November 20th, 2007
Omni are the developers of the renowned OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, and the less well known but equally superb OmniPlan (and there are other strings to their illustrious bow). Their latest foray is into the trendy world of Getting Things Done (GTD), but having spent a little time with it, it seems they may have failed to [...]
May 11th, 2007
I have a new productivity tool, it’s called the Mail.app Quit button.
Not only is email the most intrusive distractor of focused task completion, but it’s a grand excuse to choose not to focus. Control over tasks is about just that: control. A permanently open email client is anything but control. Emails pop in at any [...]
March 10th, 2007
One of the big problems in working an effective GTD system is making everything play nice together - connecting all those micro systems which form part of the ideal GTD solution.
As well as recording what I need to do, I have lately taken to recording what I’ve done. I keep a basic journal (in a [...]
January 28th, 2007
The key to making GTD (Get Things Done) work is to keep it simple. The biggest downfall, particularly for anyone with ADD, is gettin more wrapped up in the process of GTD, than actually using to solve the day-to-day balancing of work, personal, and other miscellaneous tasks.
For a few months now I have solved my [...]