Black Belt Productivity

I work in a corporate environment. So as you can imagine, we are using Microsoft products exclusively here at the office. So I am constantly looking for ways to make Outlook more effective and efficient.

My use of Outlook has been streamlined a bit recently. I have used some keyboard shortcuts to create new emails (CTRL+Shift+M) and file memos away in my reference folder (CTRL+Shift+V) for a while now. However, I still opened about 7 windows in Outlook to keep my calendar, reference folder, action folder, notes, contacts and other things handy.

There is a better way.

Jason and I have been tweeting for a little over a year now. We have both established a long list of friends that we have met through twitter. Last night, we decided that we wanted Black Belt Productivity to have an official presence on twitter. So we created the @blackbeltprod twitter id (bbp was taken by someone else, to our chagrin).

Not sure what twitter is, watch this video located at CommonCraft. It explains it really well. (I tried to embed the video here, but could never get it to NOT screw up the formatting of the rest of the post.)

Yesterday, I was interviewed by Harlem Quijano and Peter Nikolaidis from the Fresh Ubuntu podcast. I have been a fan of Fresh Ubuntu for quite some time, and it was an honor for them to ask me to be on. We had a good time, and I got to give a brief overview of GTD and how it may evolve technologically speaking.

Peter has began to practice GTD, and Harlem was interested in what it was all about. Hopefully, I will be able to make a return appearance so that we can delve into some more GTD topics a little more in-depth.