https://georgesupreeth.com/web/tags/productivity/Recent content in Productivity on George SupreethHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 26 Feb 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_turning_email_into_tasks/Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_turning_email_into_tasks/A lot of people have a love-hate relationship with their email. You have to live with it, and you certainly can’t live without it. It’s both the bane of our information-stuffed lives and the best way to asynchronously communicate with each other using long form text1. As a small business owner, I don’t receive too much email on any given day, and since I like a clean inbox, I try to respond and archive them as soon as possible.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250722_on_needles_in_haystacks/Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250722_on_needles_in_haystacks/The conference room was chilly, the meeting was definitely over, and I could almost taste the chai I usually hanker after excessively long client meetings. The hold up was that the client wanted to show me a presentation she used last week, which she thought was fantastic, and could I please wait a few minutes while she fished it out from the depths of her laptop. It was painful to sit there, staring at the large screen projection of her file system, as she clicked in and out of folders.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_improving_my_information_infrastructure/Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_improving_my_information_infrastructure/Table of Contents The problem with BigCorp Building my own FAIR system Plain Text as the foundation The Goal Can I do better? Learn Touch Typing Get better at using Text Editors, particularly learn about the Modal Editing paradigm Search my old mail archives Getting better at the Terminal Syncing, Backups and Version Control Scripting for Automation A Better Website Notes I find it inspiring to read about how people manage their personal information infrastructure.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_todo.dir_is_like_todo.txt_but_with_luggage_space/Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_todo.dir_is_like_todo.txt_but_with_luggage_space/My tasks lived in todo.txt some years ago. It was close to perfect for managing my everyday tasks. Razor fast, easy to work with, and it was supported by most text editors I used. Compared to the bloated, database-driven, task managers I had dealt with up until then, todo.txt was a cool breeze in hell. There was one problem though. todo.txt uses one line per task, and sometimes this was not enough.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_organising_my_org_files/Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_organising_my_org_files/In my last post, I wrote about how I manage my projects in Org-Mode, an Emacs mode for writing documents, managing tasks and a bunch of other over-powered things in plain text format. This post is about how I organise my Org files – the documents that contain all my projects and notes. What is an Org File? Let’s start with a brief, bazillionth description of what an Org file is.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_how_org-mode_helps_with_my_project_management/Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_how_org-mode_helps_with_my_project_management/I started using emacs a few years ago and it has slowly become the one application that is always open on any computer I use. This post is on how org-mode helps me with my project management. I’ve been using Emacs for about three years now, and I think it’s about time I started writing about my Emacs experiences. Not that I have anything particularly useful to add to the ocean of Emacs related material out there, rather, I hope it serves to illustrate how a non-technical user uses Emacs.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_of_band-aids_fashion_and_linux/Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_of_band-aids_fashion_and_linux/I can’t correctly recall if this occurred in high school or at art school, but one morning I found myself putting on a pair of canvas shoes with a hole in them. Keds, I think they were called. Anyway, the social inadequacy that had arisen from my inadvertent (podiaquacy?) made me want to do something about it. So I stuck a band-aid over the hole, and drew a voice balloon next to it, with OUCH printed in nice, bold letters.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_i_added_notelynxpro_to_my_thinking_toolbox/Sun, 02 Feb 2020 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_i_added_notelynxpro_to_my_thinking_toolbox/I purchased another obscure software license. This one is for my android tablet and phone. It’s called Notelynx and it fits a very particular need within my toolbox. It’s for Note-Taking for when I’m reading books. (I use Markor for clipping snippets of Articles I’m reading, because the work flow is different there. A really good article may have no more than 3 or 4 snippets that I will grab. I just append them to a running plain text file in Markor.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_loductivity_software/Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_loductivity_software/It seems to me that there are two kinds of productivity applications. One seems utterly simple upfront but it turns out that this simplicity lets complex arrangements emerge from it. The other seems a little complicated at first, but with a little orientation, it’s apparent complications eventually reduce to simple output. Take Microsoft or Google’s to-do apps for instance. For someone who has never used a task manager of this type before, there may be a slight learning curve on how to setup a task with its due dates and labels.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_linking_linkedin_posts/Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_linking_linkedin_posts/I’ve been writing tiny 1300 character posts on LinkedIn over the last couple of years. Today I went browsing through those archives and realised there are some topics i revisit often and in different contexts. Information and knowledge management, for instance, seems to come up a lot. A fair bit on design philosophy too. Also that odd thing, design-thinking, but those posts were largely to make it clear that I’m a sceptic.