Productivity Working in a semester that's one month long How I'm learning to love constraints, as I put an entire semester's work into a single month sprint.
Productivity Planning as an act of hope How do you approach planning short- and long-term goals, when you have no idea what the next 120 days will be like, or even if you'll be around at the end of it?
GTD Start the semester at Inbox Zero Professors joke about drowning in email, but it's a problem that hampers our professional work. Here's how to get to Inbox Zero and stay there.
Productivity Grading with GTD How can we get academic grading under control so it doesnt take over our lives? The core habits of Getting Things Done can help.
Productivity Using Google Drive, Mendeley, Evernote, and Trello to manage a remote collaborative research project In working on a major literature review project for my sabbatical with a remote collaborator, I rigged several useful online resources together to provide a usable framework to get the work done.
GTD Reading research articles the GTD way Breaking the reading of a research article down into 8 distinct steps can make reading easier and more productive.
GTD Why I am going back to ToDoist from todo.txt Earlier in the summer, I migrated my GTD system from ToDoist to the text-based todo.txt system. I'm changing back, and here's why.
GTD Keeping it simple and getting things done: The move to a plaintext GTD system I've recently experimented with a Getting Things Done (GTD) that uses no apps but just two plain text files. It's different, radically simple, and awesome.
GTD Dealing with distraction in academic work Academic types do lots of work that isn't exactly exciting. How can we avoid the increased busy-ness and time pressure that comes from caving into distractions when working? I have five ideas.
GTD GTD for Academics: The Trimesterly Review Getting an occasional deep-dive/high-altitude look at our goals and values will help keep our tasks and projects in shape -- and it just might help solve the work-life balance problem.
GTD GTD for Academics: The weekly review The secret ingredient to making GTD work isn't so secret: It involves reviewing the entire system on a weekly basis.
GTD How I use Evernote Part of my simple trusted system for GTD is Evernote. What is this app? What's it for? What does it have to do with GTD? And why should people pay for it?
GTD GTD for Academics: Simple Trusted System GTD is about habits, not tools. But the tools are important too. What are the key components of a simple, trusted system that implements GTD? And how do I personally do it?
GTD GTD for Academics: Doing Part 7 of GTD for Academics focuses on one of the trickiest parts of GTD: Actually doing the tasks that you need to do.
GTD GTD for Academics: Planning We come to part 6 of GTD for Academics and the third important GTD/ZTD habit: Plan. What does it mean, why it is important, and how do do it?
GTD GTD for Academics: Process In part 5 of GTD for academics we focus on the habit of processing: Looking at the stuff in your inbox and deciding what it means and what to do with it. As an example, I give a live look into how I process my email to inbox zero.
GTD GTD for Academics: Collect In part 4 of GTD for academics we focus on the habit of collection and capture --- using simple tools to capture thoughts and ideas that we want to keep, before they get away.
GTD GTD for Academics: Acquiring the Habits Part 3 in an ongoing series about the Getting Things Done productivity philosophy for higher education people looks at a variant called Zen To Done, and its focus acquiring ten important habits for productivity.
GTD GTD for Academics: Engaging the system In this second post on GTD for academics, we look at the question of knowing what to do with our time, why a system for helping us decide is important, and what a good system looks like -- and doesn't look like.
GTD GTD for Academics: Setting the stage How do those of us in academia manage our time, tasks, and projects so that we have happiness, balance, and productivity? It's a question that's hard to answer but in this series of posts about the Getting Things Done system, I'll give it a go.