I'm time stamp crazy. I append time stamps everywhere. If my wife had not intervened, my daughter would have received a time stamp in the delivery room. Occasionally I wonder if there's any reason for this madness. Today I received a gentle reminder of why I do this.
I accidentally hit ⌘-A and DEL while browsing my notes in NVAlt. Whoops. All files deleted! Not to worry. ⌘-Z returned all of them, except with new file timestamps.
Michael's elegant application of Launch Center Pro. I only really use Launch Center for actions not just launching another app.
See also Ken Case's description of the URL schemes available in OmniFocus.
I read this pamphlet and thought "these basic ideas can be applied to anything." This one line could fix a lot of problems:
Stop, sit down, and try to figure out where you are. Use your head, not your legs.
Wow, Michael Lopp has a second edition of his amazing book Managing Humans
I don't like, believe in, or endorse generic management books. Managing Humans is not a management book. It's an instruction manual for working with people.
Michael starts a project with two initial pillars, a TextExpander snippet and a new OmniFocus folder.1
I start a project in a similar way. For any reasonably complex project, I create the following, in this order:
An NVAlt/Dropbox note describing the project The Goal Statement The Project Statement An Outline or mind map An OmniFocus folder The goal statement never gets edited. I keep it as a reminder of why I started the project.
The new Merlin Mann workflow interview with David and Katie. I don't archive many podcasts for long term storage, but I archive every one of these.
Merlin talking about OmniFocus? Yes, please. Mac Power Users is my single most anticipated podcast every week. Damn, it's good.
Damn, I like this guy.
I don’t think it’s creativity most people seek. No, people want to be more like post-creative people. People are nothing if not jealous of the success of others, especially over here in the arbitrarily westernmost side of the planet.
—Eddie Smith
On the internet, GTD is sufficiently indistinguishable from a religion. There is no shortage of people to help explain how everyone else is doing it wrong.1 Nothing I have posted has garnered more outrage through comments and emails than my opinions about GTD. I don't consider criticism a productivity tip. I also don't consider my opinions about productivity valuable to anyone other than myself.
I think Sven gets close to an even tempered assessment of GTD for his needs.
From Dave Lee:
The most important thing for the creative innovator is not a ton of tasks to do but rather the ability to see what’s important to focus on and to focus on that deeply.
