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The latest version of the Things task manager (0.9.2) incorporates synchronization and support for Leopard’s system-wide to-do’s! As has become the norm with Things, the new feature is extremely well thought-out, and in my testing so far it works flawlessly.

This was the big feature I was most expecting, since it gives me back the ability [...]

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I am a big fan of Things, the very nice task manager from Cultured Code. I keep both personal and work-related tasks in it, and in my Mac I have two accounts, for personal and work-related use. This leads to me having to run Things on both accounts, while sharing the same database. Here’s how [...]

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Almost two months ago, I wrote about my new productivity technique of keeping a handwritten log of my daily activities. At the time I had been doing it for about a month, but I was still in the “excited about it” phase, so I thought it would be fair to do a review after two [...]

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I have the habit of taking some “personal time” every day after lunch, to check news, web comics, check my personal email, etc. Recently I had started to try to limit that time to 15-20 minutes at most (unchecked, it could stretch way into the afternoon).

I take as personal time whatever is left of [...]

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My history of task management applications…

Since I started using GTD a few years ago, I have used several applications for the computer-based side of my task management (which is where almost everything else eventually ends up). In chronological order, I have used:

The standard applications on my (aging) Palm device together with JPilot on [...]

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This is the best productivity tip I have received in a long time, and it is surprisingly simple:

Keep a handwritten, detailed log of your daily activities.

I have been using GTD for some time now, and my problem has always remained in the last step: actually doing the things in my actions list. I [...]

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Version 2.0-gamma of Thinking Rock has been released for Linux. I have written an ebuild for it, you can find it here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154978.

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