Ever had the feeling that the meetings you attend are a complete waste of time? No agenda, no organizer, just some incoherent emotional rambling about stuff that bothers you and the others. Well, check out these six ways to hold a tight meeting. Just as they do at Google HQ.
More >>28 09 06 - 22:21 - Permanent link - one comment
Today I received a very interesting link in my feedreader. The dutch PR Firm for Mindjet is giving away free copies of the excellent program Mindmanager for bloggers. If you like to brainstorm, think through processes and generaly get things of your mind, Mindmanager can be a wonderful tool for you.
As they say for themself (translated from dutch):
The number of blogs, both personal and professional, are growing. The give a new way of knowledge sharing and information flows. Mindjet plays a big role in that area. For that reason we would like to support bloggers with their creativity and offer MindManager for free. With this software they can order their data in a better way and updating your blog becomes easier
28 09 06 - 14:38 - Permanent link - three comments
From the Ready For Anything reading group I found this link to an old Fast Company interview with The Dave. Great stuff. With one very true and very beautiful quote
You can do anything — but not everything.
Print it on a tile, hang it on your monitor. Very true!
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In the fourth installment of Sunday Shortcuts (yes I know it’s monday…) I would like to put the spotlight on one of the best Firefox extensions I have seen. The Gmail Macros make it very very easy for you to manage your email in Gmail. The script is Firefox only and you will need the Greasemonkey Extension. If you don’t know what Greasemonkey is, check out this website which explains it in good detail. Ofcourse you will need a GMail account to work with the Gmail Macros (GM)
More >>25 09 06 - 21:28 - Permanent link - No comments yet
Do you use your mobile smartphone a lot for capturing ideas or checking tasks? Do you have Outlook as your primary GTD system? Than perhaps SmarterTasks might be an interesting option for you. I haven’t had the chance to try it out myself but the screenshots and key features look promising
You can try it for 30 days and afterwards purchase it for $14,95. If anyone has some experience with this mobile app, please let me know!
24 09 06 - 13:32 - Permanent link - two comments
“Where are the sunday shortcuts?”, “Where are the new articles?” All valid questions…but I had something far far far more important to do the last couple of weeks. And the coming years. Me and my girlfriend Helie are very happy with our new daughter Tess. Her full name is Tess Moana Meeuwsen. Her middle name Moana is the Maori word for “ocean” or as they say “big blue surface”. We have a weakness for New Zealand and the colour of the ocean back there so that’s why we named here Moana.
We also made a website for her. Ofcourse it’s a weblog. It’s all in dutch, but you can check out some of the photos we made of Tess and our new happy family.
Right now, Tess is sleeping so I have some time for my own work and check some stuff online. I have 10 days off so plenty of time to get used to my new life as a loving father. I am very pleased to already see some of the GTD principles coming back in the way I take care of Tess. We write stuff down very quick so we don’t forget new diapers, or mailing some government-issue about the birth. Also, I keep a notebook (yes, a Moleskine) to write little stuff down we learn while raising and caring Tess. I hope I find the will and the time to keep this up and bring on some of the thoughts and principles of GTD to little Tess. Makes a well-cleaned house I hope :-)
21 09 06 - 13:41 - Permanent link - six comments
Sometimes the solution to a problem can be so simple. If you have Windows XP and MS Office running. James gave me a quick tip on how to get to regularly opened folders in a flash while working in MS Office. Just add it to “My Places” and it appears in the shortcut bar. Check out James’ post with a very clear screenshot. Thanks for the tip!
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Hehehe...from the bLaugh website. Comics from the blogosphere.
10 09 06 - 17:07 - Permanent link - No comments yet
I recently joined a readingclub. Yeah, a good ol'fashioned readingclub. Well, online ofcourse. C'mon, I'm not gonna sit in some library or bookstore. Just kidding folks, just kidding. On the Ready4Anything mailinglist you can jump in a new readingsession of David Allen's "other" book: Ready for Anything. This book doesn't describe the GTD process but it tells little stories and anecdotes which relate to GTD. They are short columns (2-3 pages) which The Dave wrote for his online newsletters. The book consists of 52 chapters, so you can read a chapter a week. That is exactly what we do at the mailinglist. We read a chapter and discuss it during the week. We start with chapter two tomorrow so feel free to subscribe and hop aboard!
Anyway, last week I got pointed to an interesting PDF. It is called RAMdump.pdf and it gives you startingpoints for you mental dump. Everything you have on your mind. Big, small, long, short, multi-step, anything, just dump it on paper or on your screen as a part of your collection process. The list is really big I must say but definitely worth to take a look at. I think it is a list you don't need to take a look at every week and I think it has some pointers that might give you new ideas instead of reminding you of hidden, old ideas. But take a look at it and take the points you need to get started with the RAM dump of your brain. From my own experience I do have to say: Do a braindump but make sure you follow it up correctly with the processing and organizing of your open loops. And even better: Weekly Review! Otherwise you keep dumping the same open loops over and over again. Not good for your health and your own time and energy.
Do you have some tips for a good braindump (I love this word...) or collection-techniques? Let us know in the comments!
Have fun!
07 09 06 - 21:48 - Permanent link - one comment
This is an article which is part of my weblog "What's the Next Action". It deals with everything GTD and the five phases of projectplanning as written by Dave Allen in his book "Getting Things Done".
The previous article on this blog is called 'Shortcut Sunday #3: MS Outlook'.
The next article on this blog is called 'Some fun on timemanagement'.
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You can contact me via email on punkey at gmail dot com.
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