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Entries Tagged ‘productivity’

Watching Over Your Own Shoulder

With all of the cool stuff on the web, it can be really easy to spend a lot of time just wandering (but we have known that since the web came about). Being that I am on vacation this week, I am particularly susceptible to that, before I start my summer co-op next week.
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How I Get Things Done

Remember the Milk. Plain and simple. For a while, I was using a moleskine-based system, but that just got to be too cumbersome for the nature of my workload. As a student, the work that I am doing is, for the most part, repetitive and RTM’s ability to do recurring tasks is fantastic for that.
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Cool Links: Cedar Fever Edition

Austin is known for being the Live Music Capital of the World, unfortunately, it is also known for being a nasty place for allergy sufferers, thanks to our long growing season and plentiful flora. Right now, Cedar pollen is wreaking havoc with my system, but hopefully, I will survive. (Interesting article reproduced from Texas Monthly [...]

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A 4-Hour Workweek for Students?

Trent over at The Simple Dollar wrote about the “4 Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss, and it got me thinking: A lot of this stuff is obviously applicable to professionals, but can it be applied to students?
Background: I am on summer vacation (”vacation”, now there is a funny idea) right now, so I would like [...]

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Simple Moleskine GTD for Students

Before I started using a Moleskine for tracking all of the stuff I had to do, I had wandered between several systems for tracking everything I needed to do as a student.

I had printed up some of the 8.5 x 11 weekly planner pages from DIYPlanner and I would put every assignment down as I [...]

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