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A 'Getting Things Done' Valentine

Merlin Mann | Feb 14 2005

Deez Steeles: Getting Things Done as Marriage Counciling

This is a wonderful post, and it illustrates something I hear from people all the time—how they feel more tuned-in to their personal life once they find a way to climb out from underneath their pile of ephemeral crap, and, frankly, how they are finally able to pull their head out of their ass long enough to pay attention to the really important people in their life.

In my case, my positive outcome is that my marriage is strong, and my wife knows and feels like she is the #1 priority in my life. So then I can identify the next physical thing I need to do in order to accomplish those goals: it might be buying flowers, or taking an evening to cook dinner and spoil her, or booking a little weekend getaway. Now, my wife doesn’t really like the idea of being treated like a “project,” against which tasks are assigned. But, I would say that I’m just using GTD as a tool to make sure that I am constantly reminded to take actions to make her a priority. That can’t be bad.

That’s pretty cool. Nice Valentine’s Day message for you GTD fans (and a savvy reminder never to let your loved one know they’re a project).

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Command line tips and tricks to speed up your life

jason7 | Jul 18 2007

Command line tips and tricks to speed up your life

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Organize bookmarks in non-browser format?

Jay | Mar 15 2008

I'm trying to organize my bookmarks and I think I'm kinda screwed now.

For a few years now, I've been keeping my "most important" links in plain HTML files which I set as my Homepage with tabs at the top for Main, Software, University, Research, etc. instead of using my browser's bookmark organizer. It works(ed) quite well. But, over the years, and a few thousand bookmarks now, its completely unmanagable to sort through. I have a good idea of what I want to keep. Worse, I've been saving bookmarks in different browsers so I have some in Safari and Firefox.

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HDD Folder oranization

enine | Feb 21 2006

HDD Folder oranization

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Fresh voices on 43 Folders

Merlin Mann | Oct 4 2007

Since 43 Folders launched three years ago, I've been thrilled and humbled by the insight that readers, commenters, and the occasional guest blogger have brought to this modest undertaking. And I've regretted that it's been a little clunky to properly share those insights with the same authority and promotion as your hapless author's contributions. Well, I think we're about to get better at that.

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