A program that is built for time management purposes would assist a user in executing the fundamentals, but also allow him/her the freedom to use its features to support their particular time management system.
Ideally, a user should be presented with as clean an interface as possible, with unnecessary features hidden away from view, so that […]

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I am working on a project in which almost everyone around me carries a Blackberry.  My observation as one of the few non-Blackberry users is that many have developed
habits that thwart their productivity.
One sad habit that has developed is that Blackberry users have trained people around them to elevate email to a level of […]

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While many of us are insisting that “we’ll remember” and therefore don’t need to write things down, it appears that Richard Branson has made quite a few comments on the power of carrying a portable notebook at all times:

Quote 1
On how to get ideas for new products: “Always have a notebook in your pocket. […]

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I just read a great post over at the Web Worker Daily Blog.
It essentially has to do with
Capturing in one’s inbox, and how using Outlook has lead to very different ways of maintaining a
Zero Inbox than using Gmail.
The post makes a distinction between Filers and Finders, and how people use each of these […]

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I just read an article that describes the “problem” of capturing everything, in which I think, by the end, the solution turns out to be worse than the original issue.
The article can be found at Merlin Mann’s site — 43 folders –  under the title:
The Problem of Ubiquitous Capture.
The author, Matt Wood,  makes the […]

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As a supplement to the work we are doing this week on Capturing, I thought that I’d share my personal approach to Capturing, and why I consider myself a Green Belt. I will also describe some of the challenges that I have when I capture, and my plans for changing my own practices in this […]

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As
mentioned before, the task of comparing one worker to another in terms of their productivity has become much harder.
However, the results of examining their in-box can give a good insight into how productive they are. In other words, a person who has an in-box of thousands of items is less productive than one […]

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I am reading the #1 New York Times Best Seller -
The Four Hour Work Week and finding it quite entertaining.
As someone who lives in Jamaica, it would seem that I am living the author’s dream to some extent! More on this later, to be sure.
One immediate benefit this book has brought me is […]

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One of the big problems that professionals have in learning how to improve their productivity is to discipline themselves to follow the simple principle of putting items in existence by making them tangible and visible.
Making something “tangible and visible” is the same as writing it down in a place from where it can be reliably […]

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In
an earlier post, I talked about the fact that there are certain key components that need to be included in an effective time management system.
Component #1 is that of “Capturing”.
Definition
To understand Capturing, it’s best to slow down a single process that occurs hundreds of times in the day of an average profession.
The process […]

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