TheAnthroGeek

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Category: Productivity

  • “Hackacademic” has a variety of meanings. In my current use of it here, I’m aiming for “hacks for the academic”. I spend most of my professional time, teaching or preparing to teach.  I got an Ipad with the goal that I would strive to have it replace my laptop for in class teaching use. On…

  • Mind Mapping comes to mind every few months.  I hear about it; think it sounds like yet another good productivity technology I should embrace and then I forget about it because I don’t get it.  It was not that I could not  “get it” at a conceptual level, but that I could never see how…

  • Dial2do is the killer app of 2009.  This is a bold claim in that it’s January 2009 but this app is really changing my workflow for the better. For example, this message is being recorded from my phone to illustrate the power of dial2do’s functionality.  I spoke that sentence into my jawbone ear piece which…

  • About a month ago, I read “Getting Things Done”, David Allen’s popular method for “stress-free productivity”.  I’m now trying to keep up with it all. Merlin Mann’s 43 folders site is very helpful and free. David Allen group has a new club one can join called GTDConnect but $48 a month is too expensive for…

  • Let a wizard show you the way: http://www.43folders.com/taxonomy/term/3554