Year-End Productivity Planning: Must-Read Blog List

There’s something about the end of the year that inspires us to reevaluate our own work habits and decide whether they are helping or hindering us. The advent of the new year and the desire for a fresh start (along with the usually-slower holiday week pace) makes it a natural time to clean out our desks and plan for new year business goals.

The blogosphere is bursting with great ideas and tools for fine-tuning your routines and achieving your goals. Here’s some great blogs that are all about efficiency:

Unclutterer: The name says it all.  Offers daily tips on keeping a tidy and organized office. Even the elegant and eh… uncluttered site design will inspire a desk purge.

Lifehacker:  An oldie but a goodie – has MacGyver-esque tips on all sorts of stuff that will improve how you work and live. Topics range from making your own butter to the top 10 ways to lockdown data.

GTD Times:  For the serious Getting Things Done/David Allen devotee. Elegant site featuring GTD wisdom  from a distingished lineup of contributors.

Productivity501: Packed with productivity tips about money, technology, time management, going paperless and general organization. Offers free e-mail courses on overcoming procrastination, using lists and desk organization.

Put Things Off: Despite suggesting procrastination in the title, Put Things Off features articles on all sorts of organizational topics as well as an ebook, Todoodlist, about using paper to achieve simplicity.

43 Folders: Another classic, has interesting articles on the link among  attention, focus and creativity

Organize IT: Offers practical advice on personal development with an emphasis on GTD principles. The author has a huge list of links to other productivity/GTD blogs he likes.

This is a short list, so please feel free to share your favorite productivity blogs in the comments…

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2 Responses to “Year-End Productivity Planning: Must-Read Blog List”
  1. Dan 22 December 2008 at 4:31 am #

    Nice list. I would add http://www.zenhabits.net

    And for implementing GTD you can use this web-based application:

    http://www.Gtdagenda.com

    You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
    A mobile version is available too.

  2. The Editor 22 December 2008 at 7:35 am #

    Thanks, Dan – I shoud have included ZenHabits in my post, as I’ve visited many times. Also – thanks for the tip on gtdagenda.com!