Linkblog 1-18-08

Today’s web roundup…

Over the last ten years, motivated largely by the ability to stay awake for insane hours and operate on hyper-speed, caffeine and sugar-packed energy drinks have become the go-to fix for gamers and students. But, what about non-gamer grown-ups?

From Top 5 Ways to Double your Energy (Without Caffeine!) | Lifehack.org

 

Free copying utility Text Mining Tool grabs just the text out of Word documents, PDFs, HTML pages, and other documents without the hassle of opening, selecting everything and hoping embedded images don’t leave strange markers in the text. Once your text is copied, you can either re-save it as a text file or copy it to the clipboard. Its function might not sound all that helpful—until you’ve tried to select multiple pages’ worth of text from a scanned PDF…

From Grab Just the Text from Documents with Text Mining Tool | Lifehacker

 

This pro-randomness philosophy runs counter to the cult of systematization that pervades much of the productivity blogosphere — which is why it intrigues me. So I asked Ben to walk us through the concept…

From Disruptive Thinkers: Ben Casnocha Wants You To Stop Making So Many Damn Plans | StudyHack

 

 

When you see someone behaving in a manner that is unbecoming, or even juvenile, do you think to yourself, “He needs to show some maturity and stop acting like that”? But what do we mean when we say someone needs to show maturity – and even more so, are we mature in our own lives?

From Do You Recognize the 7 Ingredients of Maturity? | Dumb Little Man

 

The manual aims to equip you with the skills that you need to be a competent student. These skills are very general and can be applied in other social science subjects that you might be taking. As well as formal instructions, such as how to construct an essay, or how to avoid plagiarism, this manual includes some practical exercises.

From The University of Bristol School for Policy Studies - Study Skills Manual

(The note taking section of this is particularly brilliant)

 

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