Well I am not sure whether they really improve your life persay, but they will definitely keep you focused throughout the day to get your shit done. Judge for yourself!

For those Mac users out there, Blue Flavor has an excellent post to help you Get Control of Your Inbox using Apple Mail, and two awesome plug-ins (MailTags and Mail Act-On). I’ve taken the post to heart and reconfigured my mail system over the weekend - funny thing is that it is actually working!

Hawk Wings provides a comprehensive overview of plug-ins and Applescripts for Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book.

It seems that everyone these days is talking about how important it is to organize your digital life, but shouldn’t you take time to organize those stacks of papers laying around your studio first?

Do you have attention problems throughout the day? Do you get easily frustrated because you can’t concentrate and stay on task? If so, then you might want to think about Using a Day Planner as a Life Planner.

Mike Rohde presents the Digital Moleskine Concept, a hybrid Moleskine and digital notation tool. Beautiful idea, gorgeous sketch!

Having a hard time brainstorming or working through that big idea? Then try out one of the many Education Place has a good collections of pdf templates on graphics templates that can help you productively brainstorm and going through ideas.

I spend most of my time saying yes and trying to get other people to say yes, but what about saying “No”? Being a person who has always wanted to please everyone, I seldom say no. I need to work on this.

Twice a day, every weekday, I often find myself fighting the battle to stay productive on my 1.5 hour train ride to/from NYC. Today I am reminded that when i find myself staring out the window I should open my computer or datebook, turn on my ipod, and start cracking. My problem isn’t necessarily that I don’t want to work its that I work all the time, so in some ways it feels like my body tries to tune out for 3 hours a day and just veg!INSERT SCIENTIFIC STUDY HEREI shouldn’t embellish though.

TiddlyWiki is an amazing personal Wiki. It seems that Nathan Bowers at Snapgrid has made a fantastically brilliant adaptation to work with the GTD system.

At first I was a bit overwhelmed trying to figure out how to install it on my server but then I was amazed to realize that all you need to do […]