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Back to School: Keep an Academic Reading Journal

Aside from partying, the thing you're probably going to do most in college is read. Assuming you're at all serious about your education, you'll read so much that words will come out your ears. Unfortunately, much of what

10 Powerful Success Strategies

If you’re serious about creating lasting and significant change in your world – as opposed to merely thinking and talking about it for another year – there are a few things you might want to do in order to help make thos

Scrum for One

That’s a funny word, isn’t it? “Scrum.” Scrum is a project management strategy for software development teams. The name comes from rugby (I guess) where it refers to the start of a new play. In the programming world, it’

Managing Your Social Network Addiction

Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Friendster, Tumblr, Xanga... the list goes on and on. And if you are any sort of tech savy, there is good chance you are a member of multiple social networks. Even

10 Great Notebooks Productive People Love

Although I'm going on 10 years as a PDA/Smartphone user (Palm IIIe - Handspring Visor Neo - Treo 180g - Zire 72 - Treo 680 - Blackberry 8310), I love notebooks. A good pen on nice paper makes me much happier than the fee

What To Do When You Run Out Of Ideas

It’s happened to everyone at one time or another. You’re going along, producing and feeling creative, and then, suddenly, you run out of ideas. You’re stuck. You search high and low for inspiration. You look back on your

9 Lists To Keep Updated, and Keep Handy

I bought a Moleskine notebook a long time ago, and for a while it got zero use. My productivity system is totally digital and Web-based, as is my personal journal. I bought the Moleskine because it looked awesome, and be

13 Things to Do with a Moleskine Notebook

We here at Lifehack have been huge advocates of the Moleskine as a tool for ubiquitous capture -- for jotting down ideas whenever and wherever they occur to you. They're also great for keeping your task list and other in

10 Great Moleskine Hacks

In honor of Lifehack’s partnership with Moleskine, I’ve decided to post all Moleskine-related posts this week. Today, I’ll describe 10 cool ways to get a little more out of your Moleskine. While most of these hacks are a

9 Places to Always Keep Pen and Paper Handy

Wouldn't it be nice if ideas came to you when they were supposed to? You sit down, decide to be creative, and boom: you're creative. The juices flow, the ideas are endless, and your brilliance just runneth over onto the

The Power of Intentional Attention

Are you taking it all in? That is, are you sure that you’re noticing everything that matters to you, or could matter to you if only you’d noticed it? Could you do more with your life – or just enjoy it more – if you were

When Are You Most Creative?

When are you at your creative peak? That is, what time of day do ideas flow most easily for you? What activities bring your best ideas to the surface where you can most easily gather them up? A recent survey by the Crown

The Art of Note Taking in the Digital Age

Note taking is as ancient an art as any. There are hefty tomes on the subject of how to best capture and organize information in a swift and legible manner and courses devoted to the subject in colleges. And yet, the mos

Managing the Ebb and Flow of Energy

Humans aren’t machines; we don’t have a constant source of power from which we draw to perform complicated functions all the time, without breaks. Rather, our power supplies—or our energy levels—dip and rise with each ho

Back to Basics: The Tickler File

A long-time standby in the productivity realm, a tickler file is a reminder system intended to act as an adjunct to your regular calendaring and scheduling system . Although there are several different kinds of tickler f