Category Archives: Productivity

The Ultimate in Productivity?

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I found it very strange to see this in my list of recommended books on Amazon’s home page.  Clicking through on the “Why is this recommended for you?” link pointed out that this book is written by David Allen.  No, … Continue reading →

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How did I miss this feature?

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I spent a bit of time importing some of my old OneNote notebooks into Evernote today.  There were some notes that worked well, but some didn’t work quite so well.  I imported everything into Local only notebooks to ensure that … Continue reading →

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Live Mesh Updates

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

If you follow my Google Reader Shared Items, you probably saw the Live announcement that there would be Mesh updates today.  I awoke to the Mesh icon in the Dock on my MacBook bouncing away, wanting to update.  The update … Continue reading →

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Productive! Magazine

Posted on November 29, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I juse finished reading the new FREE Productive! Magazine download, a digital magazine about David Allen’s Getting Things Done.  The content was good, but reading a PDF formatted magazine on my 800 pixel tall MacBook screen was a total pain.  … Continue reading →

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Calendar Synchronization

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

For years, my employer has been almost anti-Microsoft.  Yes, we always had Windows laptops with Office on them, but the entire network backend was Sun.  My mailbox is on a Sun Java System Communication server, which I access via LDAP.  … Continue reading →

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mesh.com

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

With the new availability of the Mac client, I’m going to try Live Mesh again.  I was able to get logged in to my account, and download the Mac client.  I’m getting an error trying to log in, but I … Continue reading →

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Sugarsync

Posted on August 24, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I finally installed Sugarsync, and it is mostly working as described.  I installed it on the MacBook and our Windows Server 2003 fileserver.  I still need to install it on my work laptop.  The Pocket PC client is next to … Continue reading →

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Live Mesh – app install location

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

After seeing the news today that the Live Mesh Technical Preview was being updated to more people, and knowing that mobile phone and Mac clients were coming soon, I decided to give it a try.  I have to say that … Continue reading →

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Information Capture

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

After Lifehacker’s recent Hive Five on note takers, I decided that I should share a bit on how I capture information. I used to use One Note a ton.  I really loved it, but found it to be much less … Continue reading →

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Thank god for 3G!

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I got to my office this morning to find the lights out in the parking garage, and a bunch of people milling around the lobby.  Security says that “something blew” around 4:45 am, and the building only had emergency generator … Continue reading →

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