WrideaThis seems like a good idea: an online “idea manager” for recording and brainstorming ideas, either alone or in collaboration with a group. Functions sort of as a wiki crossed with a todo list manager. Try it out — it’s free!Tags: apps tools productivity collaboration ideas webapps Quick Steps Toward Working More

Tackle Any Issue With a List of 100Litemind’s idea about ideas: if you need to come up with ideas, don’t jsut brainstom until you have enough, sit down and come up with 100 ideas. Some will stink, but there’ll be some good ones you wouldn’t have come up with if you hadn’t been…

Uncle Mark’s 2008 Gift Guide and AlmanacEvery year, Uncle Mark of GoodExperience.com puts out a gift guide, with a unique set recommendations for the special people in your life. Inexplicably, he also includes practical notes on running meetings and stoing umbrellas.Tags: advice tips tools technology shopping…

Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at WritingJohn Scalzi gives 10 pointers to people who do’t want to be “writers”, per se, but want to improve their general writing skills.Tags: writing grammar communcation punctuation advice Memory Zero: Go BagsLifeClever gives some useful information on putting together “go bags” for each…

Maintaining momentum: “Why am I doing this?”Curt Rosengren of The M.A.P. Maker offers a quick little tip to help you stay motivated to reach your goals.Tags: motivation goals How to Get Unstuck: Overcoming Writer’s BlockAgentsully of Life Learning Today offers a 7-step plan for getting over writer’s block and getting back on track.Tags…

The Amazing Pocket Tickler SystemDavid Moldawer of LifeClever details his system for getting things done, which relies on a set of index cards, a daily task list, and a pocket timer to keep him moving from task to task in a timely fashion.Tags: productivity, gtd, timemanagement, hipsterpda, indexcards 8 Things You Can Do

The Mobile Productivity Toolbox: 100 Resources to Keep You Productive When on the MoveTruckingAccident.org, a site for truckers, lists 100 web apps, gadgets, services, and articles to help you keep organized, in-touch, and on the ball while you’re traveling.Tags: productivity organization webapps tools…

Productivity Toolbox: 37+ Tools for Taking Action and Getting Things DoneSomething about the number “37″today… SmallFuel Marketing Blog gives us a huge list of books and online apps to help you get motivated, get organized, and get your work done.Tags: productivity gtd tools management 37 Unhabits of Highly Successful ManagersSlacker Manager delivers up…

10 Lesser Known Ways to Increase Productivity Scott Young writes at PickTheBrain about 7 (I know, the title says 10 — you get 30% off for Black Friday, I think) parts of productivity we don’t think of much, including diet, our working rhythm, and the space we work in. Tags: productivity strategy design planning diet…

GTD Mondays: Weekly Assignments GearFire offers up a pretty slick adaptation of the GTD system to student life. Classes are set up as projects, and assignments and pieces of assignments become tasks — with reminders set up as ticklers. Tags: student gtd productivity coursework…

How to Continually Sharpen Your Skills Leo Babauta at Freelance Switch helps keep you on the path of perpetual improvement with 10 tips ranging from studying the work of the masters to studying your own strengths and weaknesses. Tags: creativity education inspiration productivity Organization 101: A Visual Guide to How I Manage the Information in

5 ways to screw up your talk Dr. Mike Kaspari of Getting Things Done in Academia offers this humorous take on giving presentations — specifically, the things we do to screw them up, like going on and on and on and on… Applies not only to academic presentations, but to ANY kind. Tags: presentation communication…

Force Yourself To Save! 15 Painless Ways To Pay Yourself FirstThe Digerati Life offers up a list of tips about building your savings. While some of the advice you’ve heard before — “pay yourself first” — TDL explains how to move from cliche to action.Tags: finance money advice saving A Roadmap to

4 ways to use Wikipedia (hint: never cite it) Wikipedia is a great resource for academic work, though not as a source in a paper. GearFire Student Productivity spells out what you CAN use it for: background information, links to solid sources, and ideas about serching for more information. Tags: wikipedia student research writing papers…

Parental Enthusiasm and Childhood BrandingAdvice from The Simple Dollar for parents struggling to avoid or at least minimize theimpact of the powerful marketing forces directed at their kids. Ideas on how to avoid branded toys and other items and, as they grow, to explain how marketing works.Tags: toys branding parenting children consumerism…