Thursday, March 20, 2008 - Page 2
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Celebrate Discardia Starting Today

If you’ve been putting off doing a good spring cleaning, today’s the day to bite the bullet: March 19th marks the start of “Discardia,” the time of year for you to clean out the old to make room for the new. This five-year-old holiday occurs between the Solistices and Equinoxes (today till April 5th this year) and its creator describes it thusly: Discardia is celebrated by getting rid of stuff and ideas you no longer need. It’s about letting go, abdicating from obligation and guilt, being true to the self you are now. Discardia is the time to get rid of things that no longer add value to your life, shed bad habits, let go of emotional baggage and generally lighten your load.

Shedding emotional baggage and old obligations isn’t exactly a two-step process. For some easy Discardia tips, start on your computer desktop with 10 ways to declutter your digital life. Discardia Discardia Calendar


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Get Things Done in Gmail with GTDInbox

All platforms with Firefox: Previously mentioned Firefox extension GTDGmail has been revamped, renamed, and relaunched as GTDInbox 2.0, and it’s still a fantastic way to organize your email using the Getting Things Done system. GTDInbox sets up labels like Next Actions, Waiting On, and Someday in your Gmail and adds mechanisms to quickly categorize and review your messages the David Allen way. GTDInbox is smart: If you have a message labelled “Next Action” and then label it “Finished,” it automatically removes the action label. GTDGmail can turn starred messages into next actions automatically.


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Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets and Autocomplete

Google rolls out a few impressive new features to its online spreadsheets offering today, including cell autocomplete, iGoogle gadgets, and notifications about collaborative edits. Autocomplete works the way any desktop spreadsheet does: as you type, if the cell contents match a past entry, Spreadsheets will suggest the value. As for data collection and sharing, you already know you can ask others to fill in a spreadsheet with a user-friendly form. Now you can get notifications whenever a sheet gets updated, down to a specific range of cells or via a form. Finally, you can track the status of your spreadsheet on your iGoogle homepage by creating a data widget, which updates as your spreadsheet does. Pretty nifty. Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets, a Directory of Features [Google Operating System]