Archive for May, 2005

More tips and discussions on using GTDTiddlyWiki

After the wide spread of GTDTiddlyWiki news from various lifehacking site (lifehacker, 43 Folders and here lifehack.org), GTD/lifehack fans have been wild on saving this amazing one html javascripted file and they can do GTD and print out 3×5 cards.

Here are some tips:

Remember to go to Option on the side bar and disable animations. This speed up my productivity on using this tool
Go ahead and rename the

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May 17 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 6 comments»

Free Download of The Day: EssentialPIM

Does Outlook cost too much? Or it is too heavy weighted? Look no further. Get this PIM for free - EssentialPIM. It provides two version - Full version which installs to your machine, and USB version which can install to your USB flash drive

If you are switching from Outlook. It allows you to automatically import existing data from Outlook, Windows Address Book and CSV. Main feature includes:

Tasks- good looking… » Continue

May 17 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»

Give your moleskine a better life - tips for improving your handwriting

Moleskine notebook is nice and tidy. But wouldn’t you want to write better on your moleskine to match with it? Look no further - go and read the article by Dyas A. Lawson on tips for improving your handwriting.

He said that if you are using the right muscle groups from your body, your writing will be smooth and flow better:

As you’ve probably surmised, the “right muscles” are not those in… » Continue

May 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»

Making Cheapster PDA

Remember when you were a kid you used to make some pretty booklet from some draft papers? Actually there some similarity between that and a poor-man PDA. Here is a good info of making a 16 page booklet from a standard paper:

You may need to view the biggest version to make sense of it. The method is from Keri Smith’s book Living Out Loud. Requires one sheet of A4… » Continue

May 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 4 comments»

38 Ways on winning an Argument

There is a page that talks about 38 ways (!!) on how to win an argument. Not that I 100% agreed on those methods (it is more lead towards dark side…). I guess I want to pass it to you and you can do the judgement yourself and see if you want to use any of those. If you are desperate enough, you may want to win faster on arguments… » Continue

May 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»

Tips on travelling and batteries

Do you remember a time your mobile’s battery is running low when you need to call someone? I think it happens a lot. jkOnTheRun has posted a pretty good article on battery charging “planning” and tips:

… Cell phones- if you have a car get a car power adapter for your phone which are very cheap now. Get in the habit of always keeping the phone charging while driving and… » Continue

May 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 5 comments»

The summary of many financial books: Work towards financial independence

There is a article surfaced from the Internet recently named “Get Rich Slowly!”. “Slowly?” you may ask. You may want to get rich quickly, but in reality usually get rich quickly falls into two category - Extremely high risk, or hrm, a scam.

The author J.D. summarize many financial planning books into four steps. And I want to summarize his summary to produce a juicy life tips:

Step One: Prepare the Foundation

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May 15 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

Save time on Firefox with GreaseMonkey

Updated: 2005/07/22

Introduction to GreaseMonkey:
Sometimes when you use a web service, you thought wouldn’t be faster if the developer has added this button so that you don’t have to go thru all those navigations.

Like me, I find it very harsh by not having a delete button in my Gmail account. Everytime I need to delete an email, I need to go to the pull down menu and select “Move to… » Continue

May 14 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 24 comments»

Ten Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills

Bert over Open Loops has posted a article called “Ten Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills“. This is a extremely good article, and it points to the meaty tips concisely.

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Use appropriate volume – Use a volume that is appropriate for the setting. Speak more softly when you are alone and close. Speak louder when you are speaking to larger groups or across larger spaces.
Pronounce your words correctly

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May 14 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

A simple yet effective service: Ta-da List

One of the service I want to recommmend today is Ta-da List. It is a simple yet fast to-do manager. It can prioritize on-fly, add todos easily. It serves its purposes. Bear in mind it has a limitation of 10 lists only, but it should be enough for GTD. Try it out!… » Continue

May 14 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Reading for Friday: Free 35 pages on managing incoming email

On top of the setup I suggested this week on Six setup to save time in email, you may get the additional information on how to manage your inbox by downloading the Free PDF report on:

…methods that will allow any user to cope with increasing amounts of incoming e-mail. This includes a simple method to solve the hassle of incoming spam….

Email is one of the time waster if it… » Continue

May 13 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs and Its usage

One of the most popular site recently (within del.icio.us) is the online free download and service of graph paper. Not only it provides 8.5 x 11″ paper (letter size) and 11 x 17″ paper there. You can also custom all those parameters and create your own template.

In full customization page, you can specify PDF Document Size (inches), Minimum Border Width (inches), Grid Line Weight (points), Grid Spacing (lines/inch)… » Continue

May 12 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Organize booklets, receipt, CD and instruction pamphlets

Evilsoft.org has posted a way of organize and tidy up all those booklet, CD driver, receipt from your gadgets:

Well, this leads to a problem. All these things come with instructions booklets, adapters, driver CDs, screen covers, receipts, and a bunch of other crap. Now, I know that I could keep the CDs in one place, and the adapters with all my other cables and crap, but I’m finding that with… » Continue

May 12 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Six setup to save time in email

Sometimes it’s really hard to save time in emails (especially emails in corporate emails which really needed to reply). I used to scroll through and search the Inbox for email I need to reply. What a time wasting to wait for the search. After I hit Sent and Receive buttons, I then receive couple more emails that need to attend.

Now I have used this setup myself on my corporate… » Continue

May 11 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 4 comments»

Under 20mins Clean up tips

Frankly who want to spend couple of hours to clean up the house? Real Simple has a good cleaning article on how to clean your house under 20mins (19mins to be exact). It outlines all area within the house such as Kitchen, Bedroom, Family Room, Living Room, Foyer cleaning. For example in Bedroom, you could:

BEDROOM, 6 1/2 minutes daily
Make your bed right before or after your morning shower. A… » Continue

May 11 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

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