Ah, the lowly index card. So basic, so common, so cheap — so useful. Index cards are one of the most versatile parts of the productive person’s toolkit — small enough to travel anywhere, cheap enough to keep hundreds or even thousands on hand at all times, and basic enough that one never hesitates to…

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…

I find Wikipedia to be a great starting point for online research, but you can’t really use it in your writing. Scholastici.us has 20 other suggestions that you could actually reference legitimately. Encylopedia Britannica – I know it seems awfully “old school” but this site is an excellent source of information and much more…

It’s back to school time, and it’s time to make good on the promises you made yourself last year to be more organized this time around! One of the stumbling blocks I see most often in my students is taking — and keeping — good notes for their classes. Ideally, you’d like to have…

With the rise of RSS, website content is increasingly found far afield from the websites where it originates. And there’s nothing wrong with that — RSS away! But for those of you who read lifehack.org’s post in your feed reader, as well as those of you new to lifehack.org or longtime readers who might not…

I’m a big Wikipedia fan. The number of times I’ve said, “Just Wiki it” is ridiculous. It’s practically a bet settler for me and almost always comes up with great information. Ilya Lichtenstein suggests 9 other uses for The free online encyclopedia. In some parts of the world you can’t reference Wikipedia for essays, but that…

Wikis are very useful for organizing information between groups of people. If you want a really good, quick, “get up to speed” tutorial on wikis, watch this movie by Common Craft. The thing is, once you’re sold on this, you’ve gotta determine when and why to use a wiki in your workplace? What value…

In our lives we have all kinds of information that we need to keep track of — to-do lists, gift ideas, books we want to read, exercise or food logs, a budget, phone numbers, a weekly schedule, our goals — the list is endless. The problem is finding a good place to keep all of…

I had this idea that I bet Leon and the others can riff on. Basically: there are plenty of tools out there for lots of aspects of life. Let’s make sure we propose the proper tool (or our take on a good tool) for the right job. From managing our tasks and priorities to determining…

ProductWiki is a wiki (duh!) that lets users add unbiased reviews of various consumer products. The aim of ProductWiki is to have detailed, exhaustive, “straight from the consumer” reviews of consumer goods. The premise behind the site is exciting and the site is filled with many excellent reviews. ProductWiki is a web-based…

I read a great article in Beth’s Blog about tools for collaboration and note taking for conferences and non-profits. It struck a note, especially since it called out my event. For PodCamp Boston, we’re using PBWiki as our organization tool. We’re using it for information delivery (tricky, so we launched a…

You know how it goes: everyone around you gets all giddy about a new technology, so you go and check it out. Sure, you admit that it looks and feels neat, but then you think, “Well, what will I do with it? I felt that way for a long time about wikis. The reason was…

Sometimes email and standard content management system may decrease your employees productivity because the amount of time on organizing and managing information are usually high. Especially when you require a collboration tool, this is where email fall apart. Paul Wormeli, executive director of the Ashburn, Va.-based Integrated Justice Information System (IJIS) Institute suggested tools like…

Joel A. Farrell from IBM has a great article on wiki can be an useful tool for groups to get work done faster. He describes the differences between document management system, and editable wiki how those works within the enterprise settings: …Wikis are simple, both to use and to set up. The original goal was to…

Over at minzemac.com, the blogger introduces his method of using his iPod Shuffle as GTD system, by installing Portable Firefox and GTDTiddlyWiki. After that, he can go to any computer to access his task list – Mac or PC, as the portable firefox is compatiable with both. iPod Shuffle can also save other files…