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A quick design change I had been looking for an even more sober design than "Black Box" had to date for a long time. I'm terrible at CSS, so I'm entirely dependent on the goodwill of the good people of SquareSpace. So when they
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Another quick consideration: "how clear is your next action?" I believe it was Merlin Mann who first spoke about the idea of making sure your next action is a delegation to your future self. He made that statement as a comment on ways to ensure task clarity. Kourosh
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About the book review So I gathered you noticed I'm reading this book. It's called "Workflow: beyond productivity" and has been written by Kourosh Dini. Although what I have been doing with this book can barely be called reviewing. Rather, I have been picking
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There is a question that continues to haunt me ... how do I ensure that I "trigger" the correct behaviour when I am in a certain context? For my key contexts this is usually not an issue. My @work and @home contexts are properly geofenced and my iOS devices
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Kourosh Dini's work "Workflow" has been my trusted companion book for the past days and weeks. It is not a book one should read voraciously. Rather, I like to go in and taste a small, esquisite bite of the deep knowledge it holds. Today, I want
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This is a quick break from my "Workflow" book review schedule. I seldom put something as intensely personal out there, on the internet. Actually, I do believe this is the very first time. This is an exception, but I wanted to share this because I have the feeling
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Preface - Poetry out of left field When I started reading Kourosh' chapter on aesthetics, about one sixth of the way into his epic work "Workflow: Beyond productivity", I was not convinced I would find anything relevant from an larger organization's point of view. After all,
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A quick aside: About my review As you may have noticed by now, I'm not really reviewing Kourosh Dini's most recent book "Workflow: Beyond Productivity" in a traditional manner. As a book, it appears to have an epic objective, which is to provide a
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In his excellent new book "Workflow: Beyond Productivity", Kourosh Dini states the following: "Any aspect of organization, be it task, checklist, container, memorized concepts, or otherwise decays in time as it relates to an intention." If you think a bit about it, it is very true.
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Introduction Going through my mailbox a couple of weeks ago, I was surprised (and very thrilled) to find an email from Kourosh Dini, the author of "Creating flow with OmniFocus", which is the unofficial reference book on how to set up your OmniFocus configuration and process. He thanked
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With all my OCD like behavior in terms of the proper application of GTD and my relatively rigid adherence to its workflows, do I actually get to be creative at all? When discussing aspects such as the GTD workflows with people and explaining how I implement GTD, it's
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An offhand remark in one of the comments posted by one of the participants in the Linked-In group "Getting Things Done - Network of GTD enthusiasts" triggered this post. In his comment, the reader refers to a tool called "Toggl" which allows you to measure and