At the center of just about every personal productivity system are lists – GTD has it’s context lists, Pomodoro has it’s action inventory and daily to-do lists, todoodlist has, well, the todoodlist, and so on. But there are a lot of different kinds of lists besides your task or to-do list that can…

Who doesn’t like free stuff? And if we’re talking about stuff that will actually help you out in the long run, it’s hard to find a reason to turn it down. Free books, for example, are more than worth their price, especially if they are good reference materials. But sometimes it can be hard…

If your’re researching on the web, check out these site and apps put together by the Online Education Database. It’s a great list when you know you can’t use Wikipedia. As good as it is, no university will trust it. Add to this list Footnote.com and we’re in business. Artcyclopedia – If you’re looking for information…

If first impressions count, then you are who Google says you are. Your reputation is the first 3 pages of search engine hits. The internet and its search engines have become so powerful, available and user-friendly that your reputation is becoming defined by what the first 3 pages of yahoo or google search hits turns…

Blogger Adam Gurno has shared his system on bookmarking books using post-it flags. He calls it vertical cross-reference. Sounds like a complicated idea? It is not: … Before I run off to write the code, I’ll take 15 seconds and put a set of same-color flags near the XmFree in the index, the XmFree page, and…