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March 2005 - Posts

Saturday, March 26, 2005 7:49 AM

Please welcome the newest member of the GTD Zone

I've been following the development of Bert's Open Loops blog for a couple of months now. I knew almost immediately that Bert was someone I wanted to include in the GTD Zone. I wrote to Bert shortly after he launched his blog and encouraged him to get
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Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:51 PM

Cool! I make Jeremy's A-List. Here's mine.

Jeremy Wright typifies a group of people I have come to call friend even though we've spent little or no “atomic time” together. We chat frequently, e-mail each other constantly, and provide support for each other when the going occasionally
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Friday, March 18, 2005 7:14 AM

Slacker Manager hosts a productivity battle

Brendon Connelly, The Slacker Manager , is stirring the pot. He's productivity advocate Steve Pavalina against laziness advocate Fred Gratzon in a debate that should be great fun. Bren writes: The core difference that I see between these two thinkers
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Saturday, March 12, 2005 7:56 AM

David Allen: Definition of a black belt

What a great way to end the work week! I had the opportunity to chat with David Allen and Eric Mack via Skype yesterday afternoon. They were holed up in Eric’s Digital Sandbox enjoying one of their “geek days” - playing with all sorts
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Saturday, March 12, 2005 7:51 AM

Notes user? Check out this GTD template

If you're a Lotus Notes user, you definitely want to take a look at Brett's GTD template for Notes. It looks like a nice implementation for that productivity tool. Screen shot here , FAQ here . It's free and works with Notes R6 and newer.
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Saturday, March 12, 2005 7:46 AM

Bren has a great rant about customer service

Are you reading The Slacker Manager? If not, hop right over and read Bren's post about customer service . It ought to get your blood boiling (well, simmering anyway). I'm astonished that there are people who still don't get the simple rule that a good
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Saturday, March 05, 2005 7:04 AM

Omar says: "Do e-mail on your own time"

Omar calls e-mail the “Achilles heel” of his attempts at productivity. Turning off all the alerts, he says, lets him do e-mail “at his own time”. He has four suggestons - I follow three of them (I still do “c“ on his
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