7 Step Guide to Creating the Ultimate To-Do List
As Long as our feeble brains cannot keep up with the number of things that need to be remembered Todo lists will have a place in any productivity system. But, how to make a...
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How to Deliver Projects on Time, Part 2
How to deliver projects on time? In this second part of the series I will cover strategies to avoid delay. How to Deliver Projects on Time Introduction Tomes have been written on the topic...
How to Deliver Projects on Time, Part 1
We all manage projects. Whether it be organizing an event, overseeing some home improvements or as a formal Project Manager(PM) we often need to successfully string a series of tasks together. In this first...
Hierarchy vs. Flat Task Lists, Part III
This could be an emotional moment, for it is the final part of the nested vs. flat task list trilogy. In this article I cover how one can yoke the benefits of nested and...
Hierarchy vs. Flat Task Lists, Part 2
Welcome to the second part of the enthralling hierarchical vs. flat list trilogy. The first part dealt with the advantages and disadvantages of nested and flat task lists. This article will cover applications of...
Hierarchy vs. Flat Task Lists, Part 1
This week I drank Rioja and reviewed Nozbe. Undoubtedly the former was more pleasurable but the latter resulted in me stumbling upon a highly contentious issue among productivity minded folk. Indeed, it confronts anyone...
Tame that Wunderlist and achieve your goals!
Like millions of other folk I use Wunderlist to keep track of tasks that need to be done. I appreciate the simple, clean interface and it’s fire and forget cross platform synchronization. In this...
Accelerated learning with auto-mindmapping
In this article I will discuss an efficient way to hack learning, in particular, reading. This will enable us to go from a rambling E-Book to condensed notes in a mindmap format using a...
Effectively Managing Huge Todo Lists, Part 1
Thirty minutes ago I had no idea I would now be penning the first of two articles on effectively managing large Todo lists. I can only attribute this inspiration on the magical alchemy of...
MS Project Hack – Automatically update Project Planning
Project plans and roof gutters both need regular maintenance to be useful. For project plans, that can be laborious and so I wonder if we can apply an approach from Kanban to allow automatic...