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College Student From Wisconsin

Hey everyone I am a student at Milwaukee school of engineering and a intern at a pretty large company called Direct Supply. I use GTD all the time.

I originally learned it from the "Four hour work week" and used it. I then learned that there was a internet sensation on it and I am brushing back up on it.

Know what I would really like? GTD for profit. Not just to work more. Especially since right now i work from 8am to midnight everynight :S.

Moleskine on sale @ amazon.co.uk

Moleskine on sale @ amazon.co.uk

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TOPICS: Lofi

Help: Countdown/up timer with list

Hi, I have kind of an odd request, but I thought I'd see if anyone knows of an app to fit this workflow.

Basically, I want to make a list of sequential actions with times associated with them. Then I want to start the first timer and get to work on the action. Now here's the rub: I don't want it to go on to the second action until I "ok" it and I want it to start counting up if I go over my allotted time.

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Printing Hipster PDA cards direct on an HP Printer, How-to link

Printing Hipster PDA cards direct on an HP Printer, How-to link

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Dream App for Task Management

Been a while.

I've tried various GTD systems over the years, and found that while many of the elements (Collect, Process, Do; Inbox Zero;) very helpful, I found myself benefiting from a different style and dream of an app suited to it.

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Has anybody used Task Freak?

Has anybody used Task Freak?

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Macbook battery

My macbook is almost a year old. Suddenly my battery life sucks. I just opened it up after it charging over night and it only registered 1:33 minutes left. Right now it is at 79% with 1:09 left. It's dropping faster then the elapsed time.

I've heard Merlin talk about some rubber chicken voodoo that he has done with his batteries. I've tried running it all the way down to nothing to reset the charge meter but that doesn't seem to help. Just last week I had over two hours on a full charge.

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TOPICS: Mac OS X, battery

Greetings from West Hollywood, CA

I want to Get Things Done!

A friendly hello to the 43 Folders community. Just another overwhelmed person here. I'm tired of being caught in this vicious cycle of stressing about how I'm going to do everything I want to do with my life which causes me to be physically and mentally exhausted all the time which causes me to not be able to do everything I want to do with my life which causes me to stress about how... I've read about and tried to implement a few related systems, but nothing has worked for me so far.

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Another small peeve

Another small peeve

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Several things that I suggest

Several things that I suggest

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