life hack

five.sentenc.es

five sentences makes for a short email... and i like the sound of that.

i'm going to give this a shot.

i've always been impressed with mike davidson (the guy who came up with this). i think he just made my "daily read" list.

Twitter + Remember The Milk = Productivity Addiction

i mentioned my newfound twitter addiction a couple of weeks ago. my addiction has now been upgraded.

if you haven't been using Remember The Milk, you should be. it's an online to do list with all the functionality you'd expect from a Web 2.0 app.

today i hooked the two of them together. RTM now lets you interact with your tasks by sending Twitter messages. they'll send you messages back when tasks are due. you can mark 'em complete, or postpone 'em via messages.

because Twitter likes text messages, i can now text my productivity to my Remember The Milk account too. i think this just replaced my phone's to-do lists and calendar in one fell swoop, and i've only been using it about an hour.

i guess the upside is that this will prob'ly increase my productivity instead of just fueling my addiction to Twitter. and it's a good thing i signed up for unlimited texts.

real soup doesn't come from a can

Brian Regan points out that Pop Tarts® are the culmination of our impatient society. In addition to the traditional toaster-centric instructions, they have microwave instructions. Who is so busy that they don't have time to toast a Pop Tart®? Who needs to be awake and out the door in seconds? I would ask who doesn't? Who can afford to spend more time on something as trivial as a Pop Tart®? Microwaving is almost always better.