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There are some lovely games made by Bitsy. They are both refreshing and retro at the same time.

No, it that case you will check your calendar and decide based on your priorities in life do you want to reschedule a task you have planned with the new task. With calendar-based systems you usually only plan the current day and for other days you have rough outline how time will be spent.

I'm glad this is being shared, because I struggled for years with GTD and couldn't find an alternative anywhere. When I started putting tasks in my calendar my productivity skyrocketed. I know when things will get done and it forces me to make tough choices. I have to decide what will get done, how much time will it take and when, but also what WON'T get done and forces me to say "no". We only have limited amount of time - the calendar makes it so clear.

This approach takes much practice to learn how much time everything takes, self-discipline and flexibility when it takes more than planned. The end result is much better control of personal time. Instead of just writing a next action for each project and being anxious whenever I get a new project request from a client whether I will have enough time to finish it by deadline; now, I can estimate project and tell from my schedule when each project will be finished.

To-do list has place in my system as either list of small tasks that I will do in one block of scheduled time. Also, I use list as someday lists, for example next books I will read. I still use some principles from GTD, but I no longer have never-ending to-do lists that paralyse me. Calendar forces me to create a realistic schedule.

This is not for everyone, and based by the popularity of GTD, I guess only minority of people can live in their calendar and schedule almost every activity. For those who are interested, I suggest starting with reading Peter Bregman: 18 minutes and Julie Morgenstern: Time management.

Success of this program can be explained by the social connections made during the course - teachers were all having better quality of life - also students were shown different way of life through the lectures. If teachers were good as it seems they have backed their lessons with real life stories. In a way, the daily lessons were their out of the situation they were in.

Isn't there a way to create a database of torrents without using http protocol, by relying only on peer2peer network? It would be much harder to shutdown each peer individually.

Controlling your daily habits is a goal.

With $20 budget and 4 versions this seems like a random spike in data. If you are going to use this method I suggest to use Google AdWords Campaign Experiments (built-in tool). It will tell you if your results are statistically significant. There is also Excel spreadsheet to download and play with numbers to see if results are significant.

Second caution. This approach only tests what's the best name for your ad. It doesn't tell you what is the best name for your product.

Can you give links to more information about Austrian economics and how it contributes to poverty?

And this area is biased in both direction. From one side you have family groups and from other side you have game industry. And there are studies showing both sides. That's why meta studies are needed.

Meta study had to be completed before 2010 to be published in Mar 2010. FAQ was published in 2009, I guess at the same time the paper was submitted for review. That's the reason for having same conclusions.

Full text: http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/abstracts/2010...

I'm not in target market or I don't understand its benefits. If I have to choose photos and email it to them, how is that easier than choosing photos and uploading them to shutterfly?

Tough one. Few suggestions:

#1 Track your time for few days and categorize each minute of what you do. How many of them are productive and pushing your business forward? In most cases 20% of your time is bringing you 80% of the gains. Pareto principle.

#2 Are you focused on few important things or your focus is spread to too many things? In most cases it is better not to do somethings rather than do them badly. Focus on the 20% from the point #1.

#3 Do you get enough rest and fun? If you work too hard you are less productive and with exhaustion it takes you 2-3 times longer to complete tasks than that you would do with enough energy/rest/focus. Have at least one day off (or 8 consecutive hours) a week and try to relax few times a day with one bigger break and several smaller ones.

You covered most viable options. If I were you I would continue with #4 and give that feature of monthly subscription to generate steady stream of revenue. You seem to have a product/market fit so in this situation I would outsource someone for a help with marketing, it seems you have good SEO potential, you can find good companies/freelancers on Elance. If you can separate wheat from chaff you'll reasonable SEO service for about $500 a month - I'm currently paying European based company for SEO services that much - zenoseo. If you have more cash find someone to help you with PPC, like Google Adwords, run few cheap test campaigns and see if ROI is good, if good continue otherwise wait some time. Additional customers you get from marketing will give you more cash. Then hire a developer. If at that time you still need cash try to get an investment. The simplest way to start is with angels. See if there is local angel group or try AngelList - there are good guides how to pitch to an investor. Good luck!

Putting name and price aside I don't like deep nesting approach for lists. I tend to have too many levels and it's cumbersome to click so many times. I like to have an option to see all my tasks at same level and get nice overview of everything I want to do.

It's even more expensive than OmniFocus - $79 for life, and this is $120 for a year.

Didn't make sense to me either. Now I realized it optimizes static content: css, javascrips and images on the firs run, then it serves optimized version until you update them. There is some latency to fetching dynamic content and that's the reason optimized sites are slower on this test.

Does this work with dynamic web pages, like Facebook or news.ycombinator.com?

Thanks for the reply. I meant that the overhead is going to your page, instead of just shooing an email from an email client; it is minimal but still it's a big step to remember your site.

I commented this because I had similar idea before. I planned to have it more public with points, so most thank you notes would be public and it would say "Jack Jones thankend Jill Jones" with a note. Each of them would get points each time they thank and get thanked (Two counters). In a way this would be like recommendations on linkedin. People would have their profile pages with all thanks and they could use it to show if off.

An idea: video thank you notes, that could go for a premium. You can easily capture and record video from a browser. That's more personal than physical note.

Interesting idea. I see that your main competitor is email and other media. People send thank you notes by email or Facebook these days. For me your solutions is less personal and it is crating an overhead: you are still using email/facebook to send the message. Just my $0.02. Unless you plan do add something on top of this to make it more personal or rewarding to use it?

Do you think this deal was before Safari's "Reading List"? I don't see bright future with ReadItLater, now that we have Safari's built in feature other browsers will follow.

Thanks.

I agree they are biased toward Facebook. They also have valid points. Maybe the future of social networks is like email. Each of us will use platform of choice for communication on a common protocol.

It raises some interesting points, like that it feels like ghost town. For me it does if I look at circles like "Family" or "Friends" while "Early adopters" is very active. Similar is on the Facebook. On the other hand I think that circles are usable and a natural way to sort people in groups/circles. Only time will tell who will prevail and it will be interesting to watch this fight.

Interesting. People could use it to choose their profile pictures.

But it doesn't work: I get 404: Not Found after authorizing from Facebook.

I've also never liked those coming soon pages. They usually give no information, only a vague promise and signup box. Example of that is LaunchRock. My sense it doesn't work, if anyone has any statistics ... I'd guess that less than 2-3% subscribed share their link to get to the priority list.

My suggestion for new startups is to put an information-rich page with screenshots and explanations how that idea came to life, how it will change your life, etc - of course if your goal is to get people interested and to signup :)

What is uncreative about twitter, hulu, etc.? Anyway here is the list of top100 rails sites by Alexa rank: http://rails100.pbworks.com/w/page/8815411/Alexa-Rankings There are other lists online.

Same here.