Category Archives: Tools – Productivity

Choosing My First Smartphone (for Productivity’s Sake)

If you are a frequent reader of this site you will know that I have questioned at length the unproductive practices and habits that have arisen around smartphones. With that in mind, I have decided to start a quest to … Continue reading

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An Update from Jamaica

It’s been a while since I’ve posted due to one significant interruption — civil unrest here in Jamaica. I won’t rehash the reasons why it’s happening, as the news reports have been doing a fairly good job of that.  But … Continue reading

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Bad Cell-Phone Habits

I recently wrote an article on the Stepcase LifeHack website that speaks to the ways in which bad time management habits are becoming enshrined in companies that have adopted new cellphone technology.  Click here to access the article entitled:   “Fight … Continue reading

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Stress, Time Management and the Recession

I just completed a white paper that I hope my readership finds useful (but it might be a bit basic for longtime readers of the blog.) Stress, Time Management and the Recession You can use the link below to pass … Continue reading

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iPhone Withdrawal

A journalist/blogger, Topher, is undergoing sever Tech withdrawal by not using his smartphone for (gasp) an entire week. Follow jos journey back to the land of the techno-dinosaurs by reading his first account: Tech-Torture with Topher: Bye-Bye Smartphone, and follow … Continue reading

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Time Zones and Outlook Problems with Scheduling

In an earlier post entitled: Outlook’s Shortcomings 5 -Scheduling, I described one of the problems with Outlook — it’s not designed to help a user to use it’s calendar function to manage their daily activities. Instead,  it was only added … Continue reading

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Why Outlook Needs Industrial Engineering

It just struck me that the basis for almost all the thinking I have done on this blog lies in the fact that I was trained as  an operations researcher / industrial engineer (OR&IE). As OR&IE’s know, there is no … Continue reading

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Outlook’s Shortcomings 5 – Scheduling

Scheduling is one of the more difficult practices in time management for a user to master.  At the same time it offers one of the most important opportunities to professionals who are trying to ensure peace of mind as they … Continue reading

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Outlook’s Shortcomings – Part 4

So far in this series, I have addressed the idea that Outlook could be improved by re-building it around the fundamental practices of time management.  The fundamental, Emptying, is the most important one for many users, and it also could … Continue reading

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Outlook’s Shortcomings – Part 3

In my prior post I brought up the notion that Outlook was designed to solve user’s problems with email, rather than the bigger problem they have with time demands. I also mentioned that the company that understands this shift would … Continue reading

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