The Power of Community

Priscilla Palmer has put together this massive list of personal development websites.

I see you saying to yourself, "Another list, why should I bother with it". So this is why, Chris Marshall from Martial Development has created The Personal Development Oracle. A Google custom search engine, if you ask the oracle a question it will search for the answer from the personal development blogs on the list.

This is the power of web 2.0, each member of a community puts is his own special contribution of the subject and everybody can enjoy it, with simple tools such as search box.

"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow", Grant Wood

Having a personal organization system is vital for achieving a state of flow in your life. It releases your mind for creativity and growth.

I'm using remember the milk as my task manager.

Why?

• It is simple, clean, streaming and have a zen like feeling to its design. No clutter, everything is clear, and easy to maintain.
  
  
• Great keyboard interface. almost everything can be done from the keyboard. adding tasks, tagging them, prioritizing, updating, adding links/notes/due dates. even batch editing (use the 'm'ulti-mode).
  
  
• used as a module in my personal management system. It has great gadgets for your mobile phone, personalized homepage, calender, maps, dashboard, email, and with the new Google gears feature you don't have to be connected to have your list.
  
  
• using tags and smart lists you can customize the way you using RTM. you can tag task by project, context, location, status, and then have specialized lists using the tags.
  
  
• Sharing tasks is great for project management, family messages and shopping lists.

Here is how I use RTM:

• I have only few lists:
  • Inbox - for fast insertion of tasks, that i can process later.
    
  • tagged - all processed tasks
  • projects - list projects and for every project i have and Outcome, progress, and reference notes.
    
  • goals - prioritized by: short term(few months), medium term (1-3 years), long term (3-20 years)
• I tag every task by project, location, context, and any other tag that come into mind. On my weekly review I go over my tag cloud instead of on lists.
• I use smartlists to have a list of tasks i use. Then I have a RTM gadget on my iGoogle page, in addition to the main RTM gadget that I use as my "hard landscape", that i change to watch the list I want at any given depending on what I work on.
• Get Things Done - on my weekly review I tag tasks I want to complete this week as 'thisweek', then I go over the list and give a due date for each task on the list. I make sure that I have an action for every project I'm working on. This way I know I'm going to make progress on all my projects.
  

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Creating websites

The number of technologies that enable creation and management of webapps with out knowing the first thing about programming is growing by the minute.
This is a very important aspect of web2. That allows anyone with a bit of innovation to create sophisticated applications and content that is accessible by millions of people around the globe.
The power of Internet is no more in the hands of corporations and computer geeks, but in the hands of any creative person.
Here are two such platforms that I found of just today, zimki [web2], durpal [slashdot], and one I used to create my wife's website. Google's page creator