My Life, My Universe, My Everything

Today I spent a lot of time on the web and I stumbled upon a lot of things:

First, there is the “Get Things Done” line I followed. Starting from the book by David Allen I quickly came to Sylvia’s GTD Homepage and then to the GTD with Gmail Whitepaper. I was previously looking for a tool to manage my to-do lists online. This seems to be a good way.

Next, I checked out a few things to organise myself better using Outlook – the preferred tool at work. First, there is David’s little booklet. Then there is this post on Tickling email in Outlook. I still need to work through this during the weekend.

Coming back to GMail: To improve the usability of GMail even further, I installed scripts described in “Adding Persistent Searches to GMail” and “A Greasemonkey Christmas”.

And there was an article in the c’t magazine about Writer2LaTeX. So I installed OpenOffice and Writer2LaTeX. Now I still have to test the system.

Finally, I found out about the Google Reader – a tool to read RSS feeds – via persistent.info. I entered those feeds I read regularly. I noticed that it takes a moment to update the list – longer than the live bookmarks in Firefox.

Another couple of blogs that seem interesting: Lifehacker and 43Folders.

And some fun: Woogle – Words in pictures. Try, for example, “cool stuff in computer science”

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