Saturday 5 October 2013

Productivity blog review: 43 folders

We all love to be at our productive best, who does'nt love the feeling exhaustion from a highly productive day. It gets really addictive to keep tuning our productivity tools and ideas, here I review the best productivity blogs to stay in tune.

43 folders

I first stumbled across 43 folders a few years ago when I was trying to free up some time in my action packed work day.The getting things done ( gtd ) blog post had me pondering about what I do at work, how much of it is really useful stuff and what can I get rid of. From then on Merlin's blog has been my frequently visited blog for tips and thoughts on workplace productivity,

You can't go through years of blog posts in one sitting but be sure to check the all times popular posts. Beware the popular list itself could become a productivity drain  for the day, so put it on your reading list and keep going back to it.

The hipster pda, another great idea of printing your own simple pda. No smartphone app could even come close to this one. Though I printed them a couple of years back, it questions the use of fancy apps and big name organizers. Many of these productivity apps are actually complex enough to become productivity drains, instead the hipster pda is a simple a4 print that you can fold cleverly into the size of a pocketable fold.

The inbox zero is another interesting concept of keeping your inbox clean and empty. Is that even possible? yes if you apply some productivity tips from gtd and categorize email into actionable and fileable. I do practice this one even today in my own way. I never have more than a handful of emails in my inbox.

Writers block happens to everyone, I sometimes just go into busy traffic zones to see what people are doing, or watching a tc show sometimes opens up my mind. Merlin mann has some great tips on hacking the writers block.

If you use a rss reader make sure you subscribe to their feed url. If you have not yet tried an rss reader make sure you check out Arego my very own android app for reading rss.

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