Posts Tagged ‘information management’

The Quick & Dirty Guide to Personal Wikis

Personal wikis were a big fad for productivity geeks for a while, but that seems to have toned down a lot through 2008. Wikis are still incredibly useful, and can make you more productive. You can think of a personal wiki like a bit of a catch-all binder. Whether you want to manage personal information, use it as a freelance web-worker, or to manage your corporate work, this article will introduce… Continue reading

July 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: information management, wiki | 17 comments»

Your Guide to Getting Productive with Gmail: Apps & Extensions

We've covered the basics of productive email use with Gmail. By now, with an average email load, you should be able to power through it all within 15 minutes. But that doesn't mean you can't cut down on even more time, or make Gmail an even more powerful application, with the help of a few browser extensions and even some desktop applications. To quickly recap: in part one we looked at… Continue reading

June 30 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: browser, email, gmail, information management | 2 comments»

Your Guide to Getting Productive with Gmail: Managing the Flow

Last time we redirected all of our email accounts to the one place, our central email hub at Gmail. Once you have all your accounts trickling into Gmail, you've got to manage that flow of information so that a) it's possible to get through all of your email in fifteen minutes or less and b) it's easy to find next week, next month and next year. The Inbox is Sacred You… Continue reading

June 25 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, gmail, information management | 10 comments»

Your Guide to Getting Productive with Gmail: Account Consolidation

Gmail is a powerful tool, but many users of this service aren't tapping into its full potential. To help you get more productive and get the most out of Gmail, I'm going to spend the next few articles talking about the most effective features of the software and the techniques and practices you can use to make the most of it. In this first installation, we'll talk about account consolidation. This… Continue reading

June 23 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, gmail, information management | 21 comments»

Getting Away from the Daily Digital Noise: A List of Time-tested Classics

FriendFeed, Twitter, email, Skype, Messenger, Blackberries and iPhones, blogs and e-zines. It's all a little bit overwhelming sometimes, right? We've looked again and again at various ways to escape the barrage of online content so we can get more work done - but never so we can take a break and reconnect with other content. Perhaps, the kind that comes under the category of "literature." Let's face facts; there is some great… Continue reading

June 2 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: digital overload, information management, literature | 17 comments»

7 Ways to Use Evernote

Last week, Lifehack founder Leon Ho introduced me to the beta note taking application Evernote. Evernote boasts a variety of features that make it an excellent application, including automatic synchronization between the web and your other devices, tagging and sorting features, an online client that makes it accessible from anywhere, and a search feature that can even search text stored within images. From the developers themselves: Evernote allows you to easily… Continue reading

May 26 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: information management, notetaking, web applications | 57 comments»

What’s Missing in Productivity Today?

This month, we asked Lifehack.org contributors -- and you, our readers -- to think about the things that are missing in today's productivity systems. Not only the areas where the "Big Name" systems fall short, but the gaps in our own systems, the places where we as individuals fall down.

The Lifehack.org community rose to the challenge, offering a variety of thought-provoking posts and comments that… Continue reading

March 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, contact-management, failure, gtd, information management, perfectionism, Productivity, software, time-management, tips | 9 comments»