try to sift through my bookmarks every few months or so and only keep them if I’ll need them again (like good reference information).

But I had to force myself to stop the “bookmark now and come back later” habit. If it looks interesting at the time, read it then and there!

By: eli edmundson

eli edmundson — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:40:56 +0000

TV and games are too big time-sucks I completely avoid, I had been doing Netflix but now I’ve nixed that too. There are a million great websites and blogs out there but I try to filter them and be really picky about what to bookmark, though I do mark plenty for later I actually do sort through them at least once a week, if I have to scroll more than a second I decide it’s gotten too long and off with their heads!