Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

Tying up your computer cable mess with a daisy chain from Wellington Grey.

If you’re tired of your computer cable mess, and you don’t have any twisty ties around, you can try this knotting method to store your cables neatly.

David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times recently gave a talk about some neat, productive and time saving things you can do with your phone. There’s some old-hat stuff about VoIP in the beginning but skip to 7 minutes into the video for the useful phone hacks.
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Possessed is a short documentary available for free online about four people with clinical compulsive hoarding. From the website:
‘POSSESSED’ enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions… When does collecting become hoarding and why do possessions exert such an influence on our lives?
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Merlin Mann gave a presentation at Google titled ‘Inbox Zero’ about how to manage your email. Merlin ruthlessly views email as an information delivery mechanism: once you have what you need, chuck the email. Emails are not letters or, as he often says, ‘Each email is not a little hug’.
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There is something to be said for designing computers the way people want to use them rather than the way programmers think people should use them. However, this example is too much:

This system is the worst of both worlds: all the complexity and non-obvious control of a computer combined with the limited space and [...]