September 2008
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Mint.com FTW! Simple Money Management.
I’ve been on the lookout for the simplest, best money management web app I could find. I have tried them all, I promise you, and Mint takes the cake. I actually tried Mint for a bit after TC50 last year, and while I admired the beautiful design and simplicity, it still had a little work to go. Like most people and our to-do lists, we need to find something that works for us, makes it...
Books Be Gone. Shed the Dust Collectors.
While based on a set of loose rules, I may have [around] 29 things, but in reality it is much more due to the fact that I consider my rather huge collection of books 1 thing. If I have ever had an interest in a particular subject, I have book or 10 of which I used to educate myself with. I love learn, and have probably bought well over 1000 [non-fiction] books in my short 27 years. I have...
“One shall make his decisions within the space of 7 breaths, It is a matter of...”
– The Hagakuri [code of the samurai]
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Gadgets: Fitbit Debuted at TC50.
This has to be one of the coolest devices I’ve ever seen and judging by the talk from TC50, I’m not the only on who sees the value in it. Fitbit is a small wearable device that tracks your fitness and sleep habits. Using an acceloremeter similar to the one in the Nintendo Wii, it can accurately give you data on steps, miles walked, calories burned, the intensity of your exercise, how...
“The mantra of your domestic landscape should be: Peace, Tranquility, Fluidity,...”
– Karim Rashid [world famous designer]
Simple Finance Management for Kids: Shryk.com
I’m a huge fan of simple finance management web apps like Mint and Wesabe, but being a huge supporter of teaching children and teens about finance, those apps are totally geared to adults. Yesterday, Shryk.com debuted at TC50 as a platform focused on the age 5-24 crowd. Shryk describes itself as being focused on building financial literacy for the younger demographic to inspire a...
Really 'Get Stuff Done'.
No matter how much we all want to love it, I’m sure most of us know how flawed ‘GTD’ is. It’s essentially busy work to keep us from doing busy work, and all it has ever done for me is make my life harder and more complicated. That is not to say many of the concepts in the system are great, cause they are and if you’ve been following the productivity blog circuit for a...
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3 Quick Questions: AJ Vaynerchuk
3 Quick Questions is a new interview section we’re starting here at 29things.com. Our first interview is with AJ Vaynerchuk, co-founder of PleaseDressMe.
1. From what I gather, your the idea man behind pleasedressme, could you fill us in on how the idea came about and what got the ball rolling?
The idea really came out of nowhere. Joe (another co-founder along with me and Gary) and I...
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PleaseDressMe.com
Cool and creative t-shirts are one of the hottest trends on the web these days. I personally spend countless hours jumping between Threadless, Busted Tees, and about a half dozon other sites looking for awesome shirts. Internet business superstar & WineLibary TV host Gary Vaynerchuk, his little brother AJ, and Digg.com’s Joe Stump launched a great new site this week called...
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus, jazz musician
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29things: Why Tumblr?
Simplicity. Design. Productivity. Tumblr is the 29things tagline in a blog platform. It fits my personality perfectly. It comes with minimal features, but is highly customizable. Sure, there are no ‘categories’ but I can easily tag posts and create a space in the sidebar and link the tags, and poof! Instant categories. I don’t feel obligated to create long-winded articles,...
NowDoThis.com: A Minimalists To-Do List
I’m a huge fan of GTD, but usually find that most of the web apps, and software available just makes life more complicated. NowDoThis.com takes the complication out - and is by far the most simple, yet most useful to-do app I have found. Started by William Cotton and Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick, NowDoThis makes to-do easier by displaying a single task at a time and you cannot move to the...