In a previous post I wrote about a blog post claiming to find the ultimate solution to syncing your personal data. Now I want to follow up on it, because their solution only addressed a small amount of what can be considered type of personal data. The system only touched on e-mail, contacts, [...]
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Published October 8th, 2006 in GTD, Software, notes and personal productivity.Part 1 here
2) Having a minimal impact on your workflow
Not only do these CRM systems not have a minimal impact on your workflow, they totally and utterly recreate it and force you to completely change your workflow. Before ever using a CRM system I was creatively using an excel spreadsheet that I [...]
1) Always fully trusting your system
First, it’s an issue of trust. A good GTD system is one that you always know where a piece of data should go. That’s why tagging has been such a big hit for me, if I don’t already have a specific category, I can just add one (though [...]
After getting just a taste of what GTD could do and realizing that my trusty little Nokia 3100 had seen better days, I decided to take the next step. The biggest lesson I had learned from my first attempt was that I needed a system that could be carried with me at all times.
At [...]
My first GTD setup was fairly barebones, and I didn’t need to push things much more because I wasn’t applying the system to anywhere near its fullest extent. I learned a valuable lesson in that YOUR GTD SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE WITH YOU OR EASILY ACCESIBLE AT ALL TIMES. Carrying a handheld on top of [...]
In the spirit of getting things done, and getting something out there on the new blog, I figured I’d start with describing my very first GTD setup.
It consisted of:
- Dell D610 laptop running Windows XP
- Dell Axim x3i handheld
- Nokia 3100 cell phone
- MS Outlook
- WebIS Pocket Informant
- Ilium Listpro
MS Outlook:
My day-job required that I [...]
