Jason Santa Maria wrote a good article on how to maintain motivation, which based on his experience. He has been solo and work from home for a while, and this is one of the few environments that hard to get motiviated. You do not have team members to encourage you, and you definitely do not…

Steve Pavlina has posted an pretty interesting post on his thoughts on sleeping and wake up early. An approach that works for him is: The optimal solution for me has been to combine both approaches. It’s very simple, and many early risers do this without even thinking about it, but it was a mental breakthrough…

Introduction Recently I started to found out it is not feasible to purchase all those 3×5 cards for my task list (and it is hard to feed into my printer!). I rather want to buy some standard papers and then cut them out. I spent some time on designing a template that suit this need. Today I…

Here is my creation on templates which can help you on your note-making, mind mapping, design etc: Online Graph Grid Paper PDF Generator (beta) I have hacked this myself for my own use a while ago, but I think at the moment it is pretty useful to release it. By default it should suit for many people…

Due to the high number of readers commented about what exactly is GTD (Getting Things Done), David & Co. has just responded with a web page that provides an official definition of this term: … Simple yet profoundly effective, it embodies the radically common sense notion that with a complete and current inventory of…

Do you find once you have lost something and want to find it, you have spent a lot out them searching it. After you have found it, you may think why you have spent so much time on it. Help? Look no further. There is a pretty interesting web site of mentioning the Twelve Principles off…

TaskToy is a new task management web system which is inspired by the book Getting Things Done by David Allen. It try to keep the simplest interface (You will see it is a very basic interface) but it does a pretty good job. It has context lists, project lists and quick links. Also it has…

Some highlights on posts from this week: Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong – Want a good juicy steak? Download of the day: FreeMind – Very good tools to map your thoughts from brain to information. Getting Things Done with “Deleteâ€? – Don’t afaird to delete stuff – It will increase your…

Robert Brown over “A Work In Progress” has posted a pretty interesting tips column on grilling. After you have read those several tips, you should be much better on handling the grill. One of the shocking tip for me is: . Flip Early, Flip Often. This is the big shocker. It was hard to imagine doing…

In Google Labs, they recently added new idea – “Personalize Your Homepage”. You can add stuff under the normal Google search box: Gmail Stock Market New York Times BBC News Google News Weather Wired News Slashdot Movies Driving Directions Show quotes Word of the Day There aren’t too many options to choose from yet, but I guess it is pretty decent if you are using Gmail. And…

Today download of the day is called FreeMind which is a free mind mapping software which is written in Java. FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of…

Sometimes it is so hard to delete stuff. However sometimes it maybe the only ways to get things done. To-Done has written an article called Getting Things Done with “Delete” which built around this theme. To be simple and easier to organize, you need to remove anything that you don’t need. He extended this…

GasBuddy + Google Maps = a interactive map with gas prices! Engineers over ahding.com came up with a pretty good idea on finding gas price around your area. Choose Regular or Diesel Fuel, then choose your state and city. Voila! I wish I have something like this in Australia…

For the one who got iPod, beside listening to music what else do you use iPod for? For me the time that I spent on iPod over 90% of the time are listening to music and audio books. kottke.org provided 50 fun things you can do with your iPod. Most of them are limited to normal iPod…

Jonathan has posted up some plugins for MacOSX Tiger: Save-in-Safari for GTDTiddlyWiki: “This is a small Internet Plug-In for Safari to allow TiddlyWikis to save themselves.” GTD TiddlyWiki Dashboard Hack: “This is a quick hack to get the GTDTiddlyWiki into the Dashboard in Mac OS X Tiger.” The Dashboard hack looks pretty neat but I haven’t got Tiger…