workflow

Getting in The Zone

Sometimes you have to stress a little to get the best results. I find that to a certain extent, the more I work, the better I get. Not just because I learn new stuff, but because I get in The Zone....

Walk Away From Your Work

Writers need a break between finishing the first draft of a new novel, and editing their work. To get a little bit of distance, means a clearer mind when it’s time to put on the...

Work: How to Estimate Your Costs for a Task

When negotiating your fee for a job with a potential business client, it can be tricky to come up with a reasonable estimate. Web Worker Daily suggests that you estimate your numbers from small to...

Google Reader: Perfect Your Workflow

If you've already tweaked Google Reader, but you're still on the hunt for even more GTD hacks, then John of Library Clips has just made your day with an exquisitely detailed article on how he has set...

Office Culture: Can You Make Work Fun?

Having fun in the workplace seems like a oxymoron. However, engineer Dave Cheong postulates that having fun at your place of work is not only good for team building, but it makes for more...

The Importance of a Central Project List

I can’t escape the fact that having a real centralized project list for the things I’m doing is helping. I want to believe that I have tons of excess capacity in my brain. I want to think...

Colleen Wainwright on email as PSD

Treat your email more like Photoshop My pal, Colleen, has written up a short, designer’s take on handling email. She suggests you treat messages the way you’d handle Photoshop PSDs;...

Keep Work Flow By Stopping Mid-Task

When you are timeboxing tasks you are taking specific blocks of time and spending them doing one task at a time. This works really well for writing and staying focused. You allot, for instance, an...

Details & video on the P2 based HPX3000 - 10 bit 1920x1080!

Studio Daily| The P2 Matrix - Navigating File-Based Workflow: The presentation at the Lounge was short on details, but here's a cribsheet on what to expect from the HPX3000.-2 million pixel...

Studio Daily| A Monster Digital Dailies Solution

Studio Daily| A Monster Digital Dailies SolutionThis guy got VERY serious about capturing all possible metadata on set. This is a very Mike Curtis kind of a solution, but I don't know about the...