k y's List: Productivity Check List

• * 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
• 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.

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