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Time Management Videos:

www.TomOnTime.com is my repository of videos about time management.

Episode guide:

Bad at time management: 2
Different tools for different days: 4
Emergencies: 43
Handling major outages: 43
Meetings, avoiding wasteful ones: 40
Meetings, making more effective: 41
Needing to meet with my boss: 1
Out of office: 42
Planning your day: 4
Routines: 1
Task Management: 8, 9, 10, 10a
Turning chaos into routines; 1
Vacations, preparing for: 42
What to do with all this free time? 44
Why is time management difficult for sysadmins? 3
Why we're bad at time management: 2

PDA (electronic)

DateBook6 by PIMLICO Software. Turns a Palm-based PDA into something powerful enough to use The Cycle System. TheCycleAndDateBook explains how to configure it to do The Cycle.
Emacs Org-Mode: Emacs users celebrate! Org-Mode gives you a powerful todo-list system that is compliant with The Cycle. Check out the website or watch the Google Video to learn more.

PAA (paper)

Moleskin: OMG! 365 days, one-page-per-day, and the entire thing fits in your pocket. You have to see it to believe it. Sadly, once they sell out for the year, you have to wait for next year's edition!
- Here is an article about the 2010 edition: New 2010 Moleskines are available
- Order this on Amazon: Order it
https://plannerpads.com Looks interesting. Anyone tried it? Let me know!
FranklinCovey makes binders and stationary that works well for The Cycle System. [Note: I disagree with Covey's politics but I hold my nose and buy his refills every year.] plus software for printing your own sheets
Levenger Circa fastening system -- Joe Sharp pointed out that while he now uses a PDA, his PAA was a 3x5 card-based system using the ingenious Levenger Circa fastening system. His designed for the cards was inspired by the Mind Manager program.
PocketMod System for printing your own sheets.
DIY PAA Planner, print your own (classic sized) sheets, based on templates in TMSA. Designed by Joseph Kern

PIM (software)

Appigo Todo for iPhone is simple and powerful, with great syncing (but not yet to Google Tasks ). (This is what Tom Limoncelli currently uses.)
OmniFocus for the Mac has excellent iPhone GPS integration.
Life Balance -- Life Balance by Llama Graphics is fantastic (and mentioned in the book).
TaskPaper for the Mac by Hog Bay Software is as easy to use as paper
Remember the Milk is a web-based Todolist that also offers client software for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry, and can be integrated into the web interface of Google Mail and Google Calendar

New ideas and tips (possibly for future editions)

Write up my daily todo list during my commute. Works great for me because I live in NYC so I can write while I commute. (submitted by mec)
"Eat the worm": pick a task that I dread, that I've been procrastinating, and do that first thing in the morning. (submitted by mec)
in Chapter 13 section "How to Automate", "Step 1: Do It Manually" - the most obvious tool for this is the shell history but it goes unmentioned. I should also point out the "script" command in unix and other similar things in Windows.
Usefull new technology... online Todo-Lists like RememberTheMilk or ToodleDo: I use RememberTheMilk not only for Todos and suchlike, but also have configured my monitoring system to send alerts there - if something breaks down, it automatically ends up on my Todo list.

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