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Loving: Evernote – Fight overloaded brain by (actually) remembering things

8 March 2010

Welcome back to Self Employed Mum. Thanks for visiting!

I have so many things to think about, I’m driving myself batty trying to remember what I saw when, and why I want to remember them. Writing blogs on a variety of subjects, coolhunting, noting ideas for stuff to get for the house (we’re about [...]

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Cool Tool: Colorzilla

1 March 2010

Are you one of those peeps who spend a lot of time looking for colors to use online?
Do you ever look at a site and think – “ooh! that looks lovely? I wonder what those colors are?”
Then let me introduce to one of my favorite online tools, Colorzilla.
ColorZilla is a plug-in extension for Mozilla Firefox [...]

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Trying Out: Rescuetime

20 February 2010

I, like a lot of self employed mums am obsessed with snatching back time, harnessing, and managing it, so when Tabitha from Mimimyne tweeted me about web based time management, productivity, and project management software, RescueTime, I was immediately curious. In a nutshell, it tracks websites and applications that you’re actively using and shows you [...]

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Getting Medieval On…Getting Work Done With the Kids at Home: Quick Tips for Survival

16 February 2010

Put Away Your Phone. Really. You & It Won’t Die.
Tempting as it is to check your Blackberry or iPhone (or whatever phone you have) all the time, you’ll just wreck your own head and be distracted. It’s better to be focused. Give full attention when you’re doing activities and it’s a lot easier to do [...]

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Getting Medieval On…Getting Work Done With the Kids at Home: Offload & Outsource

3 February 2010

Last week I wrote about how my childminder being on leave due to a recent op has really screwed up my month forced me to reassess my priorities and how I am working, because it’s clear that I’m not going to achieve as much out of my day as I normally do. After time management [...]

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