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Top 10 RSS clicks

(Speaking of Feedburner...) As much as a stats nerd as I am, I’ve never paid too much attention to the data Feedburner provides on which items have been most “popular” among the (now ~10k) people who read 43F through the RSS feed. In fact, I only realized the other day that I can actually see which items have gotten the most “clicks” since day one.

If you’re curious about which posts were a hit in their time with the XML-enabled geekerati, read on.

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Recap: Podcasts, Setups, Appending, Freshness & Modesty

It's been a while since we've done a 43F "best of," so here's a few of the posts and podcasts from the past few months that have generated the most traffic, comments, emails, and linky love. Also, if you're new to the Mothership, don't miss our January series, "Fresh Starts & Modest Changes."

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Design a Moleskine GTD System?

Design a Moleskine GTD System?

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GTD Reference & Mindmapping

Hi people. Long time fan, first time poster.

I am looking for advice from people who use mindmaps & GTD. Currently I use a mindmap in MindManager Lite for my reference material. I found it works well, but I question its efficiency.

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File Organization Tipps

File Organization Tipps

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How do you review multiple large documents quickly?

Part of my job is to read/review/assimilate long articles, white papers, short manuals, et cetera. I have a GTD context for "Read/Review" and guess what? Things stay there like they're in quicksand. I need a way to "grok" big documents. Anyone got any tips or links? Something step-by-step would be helpful. I'm not talking about simple speed-reading; I'm talking about reading and evaluating but not spending all day on a single tome.

Spontaneous Thinking

Hello: I apologize if this has been covered before, but I couldn't figure out what search terms I needed to use. After trying several I decided just to post.

So David Allen repeatedly says that you need a system for capturing thoughts as they occur. "Your best thinking about work won't occur while you're at work." However, I can't figure out what system he recommends to capture those thoughts and put them into the larger system. Am I missing this, or what do the rest of you do?

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D3 - A new Kinkless GTD Tiddly Wiki

D3 - A new Kinkless GTD Tiddly Wiki

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Munging your world with Greasemonkey

These kids are doing crazy stuff with Greasemonkey.

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