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Lifehack Digest for March 14

Develop Perfect Memory With the Memory Palace Technique”The Memory Palace is one of the most powerful memory techniques I know. It’s not only effective, but also fun to use — and not hard to learn at all.”Tags: memory learning 36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work”Make your resume stand out by using a beautiful…

Lifehack Digest for March 11

9 Reasons Why Getting Things Done Sucks!Organize IT takes on the GTD system with relish. Some of the points are weak — like the impossibility of emptying your head, which is a bit too literalist — but some are spot on — like “It’s David Allen’s system”, not *yours*.Tags: gtd productivity systems…

Lifehack Digest for March 7

Ebook – The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive AdvantageMichael Lee Stallard, whose book “Fired Up or Burned Out” I reviewed positively a couple weeks back, has an ebook entitled “The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage” for free download. Check it out!Tags: connection relationships ebook…

Lifehack Digest for February 24

Feeling Stuck? 100 Ways to Change your LifeCan you change our life in 20 minutes? Wise Bread thinks so. Set a timer for 20 minutes, sit down, and write a list of 100 goals — careers you want, places to see, people to meet, whatever. Tap into desires you didn’t know you had, so…

Lifehack Digest for February 22

10 Ways to Teach Yourself to Be OrganizedSmart advice on getting organized, ranging from scheduling time to declutter to getting your papers in order.Tags: organization, productivity, schedule…

Lifehack Digest for February 19

Inbox Heaven: The Ultimate Email SetupNick Cernis at Put Things Off details a complete productivity system built around the advanced features of Gmail.Tags: productivity, email. web-app, g-mail, inbox…

Lifehack Digest for February 14

Eight Secrets of Effective Online NetworkingWritten for non-profits, Tech Soup offers pretty comprehensive information for organizations looking to add social networking to their marketing strategies.Tags: business communication networking online community socialnetworking…

Lifehack Digest for January 28

Stop Procrastination NowUseful free e-book from FruitfulTime, who sell a task management program. The book is full of useful tips to help prevent you from putting off important tasks. It downloads with a copy of the software, but there’s no obligation to buy or even try it.Tags: procrastination, ebook, productivity…

Lifehack Digest for January 25

TaskoA new online task manager with an interesting concept — lists are kept in plain text for swapping back and forth from your desktop.Tags: gtd apps webapp tasks productivity 5 Challenges of Working From Anywhere And How To Overcome ThemGeared at freelancers, these tips should apply to anyone — students abroad, travelers, mobile…

Lifehack Digest for January 10

Note taking made easyHack Your Day gives a pretty thorough review of Übernote, a new online note-taking service. I’ve been meaning to have a closer look at this one for you, but now I don’t have to — Hack Your Da has doe a good job of explaining the finer points.Tags: web-apps notes…

Lifehack Digest for January 9

The Four Laws of Simplicity, and How to Apply Them to LifeLeo of Zen Habits gives us the 4 Laws of SImplicity: collect, choose, eliminate, organize. He goes on to explain how to apply these rules to various contexts, like cleaning your closets or keeping your worklife manageable.Tags: advice productivity organization simplicity…

Lifehack Digest for January 8

How do I hack the information overload of shopping?Over in our forums, gpg poses an interesting question: Now that the Internet has put so much product information within easy reach, how do we handle it all and still find time to buy and use stuff? Pop over and give us all a hand with…

Lifehack Digest for January 7

How to Write a Fascinating Thesis StatementGreat advice from studenthacks.org for students looking forward to another semester of paper-writing. Your thesis sets the tone for the whole essay. The keys to a great thesis are passion about your topic and focus, focus, focus.Tags: research student writing termpaper David Allen gives

Lifehack Digest for January 3

10 Golden Lessons from Albert EinsteinIf you find inspiration from quotes by especially smart people, new blog LifeTweak has a collection from the smartest: Albert Einstein. Like: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”Tags: quotes einstein inspiration…

Lifehack Digest for January 1

The Glory, Bliss and How-to of Screen Scraping for RSSRead/Write Web has a screencast video showing you how to use Dapper to create an RSS feed for any site.Tags: rss tools howto tutorial data…