Archive for June, 2006

Distraction Free Writing

Download Squad pointed me to this Mac application called WriteRoom. The trick is simple: fill the page with ONLY the screen you’ll be typing on, and do autosaves the whole time you’re typing. It’s perfect if you need to buckle down and focus on writing and can’t afford the distractions.

I like that you can edit the colors, the fonts, and everything about the look and feel, but that at the… » Continue

June 30 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: mac, Productivity, software, writeroom, writing | 11 comments»

Budgeting Easily with PearBudget Spreadsheet

PearBudget is a free spreadsheet for budgeting and expense tracking. Simply enter your estimation of your spending every year, record your expenses with your receipts throughout the month - then it will give you a detail analysis automatically. It has pretty attractive design so you won’t get bored with it. One advantage is that you can bring this spreadsheet along with your USB stick, open it with Portable OpenOffice

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June 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: budget, Money | 4 comments»

Entrepreneurial Help and Advice

Sudha Jamthe is a serial entrepreneur, with a lot of experience developing ideas and turning them into companies. Her blog offers a wealth of advice based on experience and steeped with detailed instruction. As lots of readers of Lifehack.org are movers and shakers with all kinds of projects and ideas, I thought you’d find the advice relevant. And even if you’re not looking for a million dollars in angel funding… » Continue

June 30 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: business, Communication, entrepreneur, funding, venture | 6 comments»

The Ancient Writings of David Allen

Ricky Spears has spent some time to develop a list of old writing by the GTD guru David Allen. All those articles are removed from the site but Ricky retrieved it from archive.org. From the articles, you will see how David’s work evolved into his books:

…I was too tired yesterday afternoon to do “real” work so I decided to take a little time off and do a little “panning for… » Continue

June 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd | 3 comments»

Discover your 4-Fold Capacity

I worked in retail for a short time, and detail business that retail is, the experience created some lingering impressions for me. One was a fascination with taking inventory, and projecting the potential margins that inventory could represent.

In the retail business I learned to consider assets as a means to an end; the ‘end’ was product and service. My shop inventory created a product experience for the customer which exponentially… » Continue

June 29 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: capacity, coaching, mentoring | 8 comments»

7 Finance Tips From a Guy Who’s Broke

Because I’m dead center of trying to figure out my own personal financial Rubik’s Cube, and because I’ve been listening every day to the Financial Aid Podcast, I’ve had finance hacks on the brain. Besides, Graeme wanted me to talk about them, too. So, here goes 7 tips on finance from a guy who’s broke:

Keep the change- Whenever you pay for anything with

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June 29 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: advice, budget, budgeting, finance, financialaid, financialaidpodcast, Money, spending, tips | 9 comments»

Coffee Break helps your memory

Good news that Researchers at the MIT found out regular breaks are key to help your memory. They found out that brain will replay the information that it recently gathered during break time (and the test subject is of course lab rats). Break is good, and of course sleep will be better for information consolidation. That’s why students should not study overnight:

… Previous research found a replay pattern occurring during… » Continue

June 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: memory, Productivity | 3 comments»

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

A interesting manual I found today is called How To Ask Questions The Smart Way. This is for people who asks question on the Net, especially on computer/technical questions. He tells you what you should or should not do in the forums or mailing list - how to describe your technical problem etc. This is a fun read, not that because it is written by a hacker, but because it… » Continue

June 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: question, software | no comments»

Design an Online Workflow

There are countless wonderful, free, online tools out there that help you with productivity, and give you a pretty good way to manage your projects, your small business, and more. But how do you design your workflow, such that you actually make use of the tools consistently, and to their best effect? Let’s set something up.

First, let’s make this a system you can use to manage your projects, personal or… » Continue

June 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: 37signals, ajax, java, jotspot, pixoh, Productivity, software, tools, web2.0, zohoshow | 40 comments»

DIY Planner Wants Writers!

I do a lot of writing about productivity, self-improvement, and creativity. Some of it, I put here. Some of it, I put on my own site, and then some more, I put over at D*I*YPlanner.com, which is a great site with all kinds of great stuff, like downloadable planner pages for your paper planner of choice (including Hipster PDA, I might add!).

Well, Doug’s wife just had a baby, and between… » Continue

June 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: callforwriters, diyplanner, helpwanted, hipsterpda, Productivity, writer, writerwanted | no comments»

Life Hack Podcast Episode 3- Interview with Margaret Olson

Life Hack Podcast- Ep3- Listening to Podcasts, Google Calendar Tips, an Interview with Margaret Olson of Plum.

Well folks, here it is: the 3rd installment of the Life Hack podcast. This episode covers some of the articles you might’ve seen on the site over the last week, as well as a full interview with Margaret Olson, CTO and cofounder of Plum, a bookmarking type tool that helps you create collections of… » Continue

June 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: chrisbrogan, grasshopperfactory, leonho, Lifehack, margaretolson, mp3, newmedia, plum, Podcast | no comments»

Small Talk and Networking section at Howto.Lifehack

We have some more materials online at howto.lifehack.org -there are two more sections, Small Talk and Networking available. Those two pages are pretty handy if you are going to functions and conference where you need to talk to people. In Small Talk section, we have examples of icebreakers you could ask to open up the conversation. Networking page has some good tips on increasing your people network. Tips like… » Continue

June 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, Lifehack | no comments»

How to get songs off your iPod with iTunes

iPod is cool and nice, but sometimes the inflexiblity of restoring my MP3s is troublesome. MP3Buzz has a how-to by using iTunes, you could get your songs off from your iPod. This is pretty handle where you have lost your copy on the PC and want to restore them:

3. Now we are ready to go find our music on our iPod.
After hidden files are visible, you should see a new… » Continue

June 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: ipod, itunes, mp3, software, tips | 1 comment»

GTD Implementation Ideas With Backpack

Patrick Rhone has written a great post on his GTD setup in Backpack. Backpack is a simple todo online system with ability of attaching notes, files, and images. With his detail description on his setup, you can have a very effective GTD system online so that you can access it everywhere with Internet access:

Several days ago I had a revelation about my current use of Backpack as a GTD… » Continue

June 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, online | no comments»

3 Easy Dieting Success Tips

Weight Loss Daily has posted an article on easy and success tips to excel your diet. Beverley Brooke suggested three tips - Drink 8-10 glasses of water each day, eat breakfast, and eat at least 3 meals and snacks each day. Sounds like not in diet at all? - actually eating frequently will increase your metabolism:

…This can be one of the hardest adjustments to make. After all, you are busy!… » Continue

June 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: diet, health | 6 comments»

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