I wouldn’t consider myself to be one of those people who just has to have the most recent device, but I do enjoy getting a new phone. I was a huge Blackberry defender for many years, and given that I only really used my phone for work, it was easy to be one. Until a…
I’ve been managing my work life, and to a large extent my home life as well, using a GTD system since reading David Allen‘s Book Getting Things Done in 2006. Frankly, it’s the only way I can stay sane — trying to juggle all the things in my head that go on with work, school,…
Admittedly, I’ve never paid much attention to Jimmy Fallon (except for the occasional skit with Timberlake) and I couldn’t have told you who Questlove was a month ago. My wife is currently reading Questlove’s memoirs and I actually find myself now waiting for her to finish so that I can read it as well. All of…
When I went to school in Pennsylvania, I had to get all kinds of things to store in my car that I didn’t need at home in Florida, such as an ice scraper, a first aid kit (much of the area was very rural) or a thick blanket. Having been in law enforcement, I was…
We typically vacation in Savannah each year for our anniversary, having honeymooned there and really enjoyed it enough to go back each year. Jen’s best friend and her husband typically vacation in Myrtle Beach each summer and we decided to meet up for a weekend in Savannah since they had never been there. We usually…
Overview Along with Doit.im, Nirvana is one of the best implementations of a GTD system I’ve seen. These two applications have the same major shortcoming: there is no single Next Action in a project; all new tasks are created as “Next”. I don’t really understand how two companies that build such apt tools for use…
Overview I’ve actually been using Doit.im (Snoworange Inc.) for about six months since I started my comparison of GTD systems. I needed a solution for managing my work projects while I reviewed additional systems, and so I narrowed my list of potential solutions to four or five and this was one of them. Due to…
Overview TodoMatrix is the task management application that I used previously. With this in mind, I’m documenting it as a baseline rather than as a product to consider. My primary reason for leaving it for another application is that it does not offer the span of device/platform compatibility that I need. Some folks who rely…
In April, our Boston Terrier, Clancy, passed away. I’d had him for about 10 years and the loss was a very trying time for us. Much of his odd behaviors and weird personality was the center of our lives. We decided recently to foster Boston Terriers who were up for adoption by the Boston Terrier…
This is the first in a series of articles reviewing the best GTD applications and summarizing their features, then selecting a winner to replace my current GTD application. Years ago, a friend told me about the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. I had expressed frustration with trying to juggle everything going on in my life…