I was checking recent tweets over at Twitter when I came across this post by Trula:

working on blogs: setting topics for rest of nov and will write rest of this week’s tonight

I tweeted back my interest in her method she replied:

@WillBrown: I find writing posts in advance helpful & timesaving. it’s a tip @problogger had on his blog a while back

Small world. I’ve been subscribed to Darren Rowse’s Problogger blog for some time now, but due to the extraordinary amount of feeds I’m subscribed to, I haven’t read it recently. I now follow him on Twitter.

Darren’s, and Trula’s, idea of planning out blog posts weeks in advance has never crossed my mind. I think it is because blogging, to me, has always been so now and immediate. You’re supposed to write about things going on in the here and now. Not something you thought about three weeks prior.

Thinking about it now, it does make sense. Not every topic has to be timely. A good topic can be topical even though you may have thought about it weeks prior.

Thanks, Trula!

Oh…follow me on Twitter.

With so much talk about Getting Things Done and time management, I’ve come to realize that it can all be summed up into one, short phrase:

One thing at a time…

Multitasking is a myth. It is a time-waster in and of itself.

Most people cannot quickly move from one task to another without having to bring some type of closure to the first, some type of ramping down of the “Go! Go!” furor of the current task at hand. Then you have to use mental resources to remind yourself of where you left off, so that you can come back to it later.

Then to start another task, you have to ramp yourself up to a mental rhythm. If this is a continuing project you have to remember where you left off and what can you do in the time you have at hand, while still bearing the weight of the other tasks you are juggling.

Do one task. Do it to completion. Check it off your list.

Move on…

Just found this great meeting scheduling service called “Timebridge“.

…the first Personal Scheduling Manager designed to help busy people find a time to meet— fast.

Though still in beta, it seems to do everything I need and more to assist in scheduling interviews for my podcasts:

• E-mail my available time-slots to interviewee
• Multiple date/time options in one glance
• Professional appearance
• Confirmation e-mails once the interviewee has picked a date
• Integrates nicely with my Google calendar!

Very nice. I’ll use this to schedule the current slate of interviews I’m planning and let you know how it works out. I used it for my upcoming interview/discussion with Thom Ingram for Cloudy Day Art. No issues. So far, so good.