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This is something I found to be both sacrilegious to GTD and very much a core part of its "capture everything" philosophy.

Over time, I've found that more and more, I need to capture something at any possibly circumstance. Now I usually carry a small pad and pen right in my pocket, but there are times when you don't have access to that, in fact a lot of the time.

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Left alignment in sidebar

The A2 hosting ad and the Search Form are out of alignment with the rest of the sidebar.

I'm an alignment nerd. There, I've said it.

While I'm being anal, you might also want to clean up the title underline in the 43f jobs section (add padding or margin), and remove the redundant title "Online Users" from the sidebar ("Who's Online" says it all).

…still love the design, though.

Inbox Zero series extended

This past week ended up throwing me a couple curve balls, so I only ended up finishing about half of the Inbox Zero articles I'd expected to -- including the very in-demand "Okay, smart ass, enough with the hand-waving and tell me how to actually deal with these 5000 emails" post. Couldn't not deliver that one.

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TOPICS: Admin

Need help in my Phone

Need help with my phone Motorola L6i. I have been given by my friend a blue tooth device headset but sad to say i don't know how to use it. There's no instruction given and no instruction in my phone's manual. How to connect the headset to the phone?

TOPICS: Grabass

Best Clip Utilities

i have been a loyal copypaste user for years, but it's incompatible with more and more apps (like textexpander and typeit4me), and I haven't heard anything about it being compatible with 10.5.

i liked copypaste best when it was pre-YType, so i am looking for a replacement that is similar and easy to use. i know quicksilver has a clipboard, but i'd like something with easy to use hot keys as there is in copypaste.

TIA!

New user 10.5.3

Merlin really makes me laugh during those Mac Break Weekly podcasts, it makes me feel proud to be a 40 year old NPR-listening 2-daughter-having mac-groking software-developing tufte-esque music-obsessed micro-multi-tasking sailboat-racing productivity-oriented social-networking meta-meta kind of person.

Hello and glad to be poking around!

-Brett

glass bead blog: brettsongs.blogspot.com songs: www.brettsongs.com

Really good tool for personal time management

Really good tool for personal time management

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TOPICS: Windows

What are your favorite job search tools?

Over on my blog JobMob, I posted the above question for my readers:

http://jobmob.co.il/blog/ask-the-readers-what-are-your-favorite-job-search-tools/

Which tools, websites, software, etc., have worked for you or your friends?

thanks,

Jacob

Turning projects into procedural documentation

I like the idea of, and use the structure of projects with clearly defined goals. Once a project is complete, if the output/result of it has any kind of ongoing use and maintenance, I'm curious how people handle the transition from project documentation to procedural documentation.

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TOPICS: Projects

Conversation View Based E-mail

Like many things on the iPhone, I realized how much better SMS is on the iPhone after trying to go back and use it on any other phone.

On the "other" phone, I lost all context for the conversation when my sent messages and my received messages were separated from each other, while having messages from other people dispersed in between.

And then I thought to myself.

Self...

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