Tools for Thought

Keyword bookmarks are old news to Firefox power users, but never fail to be a revelation to the rest of the browsing population. Calling up websites with keywords, especially when they’re kept short, is much faster than use the mousing to bookmarks on the Bookmarks Toolbar or the Bookmarks menu. Using keyword bookmarks exclusively also […]

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Despite being organized in other aspects of my workflow, my filing system for electronic documents was haphazard. This became increasingly irritating as I moved into freelance writing, where my articles sometimes wound up on my desktop, sometimes in My Documents, other times in a nonce project folder. Since I sent the articles as Word attachments […]

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I once had a poetry teacher, Ron Koertge, who constantly urged his students to eliminate weak lines in a poem rather than modify them. When we would present our poems before the class, he would often lob casual critiques like, “That third stanza should be cut” or “This poem probably needs to be cut in […]

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You’ve read David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity. You’ve got religion. You’ve even got a Palm organizer. You’ve put “Set up GTD system on Palm” on your Project list. So what’s your Next Action?
While there are many excellent aftermarket list management and datebook solutions available for the Palm (any Palm […]

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