Two Minute GTD timer for MAC
Dan Messing wrote this brilliant piece of software. It's a Two Minute Timer! You know... for processing your inboxes!
Now you can easily adhere to the David Allen rule: If you can handle it in less than two minutes... Do it now!
I makes me immensely greatfull, that people like Dan exists out there. Someone who codes perfect little solutions to all my problems. Free software is my favourite kind.
- Jens Poder
Begone curse of Greyface!
Just finished reading weird "Principia Discordia" lent to me by a discordian colleague from work - a slightly excentric fellow - he just got teargassed by police today!
Principia Discordia is the holy scripture of the Discordians. I can't quite figure out whether it's a religion or a happening. Perhaps it's both.
Most of the Principia is jibberish, but then there's a couple of interesting ideas in there to. Take for instance the Curse of Greyface.
The Curse of Greyface refers to, what discordians believe to be, a mythic transformation of society in which order/disorder replaced creative/destructive as the primary positive/negative polarity. This curse has created a society in which man tolerates destructive order, and frowns at creative disorder.
To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder. - The Curse of Greyface and the introduction of Negativism
It resonates perfectly with my blog motto "work & play creatively". The Principia Discordia is creative disorder taken to the extreme. And as such quite an amazing read.
Most of it was useless, but in the Curse of Greyface I found a wonderful concept. A beautiful mythic way to describe a grave threat to creativity and well-being that I encounter everywhere, especially in the workspace.
Now, anytime I feel the urge to be less noticeable, be more like the conformity crowd, I will recognize the influence of the curse, and counter it. Begone Curse of Greyface! :-)
- Jens Poder
Related Stuff:
- Play, your life may depend on it
The Complete Sticky Note Guide to Creativity
My colleague Simon sent me this presentation. It's from a presentation done by Katie Rutter from Adaptive Path.
Learn how to do all kinds of idea generation and idea sorting using nothing but Post-It stickies.
It's very detailed and full of practical tips and tricks.
- Jens Poder
Use Prism to Focus your use of Online Apps
Are you having trouble with online productivity? I have...
It happens every time I open a browser to add a calendar event to my online company calendar. I open the browser, ZAP!!!, my mind turns blank, and twenty minutes later I find myself on StumbleUpon thinking "what was I doing?"
My attention got hijacked. My normal browser is so full of possible distractions. It's just to tempting to check one of the Facebook updates on your startpage on Netvibes or Igoogle or whatever.
Well I think I have found a solution. It's called Mozilla Prism.
The idea is to make a number specific small chopped down browsers. Each of these browsers gets a specific starting URL. For instance, you could have one for your Gmail, one for your Online Calendar, and so on.
I installed Prism today, and it works wonderful. When you run Prism, it will ask you for a URL and where to put the little app. You can put it on the desktop or in the applications folder. You can even give each of these minibrowsers their own unique Icons.
So now I can enjoy the benifits of having focused apps that runs online software. I can launch them from spotlight or have them in my dock. And there's way to enter another URL. When I open my online mail to do work, I stay in my online mail.
- Jens Poder