Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google ReaderMicro Persuasion offers an unorthodox take on Google Reader, with instructions to set up, use, and mine Reader like a giant database. With tagging and Google’s search capabilities at your disposal, Reader puts vast amounts of data within easy reach.Tags: productivity googlereader research information…

New Productivity Tool: JUST DO IT ALREADY!!The Executive Assistant reminds us that when allthe organizing, planning, mindmapping, idea capturing, and task listing is done, we still have to roll up our sleeves and JUST DO IT ALREADY!Tags: productivity motivation tasks…

Blogger Interview – Lisa GatesHD BizBlog interviews lifehack.org contributor Lisa Gates. She was recently a guest on Lifehack Live; this interview takes a completely different tack, focussing on her blogging and writing life.Tags: interview blogger 10 Foolproof Tips for Better SleepSleep is often seen as a luxury these days — a guilty…

A Modest Proposal: Learn a New Skill This Holiday at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and LifeLifeClever suggests you take some time this holiday season to learn a new skill, and offers up a few ideas ranging from the sublime (learn a musical instrument) to the silly (yo-yo, anyone?). Why not challenge yourself…

Use any USB stick to ReadyBoost your computerWindows Vista Magazine tells you how to hack Vista’s registry to detect a non-compliant USB drive to use for ReadyBoost. Seems like using a drive that’s too slow wouldn’t help, but this might be useful when Vista misdetects your “Vista-ready” drives.Tags: hack vista readyboost windows memory…

10 Habits of Highly Effective BrainsAlvaro Fernandez in the Huffington Post gives a concise guide to the care and operation of the human brain. Feed it well, exercise it, teach it new tricks, and never, ever let anyone else control your brain!Tags: brain health creativity intelligence education…

David Allen: Three Cheers For Sloth, Indolence, And Procrastination! – Living on The Huffington Post”One of the greatest lessons I have learned and continually must practice is that in order to really be in control, I must surrender. In the martial arts (and golf) things must be held lightly. Grabbing too tight…

Archive Organize Your Life With JottChris Poteet, the new writer at Web Worker Daily, hits the ground running with some great tips on using Jott with other web services like Google Calendar. Jott is an amazing service that transcribes voice messages — it’s free and it works!Tags: jott webapp calendar gtd collect…

The Church of the Latter-Day DudeCelebrate your Dude-like bliss by becoming an ordained Dudeist priest. Join Dudeist luminaries like Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Kurt Vonnegut, Sarah Silverman, and the Dude himself, Jeffrey Lebowski, in telling to world to “just take it easy, man”.Tags: religion humor fun dudeism Time Management #8: ResourcesMark McGuinness of Business…

5 Time-Management TricksMarci Alboher at the New York Times offers 5 simple but effective time-management tips: tame your email, minimize meetings, make interruption-free space for yourself and your work, work around your own hythm, and learnto say no.Tags: productivity time_management tips email 7 Ways to be a better delegatorPenelope Trunk offers tips to…

Make A Pocket-Size Dry Erase Board — VideoLifehack reader Black Velvet Monkey made this great video about turning an index card into a pocket-sized dry-erase board, and expands the idea in some useful and creative ways.Tags: indexcards hack dry-erase gtd productivity 365 (or so) Merlin Mannerisms · The Cranking Widgets BlogWWMMS? (What WOuld…

Hack Your Day – A productivity blog | Using Google Calendar to send free SMSNot sure who this benefits, but the ingenuity of this hack is amazing — use multiple Google Calendar accounts, each with a mobile phone associated for reminders, to send SMS messages for free. Crazy!Tags: free sms hack Cool Tool

The 9 Best Ways to Get Organized by Year’s EndDumb Little Man’s tips for a year-end sweep to get you ready to go in 2008.Tags: advice organization productivity The Simple Dollar » Does Peer Pressure Keep Us From Succeeding?Trent at The Simple Dollar meditates on the ways that peer pressure can hold us…

Tips to make your finals/papers just a bit betterGearfire offers a list of tips for students facing finals this week. These are little things,like writing your final in spelling and rewording to avoid spelling errors, that might push your grade up a few points, giiving you work that little “kick”.Tags: student exam writing studying…

Gmail-template GeneratorGmail doesn’t give an option to save boilerplate text to re-use in your emails, but this tool makes it easy. Click “Play with live preview”, enter in your text, and bookmark the resulting page. Click the boomark and Gmail opens with your text in place.Tags: gmail email template productivity tools…