Nearly every time management system advocates to-do lists in some form to help keep us on track. Consider turning that advice on its head and make a do-not-do list instead.
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Success Magazine blogger Chelsea Greenwood says to-do lists can be helpful, but only to a point. Eventually, they can get so long and unwieldy [...]
Windows only: We’ve often featured distraction-free writing tools like Writeroom to help you focus while writing, and now reader Liang has created a solution that will turn the application of your choice into a distraction-free zone.
Once you’ve downloaded the Universal Darkroom script, which requires that you’ve already installed AutoHotkey, you can simply double-click on it [...]
If you find yourself wishing that your netbook was easier to use in the dark, this tutorial will help you add an LED right into the lid and keep those keys illuminated.
The easiest way to go about solving the problem would be to stick a USB reading light in your netbook bag and plug that [...]
Whether you have good health insurance or none at all, the costs of medications can be astronomical. Here’s a tip for stretching your dollars at the pharmacy.
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First of all, to take advantage of this great tip, the first thing you need to do is run the idea past your doctor. Here’s how [...]
It was inevitable that Woolworths would come up with a counter-claim to match Coles’ strategy of national pricing on 8,000 products. But do savings on 3,500 products really amount to much?
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Woolworths says it has permanently reduced the price on 3,500 products over the last few months, and notes that it has offered state-based [...]
Are you habitually late? Before writing it off to laziness or being disorganised, consider that maybe you’ve developed a habit of pre-meditated lateness. Get past it by factoring more transition time into your day.
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Harvard Business Review’s Peter Bregman comes clean as someone who was chronically late everywhere he went. Finally he admitted to [...]
Google Chrome (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you tend to have tons of small, hard-to-read tabs open at a time, navigate through them with TabJump, a Chrome extension that lets you open recently closed tabs, jump to open tabs and group related tabs together.
We’ve all been there before — you open up Wikipedia for a five-minute break, and [...]
Today’s workspace highlights how you can work within the tight constraints imposed by a university dorm and the lacklustre furniture that comes a long with it, and still have a sleek and functional workspace.
Lifehacker reader Drkinggreen took a few tips from Lifehacker about how to build a cheap monitor stand, integrated some LED pucks, and [...]
Keeping a diary when travelling is always wise, but if you’ve ditched the laptop for security or bulk reasons, it can be hard to maintain. OnTheRoad.to adds a travel diary to your iPhone, using the GPS feature to provide an exact record of where you are while you rave about how great (or terrible) it [...]
When TV just gets too boring, there’s little else you can do to entertain yourself while on your exercise equipment. Reader Andy decided to stick it to boredom and build a laptop stand out of just some PVC pipe and some wire.
The design is fairly simple, and doesn’t even require any detailed directions. All you [...]
