I am a long-time user of TiddlyWikis and its various adaptations. Before a catastrophic accident involving the synchronization of various offline files wiped out my tasks list, I was an extensive user of GTDTiddlyWiki. After the accident, I moved to a server-side TiddlyWiki, alternating between Serversidewiki.com and ZiddlyWiki before finally settling with TiddlySpot.
I am also [...]
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Using a TiddlyWiki: a video guide
September 7th, 2006 · 8 Comments
Tags: Highlights · LifeHacks · Open source · Wiki · planner
Back to basics
August 12th, 2006 · 3 Comments
I started working before the word processor as we know it today and the graphical desktop became mainstream. In fact, in my first few weeks on the job, I used a typewriter.
When I joined The Freeman, a Cebu City-based community newspaper, in 1996, its newsroom was using networked PCs running DOS. It took me a [...]
Tags: Highlights · LifeHacks · Personal · productivity
I’m writing this post to avoid finalizing the design of a site
June 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
Here’s an interesting essay on structured procrastination by John Perry, a philosophy professor at Stanford.
In the essay, Perry points the way forward to procrastinators like me:
“The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a [...]
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Organize your life with Google
April 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Google Calendar, launched just a few days ago, is a service I see myself using extensively. The first thing that grabbed my attention is the typical (for Google) uncluttered and simplified interface. Google Calendar is powered by Ajax, a web technology that allows the updating chunks of information in a web page without having to [...]
Tags: Free services · Internet · LifeHacks · planner
Printable CEO goes online: Color-code and assign points to your tasks
April 6th, 2006 · 6 Comments
David Seah’s Printable CEO is an effective productivity tool. It allows you to focus on important tasks based on your hierarchy of values. The color-coding and the assignment of points make it easy to decide which tasks to prioritize. The accompanying tasks tracker helps you keep tab on the things you’ve done and the points [...]
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Punk’s not dead, it has gone jogging
April 5th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Or at least I did. I jogged four rounds at the Cebu City Sports Center oval today and walked another round, with Me First and The Gimme Gimmes and Ramones threatening to bust my eardrums.
I have an eclectic taste in music and my playlist leaves people I know bewildered. Bob Dylan gets mixed with Pavarotti, [...]
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