Thinking Rock is a free organizational tool based on David Allen’s GTD system.
From the website:
Thinking Rock allows you to collect your thoughts and process them into actions, projects, information or future possibilities.
Actions can be done by you, delegated to someone else or scheduled for a particular date. Projects can be organized with ordered actions and sub-projects. You can review all of your actions, projects and other information quickly and easily to see what you need to do or to choose what you want to do at a particular time.
Click here to learn more about Thinking Rock.

How to keep your inbox squeaky clean. A video presentation from Merlin Mann of 43Folders.

Want to make sure you have great follow through on your projects for the year? How about your priorities, have you got them all sorted out? If you’re the type of person who needs to write everything down to get organized, you’ll benefit from David Seah’s Concrete Goals Tracker for 2008.
Here’s a description from the site:
The Concrete Goals Tracker (CGT) is the original Printable CEO™ form, created one evening in 2005 to alleviate my desire to have a “trusted personal CEO” that would tell me what to do. I figured since I couldn’t hire anyone to do the …read more

Getting Things Done or GTD is David Allen’s system for personal productivity. I gave away a free copy of the audio book in a contest before. Here’s a summary of the book:

This video shows how you can create your own GTD notebook easily and more economically in lieu of the folders and containers suggested in the book. (Then again I think they weren’t meant to be taken literally). Here’s the video:

What better way to celebrate the New Year than with a Pimp Your Work contest? Here are the specs:
The Pimpin’ Prize:

a copy of David Allen’s Getting Things Done in PDF format (a $15 value)
a copy of David Allen’s Getting Things Done in mp3 format (I forgot how much this cost, but Amazon says $26 and some odd cents)
a bunch of other GTD resources in PDF Format (planner templates, the advanced workflow, etc.)

The Rules:
1. First, you must write a blog post listing your New Year’s Resolutions. It’s best to include some productivity related resolutions.
2. Make sure that ABOVE your …read more

Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits is a popular productivity blog based on the principle of keeping things simple.  His blog and ideas are a breath of fresh air for those whose idea of productivity is buzzing around like a bee and surrounding oneself with as much tools as possible.  So far, Leo is best known for creating the Zen-to-Done (ZTD)  system.
Here’s a summary of what ZTD is all about: click here for a post from Zen Habits
ZTD is an answer to David Allen’s popular Getting Things Done (GTD) system of productivity.  GTD has its own flaws, as Leo noticed, so he …read more

Something for all you Backpack fans…
37Signals relaunched their Backpack service today. The app’s back end code was completely rebuilt from scratch, according to Jason Fried, and the service also got a new UI to match some of 37Signals’ other recently updated products (such as Basecamp). The design still feels very familiar to any 37Signals app user, however. Source: 37Signals Relaunches Backpack Organizational Tool
I have to admit that I haven’t gotten into Backpack much.  I know, shock, gasp, etc.  I’m just into that many web-based tools.  However, given that my laptop is on the fritz and I won’t be getting it …read more

My friend Ben Yoskovitz laments a common problem we all have faced dealing with folks via e-mail…not getting a critical question answered:
And that’s frustrating. You can’t keep asking the same question over and over, and presumably you’re asking the question because you really want an answer.

Tip: The last question you ask in an email is the one that will get answered.

People will skim your email, get to the bottom and see a call to action. If you’ve peppered your email with other questions, it’s very likely people will miss them, or won’t bother responding. They will key in on the …read more

 Did you know that to Gmail trishussey and tris.hussey are the same?  Yep.  And if you say do something like tris.hussey+pyw@ you can have a whole new e-mail address to filter on?
You can reformat your existing Gmail address by inserting dots (periods) anywhere within your Gmail username. The Gmail Help pages explain:
Because Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail address won’t change the actual destination address. Messages sent to yourusername@gmail.com and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are all delivered to your Inbox, and only yours.
 Source: Gmail Tip: Reformat your Gmail address with dots – Lifehacker
While …read more