The Personal Productivity Show #021 (MP3 - 19MB - 56min)
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As part of our efforts to get clarity on aspects of the Getting Things Done (GTD) approach, Cameron and I had a chat with GTD guru and staff trainer at the David Allen Company, Jason Womack.
Apart from travelling 200-days a year to […]

Buzz mailed me this morning telling me about the new ActiveWords agent for MindManager 6.0. There’s a cool video demonstration on the site and the tool looks fantastic. Requires (of course) Activewords and MindManager 6.0.
I told Buzz I’ve also been using their Gmail agent a lot lately and it rocks. I can open up […]

Alvin from the Life Coaches Blog has this great story :
Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly…at first.

Being an animation student, one book I read was Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones, a pioneer animator and […]

OK so… a few months ago, I re-built my Tablet. This time I had my wits about me enough to create a System Restore Point in case I frakked up the machine (that should read “for when I frakked up”). So… we’ve got a blackout on here at the moment (thank god for batteries and […]

The Productivity Show #020 (MP3 - 8MB - 23min)
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Chuck Frey is the author or the
MindMapping Software Weblog and the Mind Mapping Software E-book. We chat about how to get the most out of your Mind Mapping tools.

It’s true and scientifically proven that you can slack off from certain things and actually get them done faster! Some clever folks at the U of Arizona worked it out in this paper.
Abstract:

We show that, in the context of Moore’s Law, overall productivity can be increased for large enough computations by `slacking’ […]

The Productivity Show #019 (MP3 - 13.2MB - 37min)
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My guest today is Karan Bavandi from Optimal Access, discussing Version 5 of their souped up browser (or “unified desktop” as he likes to call it) - OPTIMAL DESKTOP.

Optimal Desktop is an interesting product. A bit scary the first time I looked […]

From BoingBoing :
Chandler is a free and open personal organizer being developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation, with design by Andy Hertzfeld of the original MacOS GUI team. Eventually it’s meant to integrate email as well as calendaring and to-do items, but […]

Pando is:
is a tiny app that lets you email any size file or folder to anyone, free.

Currently in closed beta testing but sounds like a cool idea. I’ve often in the past had to send a large file to someone and haven’t had a simple way of doing it. IM transfers […]

On Episode #017 and Episode #018, I’ve talked a little about my process of using the slightly quieter time around New Year (the week before and the week immediately after) to clean up and make current my personal productivity system.
As regular readers and listeners will know, I use a system that is based on David […]