productivity

think is my new favorite productivity app. the other day i was trying to read an ebook on my computer. but computers have a tendency to distract me. there's always something interesting going on. twitter, instant messaging, email and blog feeds each clamor for my attention. in looking for the mac equivalent to a compiz-fusion module called "ADD helper", i stumbled onto think.

it's pretty simple. it darkens the desktop everywhere but the window i'm using... it gives me the edge i need to overcome my tendency toward distraction, and it does it in a slick, maclike way. check it out.

apparently i'm 88% addicted to the blagosphere. i think that might be an underestimation...

as i post this, i'm listening to one blog and reading another.

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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.