Over the years I have endeavored to offer an encouraging and hopefully useful word as a new year arrives. In trying to organize and make sense of the things I want to achieve and how I want to organize myself…
Wake Up and Get Your Head in the Cloud
About a decade and a half ago, I was helping a non-profit with their website. We were discussing the budget, and how there was an expense for converting their regular newsletter for posting on their web site. “Why is it…
Don’t Use Quickbooks
If you’re a small business and are contemplating a move to an accounting software package, my counsel in the strongest possible terms is to avoid Quickbooks. I understand that they have had a stranglehold on the small- to medium-sized business…
Good-bye Delicious, Hello Google Bookmarks
All I really want is a place to store my bookmarks that will be available wherever I go. It”s an idea that is at least 10years old. I expect I was a late adopter to the idea (I have spent…
Getting Things Done: Asana! task manager
Around Thanksgiving, my thoughts turned to a different method of task management, because the one I was using wasn’t working. Certainly I did not lose any tasks, which was the problem when I adopted the approach about a year ago,…
Password Managers: Good-bye Keepass and Clipperz, Hello LastPass!
I can’t remember just why I went to a software-based password storage system originally. I guess it was because I tired of copying the data over from one paper-based planner format to another. Back in those days (three years ago?),…
GTD: Filing E-mail
Woohoo! I’m writing today using the time I usually use to file email. Okay, let’s back it up a couple of steps. Back in summer 2011, I took a job in which i receive about 100 emails a day. I…