Dennis S.

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Jun 12	comment	Is it better to send attachment over email or should we use public url links? For best productivity, summarize the attachment in the email. If they don't look at the detailed attachment, at least they have the gist.
May 31	comment	Creative Common system to memorize 1000 numbers from 0-999 I don't understand what the question is, or why this has to do with personal productivity. Can you edit and clarify, please?
May 3	comment	Bad biological clock and weird sleeping hours Please edit this answer for clarity. I believe you are misusing "am" meaning "pm", but I'm not enough certain of your intent to make that edit myself.
Apr 8	comment	Automatically Quantifying Alertness That first URL is particularly interesting, and nicely on target for the original question.
Apr 4	comment	Has anyone ever seen any basic, temporally intelligent scheduling tools out there? Opinion, risky to add because this isn't a discussion board: You're trying to delegate to the software decisions that require too much data to be entered to make responsibly. The amount of time you'd need to spend updating your database of tasks and appointments and changing priorities to enable the software to make decisions is far greater than the amount of time it takes to scan a GTD style list of tasks for your current context.
Apr 2	comment	Is it possible to plan a project without deadlines? Overall a good answer I agree with. There is a project planning phase to GTD, the Natural Planning Model. See productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/5377/… for more information about it.
Mar 26	comment	How do you manage stress and anxiety when you have dozens of things to do, even If they are organised in detail? No organizational system is going to solve the problem of too much to do. If you are really overloaded, you need to find ways to renegotiate your load. 7 Habits does that with the urgent/important matrix, GTD has Areas of Focus and higher levels. All systems are a framework to help you make better decisions - but you still have to make the decisions.
Mar 26	comment	How do you manage stress and anxiety when you have dozens of things to do, even If they are organised in detail? I disagree about GTD falling short - the system includes "higher level" areas of focus that cover this area. I agree 7 Habits is very good in this area. Using 7 Habits material to inform my 20, 30, 40, and 50 thousand foot GTD lists has been very useful.
Mar 20	comment	Append mail content to a document online Is this document to be publicly available or private for you?
Feb 28	comment	How do you go about preparing for your talk? This is pretty much the process I follow, with an emphasis on "Practice". Out loud, while standing up, preferably with a video camera on you so you can review your own presentation.
Feb 22	comment	Is there a system/method incorporating bookmarks, citations/references, and a document editor (e.g., Google Docs/Drive) with a revision history? This particular project is working with the Cantigas d'Amico by Martin Codax, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Codax for a quick intro. (Typo above, actually 13C). I make my living as a software developer, so I can indulge my interest in music pre-1650. :-)
Nov 26	comment	“not in the mood” excuses for procrastination Do what the job requires, not what you feel like doing. Even if "the job" is your private life.
Aug 20	comment	How do you estimate time for a new task? Explanation, not rephrase: an estimate is expected to be wrong by definition. If you are estimating accurately, you should be underestimating the actual time by about the same amount and about as often as you are overestimating the actual time. You need to keep data on every estimate you make and the actual time required so you can tell if you are consistently overestimating or underestimating and adjust how you make estimates appropriately.
Aug 16	comment	What's the best task manager with sync with Android? There's an approach to Evernote as task manager at thesecretweapon.org that looks well thought out, and apparently successfully used. I'm not doing it that way, but it looks quite reasonable.
Aug 10	comment	Digesting points during non native language communication Are you asking from the perspective of person A or person B, who is attempting to communicate with person A? The question needs clarification.
Jul 26	comment	How best to organize research by project for multiple different projects? I see. I'm a GTD (Getting Things Done) user, so I approach this kind of activity (which I also need for my job) as 1) projects with deadlines and a deliverable (recommendation for a stove) 2) Someday/Maybe projects (recipes I might want to try) and 3) general keep-up-on-things activity learning about "stuff", which I do primarily with RSS feeds to various blogs and news sites. When I find something in this last category I want for the future, I snip and tag in Evernote.
Jul 5	comment	how can i design forms like this Photoshop, Word, Excel, GIMP, a combination of the above, and other options. Most of David Seah's tools that I've used are done in Excel, I think.
Jul 3	comment	Is it really useful to know too many things? "...get the information you need...". Exactly. And be very careful how you define "need".
Jul 2	comment	How to stop misplacing things? +1 dedicated spot! "A place for everything and everything in it's place."
Jun 26	comment	Well organized, still overloaded? Sorry, I can't be sure. After reading "GTD", "Making it all work", and a bunch of web sites, I started listening to podcasts and audiobooks on GTD. I think it might have been "GTD Fast", a CD set davidco used to sell.