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BREAKING NEWS: Actor Cliff Robertson Dies

Cliff Robertson, who won an Oscar for his role in the film 'Charly' has died in New York at the age of 88, his long-time secretary says

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Craft the Perfect Calendar and To-Do List This Weekend

By Whitson Gordon

Craft the Perfect Calendar and To-Do List This Weekend

Craft the Perfect Calendar and To-Do List This WeekendIf your productivity routine has begun to feel a bit stale (or your productivity's just not where you'd like it to be), spend some free time setting up a new system to get ahead on work next week.

So you've jump started your productivity to get into your post-summer work, and maybe you're realizing that your productivity system isn't as refined as it could be. Whether you'd like to check out a well-known methodology like David Allen's Getting Things Done or a mix-and-match of other productivity styles, here are some things you can try to integrate into your routine to keep your productivity level up.

Find the Right Tools

If your current calendar isn't doing it for you, check out our hive five on the best desktop calendaring applications. You could always go the traditional paper method, but digital calendars have so many advantages over paper, we highly recommend checking out something like Google Calendar.

When it comes to to-do lists, you've got a lot of choices. Again, though, you can't go wrong with one of the services from our hive five (and their mobile counterparts, for you smartphone users). If you want something simpler, you could always use our very own Gina Trapani's Todo.txt CLI, organize your desktop icons with a new wallpaper, or even turn Gmail into the ultimate GTD inbox. Note that the Gmail route isn't for everybody—many people recommend strictly separating your email from your to-dos.

Organize Your Calendars

Craft the Perfect Calendar and To-Do List This WeekendWe're big advocates of using multiple calendars to balance your work and personal lives, but it can go much farther than that. The more you schedule on one calendar, the more you get confused, so consider splitting it up into a bunch of different calendars to keep the clutter out. That way, you can schedule just about anything—from scheduling your daily work, to eating and sleeping, to a possibilities calendar that helps you use free time productively.

The other big advantage of digital calendaring is the ability to share your calendars with other people. That way, you can keep track of each other's schedules or even find the perfect time for that meeting. And, if you need a little motivation to get things done, you can share your to-dos with Producteev. Speaking of to-do lists...

Effectively Manage Your To-Do List

The most important thing you can do as you craft your to-do list is to make sure you make each item doable. If all you're giving yourself is vague instructions, you're likely to never look at your to-do list, let alone get anything done. If you're having trouble with that, try breaking it down into "For Dummies" level instructions. You'll also want to prioritize those items and separate them into categories, when necessary, so it's not to cluttered.

Craft the Perfect Calendar and To-Do List This WeekendKeep a separate list of your big projects, and make sure you're fulfilling your own goals as well as others. Sometimes, adding a mood-based context to your tasks can help. Remember, also, the things you don't want to do, and finish off those unpleasant-but-necessary tasks firs thing in the morning to make sure it gets out of the way. And, if you've got a specific tasks that's sucking too much of your time, know when to quit so you don't waste all that time. Photo by Courtney Dirks.

Reflect, Review and Revise

Of course, you probably can't perfect a calendaring and to-do system in just one weekend. After using it for a week or two, it's time to go back and see what worked (and more importantly, what didn't). Take stock of what you accomplished that week, or better yet, keep a daily log of everything you get done. And, when work begins to pile up and your to-do list starts overflowing, set aside a "mind sweep" day to get yourself back on track. If you don't analyze your to-do system as well as your to-dos, it'll just get as useless as it was before.

Got any of your own favorite tips that have helped beef up your calendaring or to-do system? Let us know about it in the comments.


You can contact Whitson Gordon, the author of this post, at whitson@lifehacker.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
 
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BREAKING NEWS: 9/11 Memorial Event at Shanksville, Pa.

Vice President Biden and former Presidents Bush and Clinton will speak at 9/11 memorial event in Shanksville, Pa.: Watch live on Fox News and FoxNews.com

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BlogHers on 9/11: Women Writing Our Past, Present and Future

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Hi everyone, 

Last night I sat in a local Chinese restaurant, waiting for takeout for my family and trying to look away from national network news coverage of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I was so disappointed in the treatment of  this world event. The maudlin prose written by the CBS National desk -- something like, "…that fateful day…" -- voicing over horrifying images from 2001 was edited to include breaking news  reports from Time Square of scary new terror threats to New York City. First I was nervous, then I was, frankly, nauseated by the tone, the sheer packaging of it all. 

Today? You are the media -- in no small part due to the seminal event that the World Trade Center bombing became to drive us into blogs for real breaking events, news, stories, opinions and, yes, memorials. Today, no national television news segment could ever capture the tragedy nor its effect on world events and American culture like your voices. In honor of the World Trade Center bombing and what meant to you -- that day, in the years since, in the future -- BlogHer is compiling a list of links off to your stories, your drafts of history. We hope you'll add yours -- there are 40 so far, including: 
 
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