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Managing GTD With Lotus Notes

If you can’t buy and install a plug in for lotus notes designed for tasks management,like one of the GTD plugins available, I think a lotus based GTD system is doomed for failure, even if you buy the guide to using notes for GTD. 
My stress level has decreased now that I use notes for as little as [...]

Lotus Notes Document Database Useful

I was very surprised to find the Document Database built into Lotus Notes given my overall experience with the product.
Creating a Document Database gives you an easy way to organize your files and intermingle files with text notes (i.e. by dropping them into a note in the database), and you can categorize them, and [...]

GTD On Lotus Notes

A while back I switched from Lotus Notes to Index Cards out of frustration. I am finding that a little problematic, because I end up with a big stack of index cards in a box that is out of site most of the time and I am shuffling too much paper around a [...]

Great Interviews With David Allen and Merlin Mann at 43 Folders

The Productive Talk series on 43 folders are great. They provide a lot of clarity into implementing GTD. Subscribe to the podcast. Great Stuff.
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6 Months Without Windows Mobile

It is about six months since I gave up trying to make my Dell Axim X50 work. Looking back, I just can’t believe how much time I wasted on the thing, trying to get it to sync a few tasks or address book entries. I don’t miss my Axim, ActiveSync, or [...]

Blackberry Desktop Breaks

I installed the Blackberry Desktop, then tried three times to install the service pack. Three times I had to hard-reset my PC, so I have given up on the service pack.
Synchronized the address book and tasks, deleted 200 tasks from outlook no longer relevant and resynced. It seemed to work. That is [...]

Images of the Globe-Weis Tickler Folder

The images on the web of the Globe-Weis everydayfile & fast sorter (an fairly boring peice of technology) did not give me a great idea of how this thing was constructed. It looked like a bound book in the online photos I was able to find. Here are a few photos so you can [...]

GTD Supplies Remarkably Hard to Find

One of the key tools to keep organized with GTD
is a Tickler File. Given the huge success of popularity of David Allen’s Getting Things Done paperback you would think stationary supply stores like Staples, Office Depot, Grand and Toy, etc. would have GTD supplies on on display or at least in stock [...]

Temporal Filing

I just saw an article on the Noguchi Filing System . I am trying something similar for receipts and warranties - I am planning one file per year.
I took an Economics course around 1986 from Andrew Booth (inventor of the Booth Algorithm). Dr. Booth lectured on a lot of things [...]

ActiveSync class action

The web is full of testimonials about ActiveSync like:
If I sound bitter, then its because I feel that I have a right to feel this way. I effectively wasted $700 on a WM5 PDA that has caused me to waste DAYS of time and constantly lose data.

from rants and
Palm Treo owners are a loyal [...]