Taming To–Dos

Newsweek, January, 2007 by Daniel Mcginn

It's true-confession time: how many messages are in your in box? How often do you check your e-mail? And just how many items did you check off your to-do list today? For many of us, the answers are "too many," "too often" and "not enough." There has to be a better way--and productivity blogger Gina Trapani is here to help. For the past two years Trapani has edited Lifehacker.com, a Web site owned by Gawker Media that offers advice designed to help people work smarter. This month she joined the blogger-turned-author brigade by publishing "Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tips to Turbocharge Your Day" ( Wiley, $24.99 ). The book includes tricks to automatically back up hard drives, optimize to-do lists, construct and remember passwords, filter e-mail and make better use of search engines--just a...