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Notes on paper vs. notes on laptop: which is better?

Our lives are busy, so people love to talk about productivity and what “life hack” saves them a few minutes or makes their lives incrementally better, and since meetings are a fact of most people’s lives, it’s easy to find varied

Kate O'Neill March 23, 2015March 23, 2015 Productivity No Comments Read more

Making a list and checking it twice.

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Kate O'Neill December 13, 2014January 4, 2015 Productivity No Comments Read more

Procrastination vs. Processing

Normally I wouldn’t write a blog post to document that I’d completed a task. Especially not one that only took about 10 minutes to complete. But this is exceptional. This needed to be shared. Why? According to Remember The Milk,

Kate O'Neill March 16, 2014 Productivity 1 Comment Read more

Long voicemails = the end of phones?

After slogging my way through several minutes-long voicemail messages today, I’m developing a hypothesis about divergent voicemail styles. As text messaging has increased, it seems to me anecdotally that voicemail usage has decreased, but those who do leave voicemail messages

Kate O'Neill June 20, 2013February 6, 2015 Productivity No Comments Read more

Yes, I do use Remember The Milk as a reminder service (and here’s how I do it)

Remember The Milk added a small year-end feature that sums a user’s completed tasks for 2010 and allows users to post about it on Twitter and/or Facebook. Mine came out to 7,279. Some people cried foul, and maybe that’s a little bit fair. I defini…

Kate ONeill December 29, 2010February 6, 2015 Productivity No Comments Read more

On being in tune

Image by lowjumpingfrog via Flickr From an article on writing the perfect pop song in the Guardian: For Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, songwriting is not a choice, but a therapeutic necessity. “When I’m not writing songs, it’s cryptic

Kate ONeill February 2, 2009February 5, 2015 Introspection, Productivity, The Craft, Writing Songs No Comments Read more

Quickie

(I can’t believe it’s been THAT long since I updated here.) It was a crazy productive weekend, and to reward myself for my diligence yesterday, I spent all evening writing lyrics. By hand. On paper. With a pen!

Kate ONeill January 25, 2009 Productivity, Songwriting, The Craft, Writing Songs No Comments Read more

Inbox at zero, baby!

I finally got an inbox to zero! It won’t last very long, so I made sure to take a screenshot. I’ve still got my work inbox to whittle down, but that’s for later. I have to go dance a little

Kate ONeill December 26, 2008 Life at Home, Organization, Productivity No Comments Read more

Odds and ends: the weekend recovery edition

I’m so lame. I never got around to posting on Blog Action Day. But my excuse is that I’ve had a real roller coaster of a week. I went from, well, managing myself on Monday to having two direct reports

Kate ONeill October 20, 2007 Creativity & Inspiration, Drinking, Productivity, Songwriting, Status Reports, Web Stuff, Work, Writing Songs 2 Comments Read more

Process improvement, Post-It Note style

Communications Audit Originally uploaded by brittney Brittney (a.k.a. She Who Is Soon To Be Leaving Us For The City By The Bay) took this picture of the awesome handiwork of one of our colleagues who didn’t happen to have Visio

Kate ONeill October 4, 2007 Mostly For Fun, Organization, Productivity, Work 1 Comment Read more
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