Presentation design needs time. Squeezing out the last slides the night before the deadline will make your presentation look like, well, a document that was squeezed out the night before the deadline (most management consulting presentations). Give yourself lapse time to complete your presentation. A day of work spread out over a week gives much better results than sprinting from 18:00 to 02:00.
Most ideas come at times and places when you least expect it, and when you don’t always have a note book around. Evernote seems like a useful tool. Capture things on whatever device is convenient, but most importantly, archive it and make it searchable. This archiving is the most important feature I think. Finding notes, mobile phone images, yellow stickies, I lose most of them.
Maybe a special case of Fred Wilson’s “watch later” concept: stumbling on things when you do not have time to deal with it, putting it away somewhere for later access.
Via Lifehacker