Category Archives: Equipment

Why You Need a Batphone…NOW!

Posted on September 5, 2011 by fwade_admin

If you have so many sources of interruptions, including phone calls, email messages, tweets and SMS’ that you don’t know what to manage and when, then you need a Batphone. There’s a cool article on the TimeBack Management website on … Continue reading →

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Dezhi Wu on the Calendar Tools We Really Need #4

Posted on September 2, 2011 by fwade_admin

A major focus of Wu’s research as outlined in Temporal Structures in Individual Time Management: practices to enhance calendar tool design, is on the paucity of tools that exist to manage our schedules. She decries the fact that electronic calendars … Continue reading →

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Finding Software that Links Goals to Habits

Posted on August 26, 2011 by fwade_admin

I found an interesting program that connects goals with not only tasks, but the habits that need to change to make them happen. On a consulting call with a client earlier today, she bemoaned the fact that managers were allowing … Continue reading →

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An “Up” from Jawbone

Posted on July 22, 2011 by fwade_admin

An interesting post from the Fast Company website might be the beginning of some of the problems we have in measuring time management upgrades. The product is a sensor that looks like a wristband, and can be used to track … Continue reading →

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A Manipulate-able Calendar

Posted on July 6, 2011 by fwade_admin

In earlier posts, I stepped into the future and imagined what it would be like to have a calendar that sat inside your watch, and projected a calendar in front of you in the form of a virtual touch-screen that … Continue reading →

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A Circular Schedule

Posted on July 4, 2011 by fwade_admin

This is something new. Most of us think of schedules in linear terms, the way we think of calendars and diaries.  Along comes the Muji Chronotebook to change all that, with the first circular daily schedule I have ever seen. … Continue reading →

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My Blackberry Update #1

Posted on June 22, 2011 by fwade_admin

Background: As you may know, I spent months describing all the ways in which I observed a relatively new phenomena – smartphone abuse.  I then embarked on a process to choose one for myself in a way that I hoped … Continue reading →

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Turning Off Email Downloads

Posted on June 1, 2011 by fwade_admin

This is an article written three whole years ago (such a LONG time) that advocates turning off email downloads to your smartphone:  Ten reasons to turn off email notifications to your phone. It makes a great case for processing email … Continue reading →

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More on Paper Use

Posted on May 20, 2011 by fwade_admin

An avid reader of this site sent me the following comment: There is one thing that stands out to me, however, and that is that you seem to link using paper with using memory. I write everything down so that … Continue reading →

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Hard vs Soft Scheduled Items

Posted on April 29, 2011 by fwade_admin

Professionals who undertake the discipline of Scheduling at higher skill levels (Orange and Green belts) have their calendar as the central point of focus (rather than their memory, or lists of different varieties.) They place most activities directly into an … Continue reading →

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