Why Boring Desktops are Good

Some of us in the office are fed up with beautiful, distracting desktop backgrounds. So we’ve changed them to a medium grey:

The solid grey reduces distractions and creates a nice neutral backdrop for design work. But it’s boring. So boring, it makes you want to spend less time mesmerized in front of the computer. That’s […]

How to always remember GTD

While browsing Flickr for apolitical images of puppy dogs, sunsets, and flowers, I found this little gem:

It’s Stefanos Karagos’s nicely-designed diagram of the classic GTD workflow, now conveniently in a desktop wallpaper. Available in seven sizes, it’s formatted to fit most screen resolutions.

The next time you’re daydreaming about piling instead of filing—or putting things off […]