The chief problem many of us face when we make our To-Do lists is that we try to list everything that we’re thinking about doing. The result is that we end up […]
Time Management
Is Backpack Worth the Time and Money?
The short answer: For most users, Backpack is worth the time and money. Backpack is an online service offered by 37Signals that makes organizing your information incredibly easy. Backpack lets you make […]
Does RescueTime Rescue Your Time?
In A Special Theory of Productivity, I mentioned that I that I didn’t think RescueTime worked as a time management solution. That’s too broad and unhelpful of a statement, so I’ll spend […]
A Special Theory of Productivity
I mentioned after I completed the Daily Momentum Planner that I figured out how to write this post. Life intervened and I lost the muse. I’m currently in the process of reconstructing […]
The Daily Momentum Planner
The video above is a short walkthrough of the Daily Momentum Planner. The Daily Momentum Planner helps you plan to do the right projects and actions during the right part of the […]
What Preschool Taught Us About Time Management
I mentioned in How Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive that I thought most personal planners got time wrong and presented all blocks of times as being equal. Later that […]
How Heat Mapping Your Day Can Make You More Productive
Productive capacity is different from what you’re actually producing. The way I think about it is that it’s the amount of productivity that you’re capable of in a given amount of time. […]
Is the Internet killing Academia?
Dustin @Lifehack has pointed out that the model for personal productivity that I proposed yesterday seems to be an academic model. While I see where he’s coming from, I think there’s a […]
Follow-up: Lifehack: Personal Productivity in the 21st Century
I commented (again) on Dustin’s article Personal Productivity in the 21st Century over at Lifehack. His question was regarding whether there is another model for personal productivity systems besides “cranking widgets.” I […]
Lifehack: Personal Productivity in the 21st Century
Dustin posted an article about Personal Productivity in the 21st Century over at Lifehack. I was going to comment on it on the blog, but my commentary got a bit long, so […]
Lifehack, The Power of Rituals, and Flourishing
Scott over at Lifehack recently wrote about the rituals and how they help maximize time. There are two rituals that I think are especially important: waking up and working. The Wake Up […]
Lifehack: The Importance of a Central Project List
Chris over at Lifehack has a brief article on his morning routine. I’ve found a similar technique to be especially helpful for the day. I try to get up two hours (yep, […]
R.A.F.T: Managing Email Rather Than Letting Email Manage You
A note from Charlie: This post was published before I developed the S.T.A.R method, which is a much more effective way to handle the volume of email we get nowadays. 2007 was […]
The Value of Not Accepting Late Work
I had an amazing thing happen this semester: every student turned in every assignment on time. I don’t think that happened due to the caliber of students or the time I was […]
Teaching Students to Write: Dealing with the Perennial Problem of the Pile of Crap
I’m currently designing my next course and I am faced with a problem that gets me every semester: what’s the best way to teach students how to write well while balancing that […]
To Work or Not to Work…That Is the Question
Some days you wake up knowing that you’re not going to get much done (today was one of those days for me). Popular wisdom would tell you to drink your joe, open […]
Yet another blog on time management?!
Okay, so there’s a plethora of blogs out there about personal productivity (I personally enjoy 43folders and LifeDev). However, their appeal is either based on programmers, as Merlin’s is, or is too […]