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Tracking business mileage

Tracking business mileage

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iTerm nerds, unite!

TOPICS: Mac OS X

Great TODO List - Motivation Lacking?

Great TODO List - Motivation Lacking?

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lo-fi - keeping it tidy - thoughts ?

I'm implementing GTD using mainly lo-tech, ie, all my Next Actions, Projects etc are listed on 5x3 index cards (stapled together by category - ie, all NA@home cards together etc).

I just cross out items when done but the cards tend to look a bit messy after a few weeks (my dodgy handwriting doesn't help !), to the point where it gets tricky to scan through them efficiently.

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Bulletin board for my laptop?

Bulletin board for my laptop?

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Entourage & GTD

Entourage & GTD

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Merlins War on clutter thread?

Greetings, I found this site after finding "My War on Clutter" in a google search. I joined because I wanted to read the rest of Merlins articles on this subject. Thus far, I can only find the original thread and the numerous comments on it but can not find the rest of the stories/articles/posts pertaining to it. I have belonged to several other message boards and forums but apparently none set up like this one. I did not see a section on how to navigate the site either. If someone could help me find the rest of that thread, I would greatly appreciate it.

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Goal Setting

Goal Setting

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Dear Idiot Future Self,

Man, there are a lot of calendar apps out there--Rembember The Milk, 30Boxes, Google Calendar, Yahoo, Remind--but none of them can do very well the one thing for which my brain is totally useless and with which my GTD system struggles: reminding me of things exactly when I need to remember them.

The Ubiquitous Capture problem I have solved. I carry a hipster PDA (thanks, Merlin) and my trusty phone with Jott on the speed dial. At any time and place, my clever present self can delegate work to my idiot future self (IFS).

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