I’ve been trolling the internet again finally getting something done. I’ve posted before about GTD personal productivity book by David Allen. While investigating that I’ve come across a couple of productivity sites.
Ethan did a series of screencasts entitled “Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop” – the series describes among other things how to remove your desktop clutter. And how to improve your workflow. Some of the suggestions I’m already doing others I hadn’t thought about. Take a few moments to review the 5 steps Ethan has included a screencast describing each step. I found it well worth the time.
Here is why I’m really excited. In part 5 he mentions a piece of software Hazel. First it is a preference pane. It is easy to install. All you have to do is to double-click. Now Hazel monitors folders and then does what you tell to do. I currently have all my downloads go to a folder. Once I’ve installed the software or looked at the download I move the item to the Offloads folder. When my offloads folders gets a couple of gigabytes I offload it to a DVD disk. Now what has me excited is that now I can have Hazel do that automatically. I like to have that done behind the scenes. I can see a lot of uses for this software. At work I often just drop documents on my desktop. Well this would clean my desktop up completely. I do a lot of Filemaker Pro work and I usually drop temporary databases there while I’m working on them. This would be great to get them moved off to the file server for storage when I’m done. This software has got me excited. Take a look at it.
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