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Email organization, search, and navigation for your Outlook inbox
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"I collect a ton of information, then organize it, then I map it to the task I’m trying to do. Then I repeat."
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Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village.
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No schedules. No mandatory meetings. Inside Best Buy's radical reshaping of the workplace
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"Coming from a place of abundance means believing that there’s more out there than one person could ever possibly have; believing that there’s more than enough to go around."
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Getting High Performance out of High Potential People
"Manage for Passion. This is the key takeaway."
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Oh the emails you'll get . . .
On management consulting: "The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. "
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10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
Photos from ten really cool looking spaces created to inspire creativity.
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"What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process?"
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Opening Space for Emerging Order
"Open Space Technology, as a definable approach to organizing meetings has been in existence for somewhat more than a dozen years."
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"So if you want to become an early riser (or just exert more control over your sleep patterns), then try this: Go to bed only when you’re too sleepy to stay up, and get up at a fixed time every morning."
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"Boss management can stimulate better performance, improve your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand and reap the rewards."
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Why can't you pay attention anymore?
All of that data flying at you by e-mail, instant message, cell phone, voice mail and BlackBerry--it could actually be making you dumber.
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Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom
Six tips for happiness from Tal Ben-Shahar.
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"The Printable CEO (PCEO) is a form I made to focus my time productively. For me, that means concentrating on making my freelance business sustainable and fun."
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"Not only are mistakes a great source of insight that we can apply to next steps in our journey, sometimes they're absolutely required to make us stop and listen."
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Small Biz 101: Tips for Increasing Sales
A business needs sales to survive. Tips for someone just starting out on how to do it.
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"We're primed to think that talent is the key to success. But what counts even more is a fusion of passion and perseverance. In a world of instant gratification, grit may yield the biggest payoff of all."
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An online to-do list manager that will email or text message you reminders.
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Nick Denton lists the tools he uses.
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"I’ve realized that the basic corporate design model for Web and application design is broken. This article will share some of the conclusions I’ve drawn and propose some better approaches for designing successful applications."
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How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done
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"Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations."
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BugMeNot requires registration for any "employee, partner, affiliate or legal representative of any site which enforces compulsory user registration" with some great questions.
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"Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with sofware applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more
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Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
Garrett Dimon: "After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I’d lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer."
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Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged
Some recommendations companies can follow to help them get blogged
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Writing Inspiration at the Press of a Button
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Interview with Jason Fried of 37Signals
"The best marketing in the world is to give people products they love. Give them things they want to tell others about."
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The definitive collection of idea generation methods
"This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years."
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"MailTags is a plug-in for Apple's Mail.app 2.0 (Tiger) that enables you to go way beyond folder filing for organizing mail by enabling metadata tagging."
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" A small, lightweight application timer for OS X. It keeps track (in increments of five seconds) how long you spend in each application."
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"advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals"
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Getting Real: The problem with preferences, interface design, and the customer experience
"And that’s the point I want to make. One of the hidden dangers of highly customized software, and products flush with preferences, is that it becomes very difficult to craft an ideal customer experience."
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"These come from years of being frustrated by useless meetings and a true desire to help people get the most out of their work day."
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Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)
"Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas."
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Big businesses are not the only ones who can benefit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too. Ben Hammersley investigates
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A Guide to Getting Things Done
Wired breaks down just what Getting Things Done is
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"Much like many of you I not only got into personal productivity to get things doneâ€â€I want to do great things."
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Switch! - Cross-Disciplinary Learning
"Any student of creativity or innovation knows that changing disciplines seems to be a way of keeping 'fresh' and getting new ideas."
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Your Central Nervous System: Your Biological Key to Productivity
Strategies to make your body work for you
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"When viewing mail you can apply the "Act-On" action for a message by making simple keystrokes."
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"He's away from his desk" is something that's now true of New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell.
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Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
"Sniff. Explore. Collect. Focus. Select. Order. Draft. Revise."
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How to give and receive criticism
"Good criticism serves one purpose: to give the creator of the work more perspective and help them make their next set of choices."
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"But the minute you think you know, the minute you go - oh, yeah, we've been here before, no sense reinventing the wheel - you stop learning, stop questioning, and start believing in your own wisdom, you're dead."
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"ClockWork is a time management solution that allows you to easily track what you do during your day."
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"Open up your cellphone, and approach their cubicle. Say into the phone, "hold on one second." Then tell your talkative friend exactly what you need to tell them."
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Some quick tips that might help one become more productive
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43 Folders: "4. Per cringe item, think honestly about why you’re freaked out about it. Seriously. What’s the hang-up?"
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Getting Things Done on a Macintosh
Ask MetaFilter: How do you stay organized on your Mac?
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Puts your ToDo lists in your menu bar and synchronizes with iCal.
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Getting Things Done With “Delete�
"I’ve found that one of the easiest ways to eliminate a problem or to make something better is to take something away."
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.
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Dream teams thrive on mix of old and new blood
"New team members clearly added creative spark and critical links to the experience of the entire industry."
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Hog Bay Notebook lets you record and organize your ideas in a convenient way. Bring order to your Mac with this simple and powerful tool.
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You can do anything - but not everything.
David Allen, one of the world's most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace -- without wearing yourself down.
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For years, Default Folder has helped speed Macintosh users through the process of opening, saving, and managing files.
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Macworld: "But important e-mail messages are often hard to define and organize with automatic, rules-based management. They require filters and rules that reside only in your brain."
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The BlackBerry generation, writes TRALEE PEARCE, is finding salvation in pen and paper
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10 ways to tackle your goals and projects
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Who's in charge--you or your brain?
Creating Passionate Users: "Everyone should know how their brain really works, because it--not you--is running the show!"
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10 life lessons from a designer
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Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann: "Think of your life in terms of things that you can choose to do or not -- your job isn't about filing."
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10 Ways To Get the Creative Juices Flowing
A good list of ways to get your brain working creatively and work through a problem
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Interview: 43Folders' Merlin Mann
Lifehacker: "After writer Danny O’Brien coined the term “life hacks,� productivity guru Merlin Mann brought it to life with real-world examples."
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