Comments on: Tools I Use to Stay Organized http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/02/tools-i-use-to-stay-organized/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tools-i-use-to-stay-organized Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Authors and Self-Publishers Can Use the Power of Google for Many Tasks — The Book Designer http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/02/tools-i-use-to-stay-organized/#comment-1278 Authors and Self-Publishers Can Use the Power of Google for Many Tasks — The Book Designer Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:05:14 +0000 http://www.thebookdesigner.com/?p=4321#comment-1278 [...] easiest way to organize the feed from blogs and news feeds that you follow. As RSS feeds become more prevalent, tools like Reader will become [...] [...] easiest way to organize the feed from blogs and news feeds that you follow. As RSS feeds become more prevalent, tools like Reader will become [...]

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]]> By: Joel http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/02/tools-i-use-to-stay-organized/#comment-978 Joel Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:22:57 +0000 http://www.thebookdesigner.com/?p=4321#comment-978 Hamish, thanks for your input. It seems that when I have both the desktop and iPhone versions of Things running, they often sync automatically, but there are times I've had to do it manually. Actually, the lack of a lot of "functions" or "features" is one of the things that attracted me to Things. Often these features just get in the way of the pretty simple task I want to accomplish. I appreciate your pointing me to The Now Habit, sounds like something that could be useful for me. And yes, the dirty secret is that the locus of control over anything in your life is not in some software or some coach, or some artifact, although all can be useful. It's in you, it's the drive or desire to get to the end of the project or task, to reach completion even if it's only one step at a time. Actually I do a lot of writing with pens on paper. I have a daily "free writing" practice, and fill piles of notebooks with those, make copious notes in my Moleskine, and draw page layouts on scraps of paper lying around my desk. This may also have something to do with being trained in writing and graphic arts in the dark ages before "digits" were discovered. Thanks again for stopping by, Hamish. Hamish, thanks for your input. It seems that when I have both the desktop and iPhone versions of Things running, they often sync automatically, but there are times I’ve had to do it manually. Actually, the lack of a lot of “functions” or “features” is one of the things that attracted me to Things. Often these features just get in the way of the pretty simple task I want to accomplish.

I appreciate your pointing me to The Now Habit, sounds like something that could be useful for me. And yes, the dirty secret is that the locus of control over anything in your life is not in some software or some coach, or some artifact, although all can be useful. It’s in you, it’s the drive or desire to get to the end of the project or task, to reach completion even if it’s only one step at a time.

Actually I do a lot of writing with pens on paper. I have a daily “free writing” practice, and fill piles of notebooks with those, make copious notes in my Moleskine, and draw page layouts on scraps of paper lying around my desk. This may also have something to do with being trained in writing and graphic arts in the dark ages before “digits” were discovered.

Thanks again for stopping by, Hamish.

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