Use Gmail as a GTD tool (Getting Things Done and using Gmail more productively)

Most of us have probably used email more than a handful of times to remind ourselves to do something, or as a shopping list of sorts. I recently discovered a way to help me be more organized with my emails and tasks using Gmail. It is quick and easy to do.

I will show you how to get important emails and tasks at the top of Gmail, so you will always see (and never forget) the most pressing things in your inbox.

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Organizing your photos in Linux

If you do any sort of photography or photo editing, you will need a photo manager to handle all your photos.

Linux offers quite a few different photo managers and editors. DigiKam, F-Spot and Shotwell are some of the more popular photo managers in Linux. Though these photo managers all have different positive features, the photo manager I prefer to use is a bit less traditional for Linux. It is Google's Picasa. This tutorial will discuss briefly how I organize my photos and why I use Picasa to do so.

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Tip of the Day - File organization

We often create folders to contain a set of organized folders.  For instance, we can create a folder called "Pictures" and have many picture folders inside, or a folder called "Music" and have folders inside that are albums.

When we want to organize some of these folders, we will usually create a folder called "organize" or "sort me."  Something to let us know the content needs to be sorted.

Next time you create a folder like that, call the folder "0rganize."  Use the number 0 instead of the letter o.  It looks almost identical, but because of the zero it will come up first in the list of folders.

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