Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

Remember those index cards you picked up on the office supply run? Today is the day to use them. Find a block of time on your calendar and put everything away at your newly-organized desk: It’s time to empty your brain.
What’s on your mind. What projects are you working on? What [...]

The first task to living a more organized life is simple: get a pocket-sized notebook, a pen and keep them with you.
Always.
This small step is the biggest you can take to becoming a more organized person. With a notebook on you at all times, you can catch ideas as soon as they come to [...]

The shower: a time in the day for unintentional zen-like meditation. Your mind is clear, unfocused when — bam! — an unexpected solution pops into your brain. It’s the answer to a problem you’ve been working on for a while. Great — the only trouble is you’re naked, wet and covered with [...]

Back in college I was the guy with a palm pilot holstered on my waist — a nerd among nerds. Though I dearly loved my PDA I eventually left it for my PAA: Personal Analogue Assistant.
My PAA is this silver clipboard from which I run my life:

Each sheet of paper on the PAA is [...]

Everyone loves Moleskine notebooks. The rounded pages that don’t fray, the faux-leather cover and strap that let you feel secretly pretentious. A new moleskine smells like a fresh library. For office supply lovers, they are perfection.
Don’t use them.
If you keep a Moleskine to jot down notes and ideas, your pen will never [...]