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Use a Mind Map to Organize Your Week [Mind Mapping] 30 October 2008 at 8:00 am by admin

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/10/mind_mappging.jpg” width=”221″ height=”150″ align=”right” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ align=”right”/For freelancers or anyone juggling multiple tasksmdash;not necessarily multiple emprojects/emmdash;Raj Dash at the FreelanceSwitch blog recommends using mind-mapping software to create a weekly organizational planner that can be crafted to fit your exact needs. In his case, that’s a Sunday-to-Saturday diagram, with each day stacked with colored tasks (green for billable work, pink for research for another task, etc.) and each day exported to a spreadsheet to total up the day’s billables and work output. Raj’s example is do-able with most mind-mapping (or design) programs, including the multi-platform, no-cost a href=”http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page”FreeMind/a, and makes what you’re doing and what you’ve done a visual affair. Got your own task-scheduling map to share? Post it in the comments. div class=”related”a href=”http://freelanceswitch.com/working/managing-multiple-freelance-gigs-with-mind-maps/”Managing Multiple Freelance Gigs With Mind Maps/a [FreelanceSwitch]/div/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ Read It Later Integrates with Google Reader, Non-Firefox Browsers [Featured Firefox Extension] By admin 30 October 2008 at 7:30 am and have No Comments

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/10/greaditlater.png” width=”179″ height=”140″ align=”right” align=”right” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ /Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Previously a href=”http://lifehacker.com/396448/read-it-later-adds-firefox-3-integration-offline-reading”featured/a bookmarking extension Read It Later has added a host of new features in a recent update, including a couple that open up the service to non-Firefox browsers. The most obvious features are a check-to-save tool that adds the add-on’s signature checkmarks to Google Reader items, as well as an option to use the pageview-counting a href=”http://postrank.com/”PostRank/a service to rank your to-read items. Those using non-Firefox browsers can now get an account and bookmarklets from the a href=”http://readitlaterlist.com/”Read It Later List/a site, and enable an option in the Firefox add-on to have everything you mark for later reading saved as an offline copy. Wondering what all the fuss is about a seemingly simple bookmark tool? Check out Gina’s a href=”http://lifehacker.com/5045929/shelf-web-pages-instantly-and-get-back-to-work-with-readitlater”screenshot tour/a of the a href=”http://lifehacker.com/5039968/mozilla-crowns-best-firefox-3-extensions”award-winning/a add-on. Read It Later is a free download and works wherever Firefox does. div class=”related”a href=”https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7661″Read It Later/a [Mozilla Add-Ons]/div/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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+ Get Team Projects Done Faster with Scrumy [Project Management] By admin 23 October 2008 at 6:58 pm and have No Comments

Free webapp Scrumy helps teams manage and complete projects that will feel familiar to anyone who’s used Scrum collaboration techniques developing software. Frustrated when cheap sticky notes refused to stay stuck to the wall, the folks from Knockout Apps decided to develop a digital solution. A free version is available, but to go pro it’ll cost you $7 a month or $60 a year and you’ll get extra features like automatically generated burndown charts to track your progress from day to day. Plus, you won’t randomly get a clip from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air instead of your project. Check out the demo, and if you’re not convinced, check out the team’s “Professional Infomercial” after the jump.

Scrumy [scrumy.com]