Some bits and pieces: Mindmapping has long been dominated by MindManager, which is a great tool, but has its weaknesses (I find the latest version to be very slow, even on small maps.) A new alternative has emerged from the mindmapping king himself, Tony Buzan: iMindMap. Available only in Beta at the moment, it looks promising.… Read More »
This is the first in a number of posts about RSI, or Repetitive Strain Injury, the subject of this week’s column, out tomorrow. Here is a collection of software designed to ease RSI. RSI software tries to help in a number of ways: working out how long you’ve been at the keyboard and reminds you… Read More »
Bleeding Edge, always worth a look, points to a new Firefox extension for saving material off the web: Zotero. It not only does a great job of storing globs of web pages or the whole thing but it has an academic bent too, allowing you to store bibiographic information too. That said, it’s not musty:… Read More »
Is blogging kept alive by office-bound shirkers? Some blogs get huge amounts of comments, which always makes me wonder: When do people actually find the time to write these things? I can understand folk adding a comment if it’s something work related, but if it’s a blog about soccer, this can hardly be considered vital… Read More »
Some stuff I thought you might like: Is the search for productivity getting out of hand? Merlin Mann, who writes a blog on productivity (better words, he says, are ‘flow’ or ‘efficiency’) points out the absurdity of his readers trying every trick he mentions. “It’s like, hey, whoa guys, easy. We’re just talking here. This… Read More »