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Integrating a new cell phone into my life

Posted in Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on March 16, 2010 | Comments Off

At my prior job I had a blackberry, and over the years I became very adept at using it.  My new organization only gives blackberries to those who travel a lot so I had to, for the first time in half a decade, buy myself a new phone.   We had a contract with T-Mobile, but [...]

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Review: GTDAgenda.com

Posted in GTD specific, Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on October 18, 2009 | Comments Off

A few months ago I was contacted by the developer of gtdagenda.com and offered an premium account that I could evaluate and, if I wanted, review.  I have now been using the site for several months and wanted to post a review of my experience. What is gtdagenda? gtdagenda.com is a web-based implementation of David [...]

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Kicken’ it old school: paper for some things

Posted in GTD specific, Organization, Productivity, Technology on September 20, 2009 | Comments Off

On the one hand, I really WANT to be able to use an electronic planner, note taking system and organizational process.  I’ve tried a number of them, and some (OneNote for my dissertation and my Inbox as a to do queue) are still in use.  But not all. I have reverted to paper note taking [...]

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White-collar trade school?

Posted in Being a scholar, Change, Education policy, Technology on August 27, 2009 | Comments Off

A recent article in Fast Company got me thinking about how higher education works.  The article, “How Web-Savvy Edupunks are Transforming American Higher Education”  looks at the various initiatives to move education away from the traditional campus and credits model to something more open and in keeping with the web. At first, this is a [...]

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Backups are one of your most important tasks…

Posted in Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Modern academic work is centered on our computers; data storage and analysis, writing, research, reference libraries, and often collaboration with our peers all require working computers. It is for this reason that keeping good backups is paramount to success as an academic. There are a number of techniques for keeping good backups as an academic.  [...]

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A new (to me) tool for keeping up with the literature

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Dissertation, Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

One of the most challenging parts of being an academic is keeping up with all the new literature that comes out. We live in a publish-or-perish world, and that means the most active academics are putting out several new articles per year that we need to at least be aware of. You may know already [...]

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OneNote vs Evernote, Round Two

Posted in Organization, Technology, Tools on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »

A couple of weeks ago I posted about my own decision process between OneNote and Evernote;  To skip to the end, the result for me was OneNote.  Interestingly, Lifehacker started a thread asking people which tool they prefer.  More interesting than the poll is the comments.  Here are some comments that jumped out at me: [...]

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Technology Experiment Updates

Posted in Organization, Productivity, Technology, Tools on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over the time I have been writing here I have talked about a number of different technology experiments regarding making myself more productive.  Some have been successful, while others haven’t.  Time for an updated on some of what I’ve tried. A voice recorder and Dragon Naturally Speaking for note taking while reading: The experiment: I [...]

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Futzing with the system…

Posted in Academic life, Organization, Technology, Tools on June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

There were a few comments that got caught in the move, but brought up valid points that I wanted to address. Brum wrote: I tried the tablet and it did not work for me. I think it is more important to get all your data and (immediate) thoughts into one database. I use the Evernote [...]

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Side Note: Technology Experiment

Posted in Technology, Writing on June 7, 2009 | Comments Off

One idea I did pick up from my writing group was the idea of writing notes while reading.  She wrote them in the margins, which won’t work for me because they aren’t searchable, but I understand the immediacy of picking up a pen and writing something down.  However I have absolutely no intention of  buying [...]

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