Lifehacking and Getting Things Done

Productivity tricks that programmers devise and employ to cut through information overload and organize their data. Wikipedia Lifehack(ing)

Lifehack Solving everyday problems
RSS
E-mail (Gmail)
Websites UI
>>>Accelerating Workflow

Lifehacking Blogs – lifehacker.com

Lifehacking Blogs – makeuseof.com

Lifehacking Blogs – lifehack.org

Lifehacking Blogs – labnol.org

Lifehacking Blogs – the list goes on…
zenhabits.net
43folders.com
micropersuasion.com
lifehacker.biz
ghacks.net
del.icio.us/popular/lifehacks

Lifehacking Blogs – Features & Suggestions
Updated around the clock
Various topics on lifehacking
A lot of times linkblogs used (via)
They fill your RSS Reader inbox quickly.

Getting Things Done – Weapons of choice
Mozilla Firefox + Addons
Aide RSS
Gmail
del.icio.us
twitter
dropbox & box.net

Getting Things Done – Aide RSS
Filtering out the noise from RSS feeds or blogs so you don’t have to.
Collecting nr. Of Diggs, del.icio.us saves, Technorati, comments etc.

Getting Things Done – Aide RSS

Getting Things Done – Website UI

Mozilla Firefox + Stylish + Greasemonkey
Stylish -
manipulation of web pages and XUL application
change user interfaces through the use of CSS or userstyles
userstyles.org
Greasemonkey
write scripts that alter the web pages you visit
make a web site more readable or more usable
alter pages so they work better with assistive technologies
make two sites more interconnected
userscripts.org

Stylish
Using Stylish for changing the UI of a website.

Stylish - Google Reader

Stylish – Gmail

Stylish – del.icio.us

del.icio.us Use del.icio.us as a tool to collect links, items and posts from your readers.

Greasemonkey
Using Greasemonkey to “enhance” a website.

Greasemonkey – myspace.com

Greasemonkey
Integrate Google Reader into Gmail
Use an HTML signature on Gmail
“ Add to Twiter” button on Google Reader
Change the interface of Flickr for picture viewing
Add scripts to find Twitter spammers
The possibilities are endless…

Twitter
Use Twitter to find useful services and information

twitter.com

twitter.com + hashtags.org

Online File Storage
Dropbox & Box.net

Dropbox

Dropbox Just in case,10 invites are for grabbing

Box.net

After the 38 th slide (?) comes the 39 th …
The web is big
Information (overload) is increasing.
There are “tools” that can make a difference.
Use them to be more productive.

Lifehacking and Getting Things Done

by guestd08d5b on May 08, 2008

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