Getting Things Done

Producteev: Task and Project Management Software Works with You

June 4, 2010

Good task and project management software was hard to find a few years ago. Few people got further than Outlook. More recently, productivity has become an obsession of geeks everywhere, and now there is a flock of good task and project management options. But as Randall pointed out, it is easy to spend too much [...]

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Too Much Organization Can Be a Bad Thing

May 31, 2010

The firm I work for has been experimenting with a variety of client management software, collaborative software, and all sorts of other collaborative technology. Today we were debating the merits of another new program, and we both agreed that while organization is key, some programs merely duplicate the organization of another program. Effectively, this can [...]

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Nozbe: Project-Based Task Management

April 1, 2010

My productivity system is a mess. Instead of a single, trusted system, I use a jumbled combination of Gmail, Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, and TeuxDeux. In searching for one app to rule them all, I came across Nozbe. Nozbe is a project-based task manager in the GTD tradition. (The name is a tortured acronym: [...]

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Consolidate Your Online Productivity Tools

March 27, 2010

Guest post by Matthew Landis. Whether you are a law student or practicing attorney, time is a scarce commodity. The hundreds of tasks we are asked to perform each day, often across numerous locations, can seem overwhelming at times. To organize our time, we all have a system in place to manage various tasks. In [...]

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“Do Now” vs. “Due Now”: Work According to Plan, Not According to Deadlines

January 11, 2010

If you are always tackling your next deadline or latest e-mail, you will never find time to develop your business—or even just get ahead of your deadlines. If this sounds like you, the key is to start planning your schedule instead of letting your calendar dictate it. In order to integrate work planning into your [...]

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TeuxDeux Rocks My Productive World

January 7, 2010

My most-productive weeks are the ones where I sit down on Sunday night or Monday morning and decide what I should be working on each day of the upcoming week. I like to set out two or three “most important tasks” (MITs) for each day. If I get those things done, I feel good, even [...]

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