Ask Charlie: How Do You Mindmap and Purge?

Note: “Ask Charlie” is a new category of posts where I answer the questions people send me via email, Twitter, or wherever else we interact. After trying to figure out the best way to get these going and what to name them, I decided to just roll with it the easy way and revise as [...]

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The Blog Gets A Tune-Up!

I’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work here and I’d like to let you know about them. My aim was to make the site more usable, accessible, and clear – this blog has nearly 1,000 pages worth of content and I wanted to help with the overwhelm/frustration of not knowing where to [...]

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PF Becomes Print-Friendly

Just in time for Earth Day!: I worked behind the scenes today to fix my CSS so that this site is  more print-friendly. Yes, rather than write in a way that’s more web-friendly, I decided that it would be easier to make this blog more print-friendly. So, if you’ve been itching to read the “Rebirth” [...]

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Bringing Conversations (Back?) to Blogging

I could have written this post as a more standard blog post with a catchy stand-alone intro, but it’s worth not doing that in this case. This post is about how we’re missing out on the conversational aspect of blogging, and part of the reason we’re missing out is precisely because we’re too worried with [...]

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More Free Planners: The Blog Post Planner and Calendar

Edit: I keep the updated copies of these planners on the Free Planners page. You’ll want to grab them there if you’d like to use them.] One of the great things about blogs is that some of the best posts come from the spur of the moment. An intense idea hits you and you crank [...]

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Reader Question Answered: Being Productive vs. Writing About Productivity

A couple of weeks ago, I was having lunch with Kelly from the Honeycomb and we were talking about productivity, planners, and life, in general. She later emailed me with a question that we didn’t have time to discuss. Her question was: Where do you draw the line between blogging and focusing on “productive” output, [...]

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Don’t We Get to Choose What Words Mean?

Clay (author of TheGrowingLife) wrote a brilliant comment on my last post dissenting (somewhat) about the importance of words, roots, and their meaning. I started to write a comment in response but it became clear that that response is its own post. First, I really appreciate Clay voicing his comment, for multiple reasons. I love [...]

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Whose Blogspace Is This, Anyways?

I’m trying to save all of my metablogging posts ’til Friday, since if I wrote about all the stuff related to blogging that I’m thinking about, I’d probably write as much about blogging as I do anything else. That said, we’re off! Michelle at Bloggrrl wrote today about something that has been on my mind [...]

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Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing for Non-Academics

I had a forehead slap moment last Tuesday when I was proofreading a letter my wife had written to a military officer. She’s doing some research on families of Army National Guardsmen who have deployed, and she needed to write a letter to an officer to keep the research on track. She asked me to [...]

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