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Getting things done with Flock and Meebo

Brian Dillard, Monday, September 8, 2008 @ 3:01 pm

During a recent GTD weekly review, I suddenly realized how many distractions had worked their way into my daily office routine: personal email, personal instant messaging, entertainment feeds, Facebook. I suspect such time-wasters pose a bigger danger to web developers than to other professionals, if only because the programs they run in are so central to our work. I run Firefox for web development, Adium for instant messaging, and NetNewsWire for industry news all day out of necessity. If I allow my personal distractions to jump out at me from those programs, my productivity plummets.

This weekend, I worked hard to de-tangle my professional and personal lives. My tools? Flock, the Mozilla-based "social browser," and Meebo, the browser-based IM aggregation service. My goal was to separate all personal bookmarks and RSS feeds from NetNewsWire and Firefox into Flock, then move all my personal IM accounts from Adium to Meebo. The end result was a self-imposed firewall between productive time and fun time. (Thanks to many a Lifehacker article for the basic idea, if not the implementation.)

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