Archive for the ‘Productivity’ CategoryUpon reading The Power of Less: The 6 Essential Productivity Principals That Will Change Your Life, I received some good ideas for slicing away a lot of excess in the BUSY work that I do, including dealing with tasks and information. I came up with some additional ways of dealing with specifically, Email, on my own. I think this book impacted me more, for the “why’s” of streamlining your information management, than the How’s of what he teaches as techniques. Many of us in this Info-Age (this phrase sounds overly corny and Editorial-ish, but I’ll leave it in) receive pretty long Emails - basically entire Newsletters - that you spend time opening more than one time. This repeated “attempted processing” of a Single Large email is due to having that initial attempt at opening it, reading it, but then leaving it in your Inbox to switch to something else, because you just don’t want to finish it — and you don’t want to try to THINK too hard on what subfolder in Outlook you want to throw it into. The bottomline: In Outlook, or whatever email program that you use, that “un-bolds” the subject line when you’ve opened it one time, you’re becoming more and more uneasy and uncomfortable due to not being able to really identify ones you’re finished with or still need. Lately, I have not been able to get the wireless router to work - I need to be able to use my Eee laptop to watch GoogleTalk videos for things like Django and jQuery talks, among others, on the couch, ( or when there’s actually Sun out here in WA, on the patio ). So I needed a smooth way of getting videos onto my laptop, by downloading them from my desktop since I can longer connect to the Internet on the Eee. Note: Even if you have a wireless connection - and thus you can just connect directly through your laptop and play them right there - there’s still the obvious advantage of playing files that are already downloaded and completely local: Minimal or no skipping frames
What I needed: ( let’s talk Use Case, informally speaking) ( if this looks tedious to read - it probably is - then just go straight to the yellow box below, those are the actual steps to set this up for you on your Windows desktop) When I found out about Delicious, I couldn’t see the attraction. I mean … bookmarks? I’m going to use a Social Media site to store URL’s ? I finally got a second pc (Asus Eee), and wanted to be able to access my Desktop bookmarks, so I was at first doing the whole Firefox export hassle, and copying it to the notebook via a USB drive, but then started using Delicious along with the Firefox plugin for it - keep it all on the Net, very easy. The main reason for mentioning Delicious, though, is its usage along with the FF plugin. |