Every Morning

Everyday I use the PermaTab extension for Firefox to open my morning desktop: Backpack, Bloglines, 30 Boxes, Harvest, and sometimes PopURLs. I figured others might benefit from a similar setup... Gotta have Firefox first!

Then you'll need this extension.

This isn't MY starting page at Backpack, sorry. Here you can sign up for a new free account and get to do checklists, notes, calendar, Writeboards, and reminders. I prefer 30 Boxes for my calendar, but I use everything else in Backpack ritually--it's great for you GTDrs. I have the first paid level I like it so much.

Where would I be without a little morning reading all day long? I don't have the slightest idea why anyone would want to pay for one of those installable ones. I think it's great that I can log in from my buddies house if I feel the urge.

No matter how hard I try to use a calendar I just am not very good at it. I don't really hae that much stuff to schedule, but I do NEED a calendar. 30 Boxes gives me a great big calendar; easy to read, easy to navigate, intuitive to populate. I can even subscribe to my reminders from Backpack using the iCal feature.

Last on the PermaTab list but the most important of all my marks! If you bill you time because you are a contractor or because your company has lots of internal clients you should stop reading now and sign up. Seriously. I can't imagine a better interface for my time tracking needs. At one point, I had a dream of creating a personal app for doing such things. I no longer have that dream because of this web app. Why are you still reading this? It's free and it rocks.

"And sometimes Y" I don't have the time to find the good stuff on my own, so I let the rest of you do it for me and then I let PopURLs aggregate it. Truthfully, I find myself on the del.icio.us and flickr links the most, but even that's an efficiency payoff for me. When I make it to the bottom of the page I am nearly always amussed by the cartoons. Thanks Thomas!