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• 02 Jan 09
  

  k y

  Make this into a check list

  productivity

  • * Deleted all my newsreader feeds and really evaluating each feed as it goes back in. Things I’m unsure about go in a ‘trial’ folder and I’ll zap them if they don’t interest me within a week.
  • I’m checking email Dr. Pepper style, at 10,2 and 4. Batching should help
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  • • I’ll also do an RSS feed run at these times. I’ll reward myself with a flickr/twitter/mefi review if I’m a good boy.
    • No email review in the morning as I start my machine.
    • Unsubbed from all email discussion lists.
    • All sound-based notification off.
    • Reinforcing my habit of making a micro to do list of 3 to 5 things. Index card or sticky note for the day. Setting crazy short deadlines for each activity. Doing only one thing at a time.
    • mornings are mine, as that’s when I jam.
    • Anything that can be converted into a feed, do it. Shunt the email directly to archive.
    • Dump new contacts immediately into Address Book so I never waste time looking up contact info.
    • Make ‘no’ the default answer for new project/app review/etc. requests.
• 08 Aug 08
  

  Trevor Holmes
• 31 May 08
  

  Chuck Brands
• 08 May 08
  

  Guia Basica
  • Deleted all my newsreader feeds and really evaluating each feed as it goes back in. Things I’m unsure about go in a ‘trial’ folder and I’ll zap them if they don’t interest me within a week.
  • ’m checking email Dr. Pepper style, at 10,2 and 4. Batching should help, and also making it a sprint to process my inbox within 10 to 15 minutes. ‘Reply to’ stuff goes in that folder. Stuff I note and might want later goes to ‘Archive’. Stuff I never need again gets deleted. You can delete a ton of your email. Really. Process voice mails at the same time. (I’ll also do an RSS feed run at these times. I’ll reward myself with a flickr/twitter/mefi review if I’m a good boy.)
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  • • Reinforcing my habit of making a micro to do list of 3 to 5 things. Index card or sticky note for the day. Setting crazy short deadlines for each activity. Doing only one thing at a time.
    • 30 minute meeting increments by default. I’ll need a good reason why our meeting needs to go longer than half an hour. My hunch is, with prep on all sides, no meeting should really go longer.
    • No impromptu meetings unless it’s really an emergency. And it rarely is.
    • * Stop trying to accomodate a global work schedule. Again, unless it’s really mandatory or unavoidable, I work during my work hours, not those in other parts of the world.
    • * Make ‘no’ the default answer for new project/app review/etc. requests. New things should earn their way into the attention field.
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• 21 Apr 07
  

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