Comment on Do you set goals?parentComments−RiderOfGiraffes17ySome more reading around here on HN and checking on other people's recommendations has led me to this:http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/practicing-simplified...This actually matches pretty closely what I started with. My system has evolved a little further, and it seems I deal with more paper, but this is a better summary than I otherwise might write.These are linked to and form a crucial part of it:http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/the-art-of-the-d...http://lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--empty-your-...The email advice is especially important to me. I do file things into reference folders, but I have scripts to do the donkey work on that.
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Some more reading around here on HN and checking on other people's recommendations has led me to this:
http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/practicing-simplified...
This actually matches pretty closely what I started with. My system has evolved a little further, and it seems I deal with more paper, but this is a better summary than I otherwise might write.
These are linked to and form a crucial part of it:
http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/the-art-of-the-d...
http://lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--empty-your-...
The email advice is especially important to me. I do file things into reference folders, but I have scripts to do the donkey work on that.