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Rollabind @ Staples/Target?

Rollabind @ Staples/Target?

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TOPICS: Lofi

iTunes copying songs twice.

I imported my songs awhile ago from a pc to my new mac. However, I just realized that I could potentially save a lot of space:

I have seemingly all of my music in my /music folder -- in addition to that, I seem to have all my music in /music/itunes/itunes music/ folder, except its divided by albums. If I deleted ALL of the music in just my /music folder, would that effect anything my music collection/itunes? Or does my mac somehow require them to be in both places?

Thanks!

TOPICS: Mac OS X

Whitelist for Adium?

In his recent IDEO video, I thought I heard Merlin say that Adium has an easy way for you to filter who sees you online. I think I inserted wishful thinking into what I heard because I can't find what I'm looking for. Maybe you can point me in the right direction.

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Review: Waterman Harmonie fountain pen

Review: Waterman Harmonie fountain pen

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TOPICS: Lofi

Getting started with GTD

After listening to a few Productive Talk podcasts and starting to listen to the GTD audio book, I'm trying to get my arms around how to actually get started in the GTD practice.

I work as an IT consulting co. account mgr. In office about 50% of the time, getting 40 actionable emails per day, but most are not defferable, I have to handle and do most of the tasks.

Being over 50, remembering everything is not what it used to be and I am looking for a method to improve tracking of emails, phone calls, and physical documents.

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Zotero anyone?

Zotero anyone?

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Keeping a task log or timesheet

Keeping a task log or timesheet

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GTD for Linux

GTD for Linux

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Weekly Review Audio CD Set

Can anyone weigh in on this?

GTD Weekly Review 3 CD Set

Looks shiny, but awfully expensive for 3 hours of audio.

iGTD vs Midnight Inbox

Good afternoon 43 folders forum users,
I know it's a very sparse and generalized question, but I've just got myself into GTD, have been restructuring my busy workflow and am in a bit of an opinion stalemate.

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