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Getting Things Done: the best parts

May 7, 2009

I read David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity about two years ago. Yes, it is a guru-ish productivity system, but it also helped me, a fundamentally lazy and disorganized person, to become extremely organized and productive.
Lawyers are at their best when they are free to think, and GTD is all about [...]

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Never forget anything again

October 22, 2008

There are two essential steps to any effective productivity system: (1) collecting everything you have to do; and (2) making sure you do it.
The first requires good, easy-to-use tools. If it takes work to collect tasks, you won’t do it. Tim Ferriss, author of the four-hour workweek, recently talked about how he does it.
Here are [...]

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Upcoming CLE seminars

May 18, 2008

I am teaching six continuing legal education seminars in the next three months, with a couple more under discussion. My presentations tend to be engaging (I don’t have the patience for boring presentations even when I am giving them), informative, and well-attended. Register early!

June 6th at noon. The Paperless Office, 1 hour webcast, $75. Register [...]

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What I use to manage my practice

April 16, 2008

As most readers of this blog know, I am in a constant search to find the “best” way to manage my practice. As everyone knows, there is no “best” way to manage a law practice, but there is always improvement. So here are the bits of technology and old-school hardware I am using to manage [...]

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There is no magic to organization

April 8, 2008

Beer companies sell illusions, not beer. They convince us that we will be smarter, more attractive, suave, etc., if we drink the beer. It rarely works. A screen-tanned blogger chugging Coors Light is no more attractive than a screen-tanned blogger without the beer. More tipsy, though.
Similarly, office supply companies sell us on the illusion that [...]

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Simplify your workspace

March 14, 2008

From Unclutterer comes a great post by Zen Habits author Leo Babauta on creating a minimalist workspace. Most of the attorneys I know life among piles of paper. While some defend their “system” of “organization,” most just don’t seem to know how to escape from the paper jungle they created for themselves.
So the first step [...]

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My weekly work planning template

February 15, 2008

After trying out numerous methods of tracking my cases and related tasks, I have finally found what seems to work best. I love Getting Things Done (GTD), but the system does not necessarily translate smoothly to a law practice. I have tried using Outlook, but my productivity suffered from not being able to look at [...]

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How I get things done

December 24, 2007

I consistently preach the gospel of procedures. Nothing works without good procedures. You can have the most cutting-edge computer, the best software, and the best intentions, but if you do not have solid, tested procedures in place, none of that fancy tech will do you a darn bit of good.
Behind David Allen’s excellent Getting Things [...]

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Online note taking apps

June 5, 2007

The Web Worker Daily recently put together a “top 7″ online note taking apps. If you like do to things online, then note-taking applications are a pretty nifty method of tracking your to-dos, especially if you subscribed to the Gospel of GTD.
To my mind, Google Notebook is clearly the best of the lot, but that [...]

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