![]() If I should pick 2 and use them for say 2 weeks each, which should I pick? What do you use and are you happy with that tool? ![]() Is there a good reason to pick one over the other? (Different strengths perhaps?) or do you have any other tips regarding which tool to pick? I guess I could just try everyone? But that would take a lot of time, that is why I am hoping that you guys could help me with a shortcut. Since getting active with GTD I've seen tons of tools: There is also the reference materials, which I currently keep in a folder with some subfolders, I guess the tool could maybe help there as well, or that could be another tool in the future (like combining say Asana for "GTD lists" and Evernote for the reference materials) * Connections between tasks and their projects (and maybe projects and areas of focuses? is that nice?) * Setting start dates on tasks (instead of using my calendar as a tickler file) Stuff I feel like I am missing right now are: I am working on a Macbook and an android phone (The tool only needs to work on the Mac/web, I can use the phone just as an inbox) txt files when learning instead of a program) Long live the paper to-do list with dates written in chronological order and little boxes drawn next to each for the satisfying check when you’re finished!Ī version of this first ran on Schechter’s blog.I am working forwards on my journey to implement GTD and I would like to upgrade my system (currently just using. Gini’s suggestion: $14.99 for a pack of 12 in any color you desire. I’m pretty sure he was channeling me when he wrote, “For some, that will be as simple as a sheet of plain paper.” Costs for Each My Suggested Tools: OmniFocus for iOS and OS X, Due App for iOS, Fantastical for OS X, Listary for iOS, and David Seah’s Emergent Task Planner. For some, that will be as simple as a sheet of plain paper for others, robust task management systems like OmniFocus will do the trick. No matter how good you are, it’s improbable that you can keep this all together without a system. Without a way to store the things you need to do, you will find yourself overwhelmed and you will notice things slipping through the cracks. In that he included ways to manage your to-do list. A few weeks ago, he wrote a great blog post about keeping yourself more organized. In fact, it’s an ongoing conversation with the two of us. Michael Schechter and I have this conversation, as well. I don’t know if it’s because I spend most of my nights on planes, without access to the web, or if it’s because, like Allen, I get great satisfaction from physically checking something off my list, but I just can’t give up the paper method. So why can’t I give up my paper task list? Instapaper and a good old fashioned copy of a link into a draft blog post in WordPress work really well for me. I blog (a lot) and I read (a lot) and I use technology to help me do both of those things. There is something visceral about physically crossing off something when you’ve finished it.” The Paper Task List I asked Allen what she uses and she lamented, “I still use my legal pad. ![]() I’m always the first one to jump on a new social network to check it out and determine if there is something there we can pass along to clients to make their lives more efficient.īut I keep going back to the tried and true method of a paper task list. I love Evernote and Instapaper and Dropbox and Google Reader and alerts in my calendar that tell me when it’s time to do something. ![]() Not from the aspect of how busy we are, but in how we track everything so balls don’t get lost. Yesterday afternoon, Allen Mireles and I were talking about our to-do lists.
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