LifeHacker has a great productivity tip from Jerry Seinfeld.

Here's how it works, let's say you want to learn about all the new features in ColdFusion 8. Now grab a wall calendar, and a red marker. Every day that you learn about a new feature mark a red X on that day.

If you've been trying to figure out a way to get your hands on a 30" Apple Cinema Display, show your boss these reports on the productivity gains associated with using larger, or multiple monitors.

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Here's a little productivity tip for those of you using a bookmarking system that supports tags (such as del.icio.us).

I like to call it Action Tagging, here's how it works.

Here's a handy tip that I got from a co-worker, who found it in the book Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step. It creates a shortcut in the right click context menu of Windows Explorer to open a command prompt in the current directory.

Developers and system administrators often need to open files of types that aren't mapped to a particular program. This ofcourse requires that slow "Open With" window to pop up. A trick I recently found is to add a shortcut to the right click menu, to open files with notepad.