Monday, September 1, 2008 - Page 2
Organise

Take a Knife to Magazines for Efficient Reading

Magazine love Michael Sliwinski slices and dices his favourite magazines before he goes to reduce bulk. He claims this not only gets him through a lot of magazines in record time, but it also decreases the sheer mass of them. (2-Minute Productivity) Speed-Reading Magazines – Episode No.6 [Nozbe Blog]


Communicate

Mutt Delivers Email from the Command Line

If you pine for your long-gone computer lab days of using, well, Pine, or just interested in a quick-access, command-line email client, Mutt might be right up your alley. The program puts a slightly refined text interface on your email, and reading and writing your mail moves pretty much at the speed of thought. There’s only one configuration file to tweak, and it works with POP and IMAP. Here’s a starter guide for setting up Gmail over IMAP with Mutt, and for the adventurous, terminal-happy OS X folks, an OS X primer. Mutt is a free download for Linux/Unix systems. The Mutt E-Mail Client