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By: dejah420

I must have 5 different organizer binders. All of which I start with the greatest of enthusiasms, for I love the idea of being organized. The clean lines, the blank pages, the modular breakup of the...

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By: trii

I love that term - productivity porn - it so captures the whole industry.

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By: nflorin

I would be remiss if I did not bring up the previously mentioned the PocketMod, which is so cute and quite obviously the Greatest Planner Ever. PocketMods have kept my life coherent since at least...

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By: jack_mo

the fetishism and lite-spiritualist gobbledygook that surrounds productivity porn is less compelling by far Aye, that and the impression that the productivity heads spend all their time re-arranging...

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By: hob

I started with a simple to-do list pad; then I realized that I got more done if I copied it out every day, leaving off the stuff I'd crossed off, so I had a fresh start every morning. After a while, I...

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By: obiwanwasabi

Why not roll your own Because I'm in my @Procrastinate context.

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By: SeizeTheDay

I thought that this was a fantastic post. Thanks rossination.

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By: itsjustanalias

I used version of the DIY planner, the hipster PDA and a plain old pen and paper in my last job (Quality Assurance Manager in a little pharmaceutical company)... they took my Palm sychronisability...

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By: cubby

while i really love looking at all this stuff, i decided a while back that paying for a good planner can be just as fabulous and fetish worthy and less time consuming. $15 for a moleskine and ive got...

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By: rossination

Could I get that in a tag cloud, please?

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By: cgc373

None of those links seems to work, blasdelf.

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By: blasdelf

Tired of all those cheap poorly-concieved faddish organizers of dubious usefulness being pushed down your throat by self-promoting hipster blogtards? Why not roll your own with Google maps 37Signals...

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By: jessamyn

Just a wee bit o' snark, but I love the Lifehack group on Flickr.

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By: cccorlew

I'm stilll pissed that AFTER I got a daytimer so I'd be more organized I found out that I'd have to write stuff in it, and then check it all the time for it to work.

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By: rossination

In the time it took you to write that comment, I made myself a "next action" : sort through chaff.

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By: mischief

there's usually some good stuff hidden amongst the crap ... but is sorting through the chaff worth the time?

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By: rossination

Lord Hifi: I agree with you, to an extent. It's funny when these sites so unabashedly praise what they even admit is 'productivity porn'. Nonetheless, there's usually some good stuff hidden amongst the...

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By: hifiparasol

Well, waxbanks, I just re-read your post. Now I look like a dork. Maybe Cory Doctorow will write a long post on BB detailing what a dilbert I am.

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By: hifiparasol

Remember a couple of years ago when the Internet was abuzz with talk of the hipster PDA? And it was just a bunch of frigging index cards? But Cory Doctorow and Jason Kottke got boners over it, so it...

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By: waxbanks

I've been an occasional visitor to this site for a long time now. The DIYPlanner is a well-designed and handy little resource; the fetishism and lite-spiritualist gobbledygook that surrounds...

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