Posts Tagged ‘workspace’

10 Hacks to Improve Your Home Office Productivity

If you work from home, the central part of your work life is the home office. For some, that means the kitchen table, but most of us assign a specific room to be the base of operations and (try to) do our work from there each day.

Given that we must take into consideration strategy before tactics, it stands to reason that we should make it a room… » Continue

April 25 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: creativity, focus, home, ideas, office, workspace | 19 comments»

10 Steps to a Zen-like Working Environment

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans Hoffman

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau

For today’s knowledge workers, every distraction is a drain on productivity and sanity. Every ringing phone, instant message, flashing email reminder, pile of papers, cluttered sticky notes and phone messages and knick knacks and memo posted on the wall –… » Continue

June 7 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: desk, habit, Productivity, simplicity, workspace | 22 comments»

Manage your web-based projects with Workspace

Workspace is a online development environment that facilitates the complete management of your Web-based projects. With a syntax highlighting editor built right in, it provides the ability to edit text, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Java, Perl, SQL and other types of files directly on a remote server. Finding and managing those files is made easy with a cutting-edge file management utility embedded right in the app. With this utility, users can… » Continue

April 13 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Management, Technology, workspace | 1 comment»

Home decor design tips

Normal Room is a Web site that lets users submit images of various rooms in their homes. Normal Room has amassed a large collection of designs from countries around the world. I think this is really unique and great resource if you are thinking of redecorating, building a home, setting up your office or studio, or just looking for ideas on how to make your workspace more… » Continue

January 18 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: design, home, homeoffice, workspace | 10 comments»

Ask Readers: Working from Home Myths?

It comes to my attention of a blog post - Rob Sanheim talks about his friends’ misconceptions on his working from home style. Comments like:

Oh, you must watch your kids/pets/tv/chia pet all day, then, right?
You have less distractions.
You can work whenever you want.
You can save a ton on tax deductions!
OMG!! Working from home must be like heaven on earth

Some of you who work from home may yell - “No… » Continue

November 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: home, workspace, workstyle | 12 comments»

Rethink Your Workspace

Gretchen Rubin is back with her Wednesday helpful idea. This time, it’s a quiz to see if your workspace is driving you nuts. Based on her readings from within the book, A PATTERN LANGUAGE, Gretchen identifies a bunch of things that will ensure you have a workspace that you consider peaceful. Here are a few:

there’s a wall behind you (so no one can sneak up behind you).
there’s a

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September 20 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: happinessproject, homeoffice, office, workspace | 1 comment»

The Soul of Business

When people speak about the soul — outside of a purely religious context — they’re usually referring to the qualities of something (or someone) that they see as fundamental to its identity. The word “soul” is shorthand for the innermost, truest or most obviously unique nature of whatever or whoever they are referring to.

Used in this way, the word can apply to people (where it means whatever they feel is… » Continue

June 19 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: anxiety, attitude, balance, behavior, civilization, civilized-work, corporate-culture, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Management, organization, performance, soul, stress, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workspace | no comments»

Clean Up Your Wires

A few days ago, Lifehacker ran a nice Hack Attack about cleaning up all the cords in your work area. Based on all the comments we received about the USB cord, it seemed a good reason to go back and point people to this illustrated how-to on cleaning up the wires in your work area.

The Cordless Workspace - [Lifehacker]… » Continue

June 16 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: cordless, hack, hacks, Lifehack, office, worklife, workspace | no comments»