What makes your more productive?
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What makes your more productive?
Being the new IT bod at my company and trying to come up with ways of improving productivity in the company. I'm going to be doing things like setting up a company account for del.icio.us and then using that to manage the whole company's bookmarks. But also there is simple stuff like maknig sure the mouse speed is set to something sensible and used icons on the desktop/dock are packaged away somewhere.
So what makes your more productive? Be it simple or complex I'm interested. I'm talking about both Mac OS X and Windows XP here, and not just coding, productivity in general like email, file management, image editing etc.
So what makes your more productive? Be it simple or complex I'm interested. I'm talking about both Mac OS X and Windows XP here, and not just coding, productivity in general like email, file management, image editing etc.
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Tip One: read Getting Things Done and change your life.
Tip Two: Personally, I use Backpack to organize my various projects. It takes a while for it to "click", but once it does, it's great.
Tip Two: Personally, I use Backpack to organize my various projects. It takes a while for it to "click", but once it does, it's great.
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that decreases my productivity by 234234%d11wtq wrote:Working from home. Seriously.
What makes me the most productive is knowing that i need to get something done to get my paycheck. but i guess that will make a man work just hard enough to not get fired
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That's a good book for everyone, even those already organized will learn something. I've got a copy of the "Process" up on my bulletin board.Nathaniel wrote:Tip One: read Getting Things Done and change your life.
I've been playing with SiteBar for bookmarks, you could set this up on your company server. It does integrate with Firefox nicely, very easy to use. [Not sure about this applications security beyond the fact there is a htmlspecialchars and mysql_escape_string in the source code. I'm only using it under localhost, so security isn't a problem for me.]
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It might be better as I've never used google browser sync. I think the comparison might be one of apple and oranges though. Google browser sync still needs an external account to setup. Sitebar can be install on your own server and the sync extension is optional. Sitebar works with just about any browser and Internet Explorer too.ole wrote:I think google browser sync beats sitebar.
Can you tell how bored I am?From Google:
After successfully downloading and installing the extension, then restarting your browser, you'll see a setup wizard. (Please note that you'll need a Google Account to complete the setup process; if you don't already have a Google Account, you can create one now.) The setup wizard will take you through a series of quick and easy steps. You'll need to choose which browser components you'd like to keep synchronized with your other computers (the standard install includes all possible components), and choose a PIN to protect your sensitive information.
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