Posts Tagged ‘processing’

Back to Basics: Capture Your Ideas

Does this sound familiar? You’re slowly drifting off to sleep when you come up with a great line for the song or paper you’ve been working on all day. It’s such a great idea, in fact, that you just know you’ll remember it in the morning. Happy to have finally come up with the perfect line, you nod off, smiling and peaceful.

In the morning, of course, it’s gone. All that… » Continue

July 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: capture, idea, inbox, memory, moelskine, notebook, processing, todo | 12 comments»

Back to Basics: Processing

In my first installment of “Back to Basics”, I discussed the importance of your inbox – a single place for collecting all of your inputs for processing. In this installment, we’ll discuss the processing itself – how to turn inputs into action.

In principle, processing is simple. All it means is making a decision about what to do with every piece of information that enters your… » Continue

June 27 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, decision-making, gtd, processing | 1 comment»

Simplifying Your Information Intake

Productivity. We spend more time reading about it, talking about it, writing about it, thinking about it than actually making it happen. We complicate it with a disjointed system of hacks that don’t really work well together, then we decide to simplify it; every year, every month, it’s a vicious cycle for those of us addicted to the cool-aid of productivity and lifehacking that streams forth from the feed… » Continue

March 7 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, feedreader, information, processing, rss | 13 comments»