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Del.icio.us Tag Management?

Right now I have a heaps of tags in del.icio.us where this is only 1 item associated with the tag.

Do people actually try to minimise this? if so, do you have your own tagging standards? or do you just leave them alone and not worry about it?

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Quick question about Keynote (from a non-mac user)

Quick question about Keynote (from a non-mac user)

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Continuous Partial Attention?

Continuous Partial Attention?

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43F Poll: What's your biggest GTD strength and weakness?

Two polls over on the 43f Board:

My own answers?

  • Strength: Collecting.
    Dude. I'm a viking at collecting. Remember I'm the guy who invented writing things down on paper. So. You know.
  • Weakness: Review.
    It's sick that I know know know this is the most important stage of GTD, and I still eat the booger. Need to work on this, big time.

When it comes to GTD, what's your strength and weakness?

Tool send email requests for address updates?

I'm am trying hard to keep my address book up-to-date, and it becomes a more difficult tast as the number of entries grows rapidly.

What would be tremendously helpful is a utility, script, or else, that would email each of the people in my address book and say: "[Premade message from user]. I have your information as such [auto-fill from address book] is this still current? If not please let me know.

That's it, I'm happy to make sure to do the data entry as email replies come back.

Thanks in advance, and please let me know if I'm being at all unclear.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

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43F: Recent MacBreak Podcasts

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MacBreak Weekly

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Over the past few weeks, I've been having a lot of fun participating in the MacBreak video podcast and its little brother, the MacBreak Weekly audio podcast. Leo, Alex, Scott, and the rest of the MacBreakers do a swell job with these shows, and I've enjoyed getting to nerd out a little with them.

If you haven't caught these already, here's a quick catchup of episodes I've been on in the last month or so (reverse chronologically):

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Is there a Web 2.0 app for organizing a job search?

Is there a Web 2.0 app for organizing a job search?

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Homework Assignments: Where do they go?

As a student, I get many homework assignments from reading, to worksheets, to completing problem sets in a text. I was wondering, where should these assignments go in my GTD system?

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