I just heard about a new online tool recently called Springpad. It allows you to quickly organize and share a variety of bits and pieces of information that you collect throughout the day that are important to you and put them into defined structure and places.

The other benefit of Springpad is that it harnesses the power of the social networking world and allows you to interact with and share your collections of data with those that are important to you too.
I would say the power of Springpad doesn’t rely in it’s ability to collect your information though, it’s more …read more

A friend shared this site with me recently as a way to shave off some precious seconds from my life wasting time with some pretty mundane activities.
With Sprint’s www.waitless.org website, you’ve got tips and tricks for saving time completing the following tasks:

Quick peel a banana
Tangle-free cord wrap
Speed-dry a manicure
Speedy sorbet
Instant sand removal
Instant baby soothe
Quick-pop a bottle cap
Two-minute soda chill
Speed-tie your shoes
Quick-peel an egg
Instant shirt removal
Turbo parking
Fast-pour ketchup
Quick-peel a potato

The shoe tying, banana peeling and cord-wrapping are particularly handy in my opinion.
Do you have some interesting tips on saving some time in your daily life? I’d love to hear about …read more

Do you ever get to the end of your day and wonder where all those minutes and hours went in your day?
What were you doing? Did you really spend that long on Facebook? eBay? Solitaire?
Maybe you’re being really productive and you need to know exactly how much time you were spending on developing that website.
RescueTime uncovers all of that information for you.
RescueTime is a web-based time-management tool that allows you to easily understand how you spend your time. One of the coolest things about RescueTime is that there is NO DATA ENTRY. You install a doohicky on your computer …read more

You can use Gmail to get a lot more stuff done than just reading simple, old e-mail from friends and family. Are you like me, getting weary of trying to maintain some sense of order and organization to your Inbox and your life? With GTDGmail you can accomplish both.
GTD – Getting Things Done – is a simple and effective productivity concept: designed so that even the laziest and most scattered of people can be organised and stress free.
It is a way to get things done with “less effort, more ease and elegance”.
GTD focuses on Contexts and Next Actions. A Context …read more