Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

Thunderbird 2.0 RC vs. Mail (OS X): Tag your Inbox

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

The Thunderbird development team has released a Developer Preview of the next Thundebird Browser. Check out the Release Notes for Thunderbird v2.0b1. While I’m using Thunderbird as my default email-client on Windows (Bootcamp), I’ve never switched to Thunderbird when running OS X. I always liked the clean GUI of Mail on OS X and I’m using some […]

PhilVault: Getting things organized, encrypted and secure

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Uhm, once again about computers? Yes todays special is about OS X (of course) and how you can improve the work with your data. Let me clarify what I mean with the term ‘work with your data’. Most actions can be summarized by one of these four major actions: use (edit, view, listen…) organize (to find it again) secure […]

Leaving Home - How to organize and secure your data I

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

What is ‘my data’ and what’s not? In my understanding data is ‘content I’ve created’ and ‘content I use’ - pretty easy. Everything else is either setup-information or … just stuff. But what about MP3s and Movies? Music and Movies is data that is not related to my person and information that I share or willing […]

The danger of meta-organizing

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Today I’ve heard the first time about ‘meta-organizing’. It can be defined as procrastination through constantly refining your system of GTD (Getting Things Done) so that productivity suffers. The term ‘meta-organizing’ can be very accurate when organizing doesn’t lead to concrete action steps. Interesting. I need to go back to work, building my new […]