I would be very grateful if someone wrote an article summarizing all of the different methods of getting organized and learning to do so, with links to all of those various productivity blogs.
I am just dipping my toe into productivity porn—most productivity pornography that I’ve seen assumes a higher level of organization/habit than I have (Beeminder doesn’t assume that) so I haven’t bothered at trying any advanced techniques. I do have a strong desire that information be much more organized and consolidated that it usually is. I have a dream that someday I’ll be able to get books in certain fields that are like lists of facts, with collapsed context/deeper explanations and evidence for the facts.
With regards to blogs, and productivity blogs, it isn’t really possible since people are writing new information, but I would like to see 1 huge article that “has everything” just summarized, with links or collapsed details.
Currently, it’s really difficult to “skim” many different long blog articles and pick out what is different, what’s good, what is repeated on another site, etc. I like lists of single sentences/short words with no little to no context.
I would be very grateful if someone wrote an article summarizing all of the different methods of getting organized and learning to do so, with links to all of those various productivity blogs.
Are you making fun of all us productivity porn connoisseurs? :)
Seriously though, we’re pretty proud of the Beeminder blog: http://blog.beeminder.com
There’s also good stuff at http://blog.idonethis.com though they actually post too frequently for my taste.
Ooh, and http://markforster.net and of course lifehacker.com has a gazillion interesting ideas.
(And, yes, self-parody that I am, I second your call for a comprehensive survey article on productivity techniques!)
No. :)
I am just dipping my toe into productivity porn—most productivity pornography that I’ve seen assumes a higher level of organization/habit than I have (Beeminder doesn’t assume that) so I haven’t bothered at trying any advanced techniques. I do have a strong desire that information be much more organized and consolidated that it usually is. I have a dream that someday I’ll be able to get books in certain fields that are like lists of facts, with collapsed context/deeper explanations and evidence for the facts.
With regards to blogs, and productivity blogs, it isn’t really possible since people are writing new information, but I would like to see 1 huge article that “has everything” just summarized, with links or collapsed details.
Currently, it’s really difficult to “skim” many different long blog articles and pick out what is different, what’s good, what is repeated on another site, etc. I like lists of single sentences/short words with no little to no context.
Thanks for the links!
I’d probably be willing to do that eventually, but I’m not actually aware of a significant number of books or blogs about organization.