Just a quick reminder that this wednesday is the final day to enter for a free (!) license of MindManager 6 Pro. Check out the contestdetails at the end of this review of MindManager and enter your favourite mindmap. I already received a dozen or so excellent maps so you will still have a chance! Good luck!
29 10 06 - 19:27 - Permanent link - one comment
It is no surprise that since I received my free copy of MindJet’s MindManager (MM), I have been using this program like crazy. And I must say, it is a very diverse and broad application which you can use in a variety of ways. What I would like to do is not run you through all the features and possibilities of MM but use it as a guideline through the five steps of GTD and see how you can use it. If you need to know what Mindmapping is or need a feature-rich review of MindManager, please check out MindJet’s tour on their website.
After the review, you will have the chance to win one of five copies of MindManager Version 6 Pro, so stick around!
More >>25 10 06 - 17:28 - Permanent link - six comments
I received an email a couple of days ago about Scrybe. Guess I wasn’t the only one. Right now, the productivosphere (just made that one up) is buzzing with excitement about this new online office application. Check out the promovideo after the click
More >>22 10 06 - 10:40 - Permanent link - three comments
How can you can connect a highly effective productivity principle with Mickey Mouse? Well, read this story on how you can use the GTD principles when visiting Disney World. Or any other amusementpark for that matter.
We go to Disney alot, so I started a project called "Plan next Disney Trip" and stored on the attached notes any ideas, tips or reminders that I want to have for the next time (i.e. approximately how much to expect to spend on food, best times/days to attend the parks, etc).
21 10 06 - 22:09 - Permanent link - one comment
OK, I always thought of myself as a Firefox poweruser. I use the keyboard shortcuts all the time, have my extension highly configured and know how to get at parts of the browser really fast.
But one area of Firefox I never really touched until 10 minutes ago are the Smart Keywords. Oh sure, I type my keyword in the adressbar and it goes straight to Google. But every now and again I would like to search Wikipedia or YouTube. I used the searchbar for those searches but I just found out it can go a lot faster. With Smart Keywords.
You can read here how you can add those smart searches to your own bookmarks. And better yet, you can use them on any searchengine. Even your intranet or your CRM system. Really powerful stuff and worth to look into!
21 10 06 - 20:02 - Permanent link - one comment
Since a couple of weeks, I’ve been using Netvibes as my main startup page. I tried several of these dashboard/aggregator kind of pages but Netvibes gives me…well…good vibes. I have several tabs with the most important information for me to see in a glance. On my personal page I see my Gmail, Google Calendar, Mint referrers for this website, important news here in Holland a few other newspages. See for yourself. I erased some info on the calendar for personal purposes.
Netvibes also supports other-than-RSS content like Flickr-photos, searchpanes, Writely documents and eBay integration. Very interesting which gives me the chance to write about it some more in the future, perhaps a sort of “tips and tricks on netvibes”? Anyone interested in this?
One other thing Netvibes comes with are keyboard-shortcuts, yay! With the arrow buttons, enter, the keys n,p,k,j and some other combinations, I can quickly run through the messages.
Anyway, as you can see I have several tabs and one of them is a GTD tab. Ofcourse, this comes with a few resources found on the ‘Net about GTD. I decided to open up this tab for other Netvibes users. So you can use this link to get a GTD-tab in your own Netvibes-page.
Let me know if you plan on using Netvibes or if you already use it, what are your thoughts about it?
14 10 06 - 21:06 - Permanent link - thirteen comments
Last week, Mindjet gave us the opportunity to visit an online webseminar with David Allen. In a (technically challenged, I must say) hour-long webseminar, The Dave gave us some insight in how he uses his own GTD-principles. He gave us a little glimpse in his own mindmaps, for instance his 20,000 feet goals, a brainstorm-map about hiring a new P.A. and the futuree of the David Allen company. And yes, that brainstorm has a little box called “book 3” Hmmmm….
13 10 06 - 22:55 - Permanent link - No comments yet
Merlin Mann, author on 43folders.com has written an excellent piece on the use of priorities in your life and your Next Actions list. Definitely worth a read and a save in you rreference folder.
The truth is that sometimes you have crap days, pencils need to be sharpened, or maybe you just don’t have the tools or energy to do what you want the second you want. That’s life, pal. Deal.
03 10 06 - 17:00 - Permanent link - No comments yet
Mindjet invites us for a 1-hour Webinar with The Man, David Allen. On Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 10:00 AM PDT (that’s 7 PM for me on the same day…) you can join this free webseminar right from your browser. From the raving invitation:
Join us for a scintillating hour with Allen as he reviews best practices to increase your productivity, both at home and at work. Find out how technology – in particular Mindmapping and web conferencing – are powerful tools that Allen considers part of anyone’s productivity ‘bag of tricks’. Leave this web seminar with new ideas and concepts on how to increase your productivity in the four key areas of Allen’s model
- Externalizing information and capturing notes
- Defining current reality
- Generating new ideas and perspectives
- Organizing information
We all know we should probably be more thoughtful, creative, focused, and organized – join us for this 60 minute web seminar with the person that Fast Company cites as “...one of the most influential thinkers on productivity” to find out how!
I already registered, maybe you should too!
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I just added a new feature to the comments of this blog. If you think your textarea is too small, you can use the buttons on the right to increase the size of the textarea or to increase the fontsize. It should work in all common browsers. If you find some difficulty or an error, please let me know
The extension is provided by the author of Pivot weblogsoftware, Bob den Otter
01 10 06 - 21:06 - Permanent link - No comments yet
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 '6 ways to run an effective meeting'.
The next article on this blog is called 'Join a free webseminar with David Allen'.
You can find all the articles on the frontpage.
You can contact me via email on punkey at gmail dot com.
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