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Taste Testing Tasks

January 23, 2012

Ever been to those expensive cafes where you can try a bit of each cake before deciding which one to go for? No, me neither, but I wish they did the same with beer… That said, it is a very effective technique fore task management. Very rarely are things that need doing truly one task – [...]

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Things vs Omnifcous

January 18, 2012

Two to do apps – a battle to the death. Okay, so not really. But I have been a long time Omnifocus user, and have been trying Things out for the last 3 or 4 months, and thought it might be useful to share the experience. The conclusion? I love Omnifocus, but I am moving [...]

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How to Get Things Done Very Quickly

September 12, 2011

At the end of the day, this is what we are trying to do. Get whatever we want done, to the right standard, as quickly as possible. So here is a quick and dirty way of doing it: 1. Spell out to yourself clearly what you want to do; 2. Define precisely what ‘complete’ looks [...]

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Monkey On-the-bus – Volume 1

September 21, 2010

I really appreciate you reading this blog – I genuinely do. And as such, I have had an idea… In all likelihood, the majority of readers will have joined me recently – this means they won’t have had the benefit of the wealth of knowledge held here in the Half-a-dozen Monkeys archieves. And then it [...]

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All the Gear and No Idea

September 7, 2010

We all know the guy I mean. At the golf club, the gym, or at work. He’s the guy with the brand new set of clubs, the crisply ironed gym kit, and the top of the range PDA. He’s also the guy who can’t hit the ball, can’t operate the weight machine, and whose work [...]

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Minimalism is not Simplicity

August 31, 2010

Minimalism seems to be the new thing-that-was-the-new-thing-before-this-thing. Particular in productivity and personal development. Everyone seems to be getting a bit too amorous with dramatic pictures of an Ikea desks with nothing on them other than a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. “You get more done when there is less around”. Quite. And ever since that [...]

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The Four Phases of a Productivity Process

July 20, 2010

Rubbish title I know. But it is important. A productivity process is something we use to help ourselves become more productive. It might be a to do list. It might be the way we arrange our desk. Even the time we get up in the morning and start working. These processes go through a four [...]

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When Do You Have Capacity to Work?

July 12, 2010

As human beings we have a finite capacity to get things done. This is limited by time, attention span, motivation, priorities, and a whole heap of less nagging, but equally as disruptive things. Our limited capacity varies through the day – the graph below is utterly fictitious from a numerical point of view, but the [...]

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An Old Hack, a New App, and Why I Got More Done

July 5, 2010

I have a new toy. Courtesy of Minimal Mac I have a new productivity tool on my iPhone – tenplustwo. It is based on an old Merlin Mann productivity hack, which I have be inspired to revisit here. In one of the less original names around, Mann’s (10+2)*5 Hack is a clever way to squeeze [...]

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Which Tasks Do We Put Off Most Often?

May 20, 2010

So I did a bit of a personal audit. I had a look at which of the (far too many) tasks on my lists were most often put-off. It wasn’t a very scientific exercise, but I put the date each item hit my to do list on the item: “Write entertaining yet informative blog post [...]

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