Five Best Time-Tracking Applications
Where does the time go? Whether you need to know for billing purposes or just want a better idea of how your work day is split up, you can always answer that question with a good time-tracking application. Photo by judepic. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite time-tracking tool, and now we're back with the five most popular time-tracking applications to help you track the time yo
ToDoList Handles Subtasks Galore
Windows only: No-nonsense task manager ToDoList is small, lightweight, and portable (so you can run it from your thumb drive), and it offers the feature other task managers frequently and strangely lack: the ability to track multiple levels of nested tasks. Here's a screenshot of the nesting in action. In addition to nested subtasks, ToDoList sports a large settings pane directly beneath the task
Five Best Desktop Search Applications
Click to viewAs hard drives grow ever cheaper and capacious, keeping track of every file single file is a job suited to no one. Luckily desktop search applications have improved in leaps and bounds beyond the useless Windows file search dialog of yesteryear, leaving users with a wealth of free and diverse desktop search tools at their fingertips. On Tuesday we asked you about your favorite desktop
Dia Does Powerful Diagrams and Flowcharts
Windows/Linux only: Open-source application Dia is a robust flowchart and diagram tool. Like a free version of Microsoft Visio, Dia provides you with all the tools you need to create anything from a simple flowchart to a powerful and complex diagram, and files can be saved in many formats, including a Visio Drawing-compatible VDX filetype. Dia is free, Windows and Linux only. If you'd prefer build
Reclaim Memory by Mastering Windows' Task Manager
The best way to speed up your PC is to give it more available memory—but freeing up as much of the memory you already have is cheaper and easier than cracking open your case to install a new stick of RAM. It takes a lot of memory to get a modern Windows system up and ... well, not doing anything in particular, really. Between cryptic system processes, confusing "helper" applications, and backgroun
Download of the Day: Witch (Mac)
Mac OS X only: Freeware window switcher Witch gives you more control over how you access and switch between open windows with your keyboard. For most purposes, Witch mimics the Alt-Tab behavior we've gotten used to on Windows computers, meaning that rather than switching between applications, you can switch between single windows. Not only that, but Witch will pull minimized windows out of the Doc
Customize Windows XP with TweakUI
One of the best tools for fine-tuning Windows XP is the free TweakUI PowerToy utility from Microsoft. TweakUI digs deep into Windows' settings and can customize its behavior dozens of ways, from how many icons appear on the Alt-Tab dialog to Explorer context menu choices to what your program shortcuts look like. TweakUI's been around forever and we've mentioned it here and there throughout the yea
Excel Gantt chart template
Designer David Seah uses Excel to draw up project Gantt charts and offers his spreadsheet template for download. David says: I'm basically just using Excel like graph paper, and there is absolutely no automatic calculation at all. On the other hand, it's probably a lot EASIER to keep up to date, through copying/pasting and inline annotation, than actual software like Microsoft Project. A Gantt cha
Geek to Live: Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools
by Gina Trapani Getting organized, focused and productive doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. We've reviewed thousands of time-saving applications and gadgets here at Lifehacker over the past year and a half, but a handful really shine when it comes down to getting your stuff done, and most of them are simple, widely available, free or almost free. Here are my top 10 picks for best free and che
Top 10 Clipboard Tricks
Click to viewOne of the greatest features the point and click interface brought to personal computers is the clipboard - that invisible, temporary shelf you use more times per day than Google. If you think the clipboard is only about Ctrl+C, you're missing out. Several utilities can turbocharge your clipboard and track, transfer and reformat the clipboard to your heart's content. After the jump, o
New Quicksilver for Windows app Skylight looks very promising
New Quicksilver for Windows app Skylight looks very promising Windows only: Freeware application Skylight is a file and application launcher of the Quicksilver ilk, providing quick access to programs, files, and then some. Anyone who's spent much time with Quicksilver on the Mac knows what a huge productivity boost the wildly extensible Quicksilver can provide. Hell, I've covered Quicksilver from
Getting Things Done with Google Notebook
Click to viewFans and followers of the Getting Things Done personal productivity system have hacked all sorts of ways to GTD in different applications, from Microsoft Outlook to plain text to Gmail. But one of Google Labs' less-hyped applications, Notebook, is very well-suited to instant capture and easy processing of your GTD lists. Today I've got the scoop on how to manage your inbox, projects,
GTD desktop wallpaper
GTDer Stefanos Karagos has designed Getting Things Done computer wallpaper that will keep the infamous processing flow in your range of vision all day long. Chant to yourself "Is it actionable?" with Zen-like calm as you power through your inbox, email or otherwise, every day. The wallpaper GTD flowchart comes straight from the book and is free to use. (No word on how The David's legal team feels
Download of the Day: Midnight Inbox 1.0 Preview (Mac)
Mac OS X only: A pre-release version 1.0 of previously-mentioned organizational software Inbox makes following David Allen's Getting Things Done productivity system to the letter dead easy. Rather than shoe-horning your current tools into your GTD system, Inbox is custom-built to help you GTD from the get go. Collect, process, organize and review files, notes, to-do's and bookmarks all in the attr
Geek to Live: Incorporate text files onto your desktop
by Gina Trapani Click to view You've gotten into the habit of stowing away information into text files. But how do you make sure your todo.txt doesn't languish in the dark depths of your hard drive, untouched? If you keep your daily worklog, grocery shopping list, todo's, project ideas or even your calendar in text files, you can embed that information right onto your Windows desktop automatically
Download of the Day: GTDGmail
Firefox extension GTDGmail integrates your Getting Things Done implementation directly in your Gmail account. Gmail has always been a good GTD tool, but GTDGmail makes setting up of all your contexts, projects, and next actions a breeze. Honestly, I already have my own system of labels and whatnot in Gmail that I love, but after looking over and playing around with GTDGmail, I'm very tempted to di
Geek to Live: Keep your calendar in plain text with Remind
by Gina Trapani Plain text is the most portable, munge-able, searchable, dependable, and software-agnostic file format there is. We've covered how to track your tasks and projects in a todo.txt file; today we're going to extend our plain text personal information manager to include a full-on calendar, using an old school UNIX program called Remind. Prompted by a great Remind primer posted on 43 Fo
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