Benefit: Save time copying and saving information for executing important tasks.
Problem: The Web has a vast amount of information anyone can use to create successful businesses and products… if only you can remember the information when you need it! Research on the web is difficult because of tooo much information!
Practical Productivity Tip: Read you RSS reader with your task list in parallel.
Here’s how:
- Find some information of interest when surfing, something you know you can implement.
- Copy the URL where you found that information into your task management system.
- Add a note to the task explaining – for future reference – what and how to implement the information collected.
Why: Having your task list handy, whether paper or software, helps you keep your thoughts organized when you want to start implementing… you will have everything at your fingertips. Listing information in wikis, note taking applications can waste time because you have to turn that information into tasks afterward.
The Edgewall Trac system works well for this technique.
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Nice tip!
I often cut and paste URLs to posts from my RSS feed into email, then label them “resources” for future reference.
Creating the task right then and there cuts an extra step – and time delay – out of the process of using the information.
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