Philonoist.net » Productivity http://www.philonoist.net (noun, Rare.) A lover of learning. Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:38:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sweetness of the Day – Expensr.com http://www.philonoist.net/2007/10/08/sweetness-of-the-day-expensrcom/ http://www.philonoist.net/2007/10/08/sweetness-of-the-day-expensrcom/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:57:22 +0000 Adam http://www.philonoist.net/2007/10/08/sweetness-of-the-day-expensrcom/ It’s been a while since I wrote about something truly awesome that adds value to my life . I’m reversing the trend today with Expensr, an excellent finance webapp that helps keep track of finance records online.

Now, it may not be mint, the oft-buzzed about web application that took top honors (and a healthy chunk of change) home at this year’s TechCrunch 40. Mint, in my opinion, is for those who are totally fearless about merging automatic screen-scraping and finance: a lack of online banking APIs (for obviously good reasons) makes you wonder about mint’s long term prospects.

While Expensr doesn’t have the automatic transaction downloading bells and whistles (…yet), it’s still a very snappy location-independent way of keeping track of how much I have in my accounts and how much I’ve spent this month. There’s plenty of other features that a good web2.0 app should have: community-centric, a blog, and founders who get back to me on bugs and feedback within the day, but it’s the relative ease-of-use and charting features that keep me coming back instead of jumping to Excel or Money.

And it’s free to use, of course.

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]]> http://www.philonoist.net/2007/10/08/sweetness-of-the-day-expensrcom/feed/ 3 Tip – Break down your hour into manageable chunks http://www.philonoist.net/2007/07/18/tip-break-down-your-hour-into-manageable-chunks/ http://www.philonoist.net/2007/07/18/tip-break-down-your-hour-into-manageable-chunks/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:16:51 +0000 Adam http://www.philonoist.net/?p=154 If you’re anything like me, you might get a bit distracted during your work day and, say, publish 5 entries to your redesigned blog. If you find yourself wasting the better part of your day, try to rein in your playtime by either using the (10+2)5 method or the 48 Minute method.

I know that when I’m really off track, using a simple timer (anyone have noms for a good Win version?) can help me at least get something done: racing against the clock is a powerful incentive. I was a little dissatisfied with the (10+2)5 method last year at StreamSage: the too-short breaks really messed up the work cycles. I’m going to try the 48 minute method for the next fortnight, and I’ll report on my results here.

Does anyone have any other time hacking tips for getting stuff done?

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