No perfect to-do, but maybe good-enough will be good enough

I am NOT satisfied with this system, but maybe it will allow me to keep functioning and GTD'ing until WebIS gets their toodledo sync done... (Of course, that still leaves the issue of offline access open)

Anyway, here's my tho'ts:

Keep with RTM. I don't like having a new folder for each project (I wouldn't mind if it could be created on the fly), but if I just do new folders for "major" projects (whatever that means) then that is do-able. What that means is I will have a few projects that have tags on my phone. The rest will look like one-off tasks even though they are part of a project, but I guess I can live with that. Maybe I'll add a "+misc" project name (in addition to their "real" project name) or something so they can be differentiated on my phone.

Then I will have a few smart searches saved for the rest of my tags that I need (na, thisweek, context, etc.). Actually, I will probably use saved searches for the projects as well.

BTW, if you haven't checked out this link on using tags and tag cloud for context/project/everything you really should. Add a couple separator "tags" and all of a sudden you have a great set of links in your cloud -- if it wasn't for the sync problems I would be very happy...

So I'm not satisfied but I'm going to stop looking for a while. (Maybe I can actually get something done rather than researching how to get something done... :-) ) (Oh, wait, has that joke been overdone in GTD posts? Oh, well...)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

GTD revisited again (and again)

Looks like September is my month for working on my system. I've recently upgraded to an Android device (oh, the joy of no longer being tied to Windows Mobile) and am now trying to figure out how to get GTD working on it. As you know if you've read any of my other posts on this topic, I'm a nut for PocketInformant on the WM platform, so it was the first app I purchased on Android. Now these are 2 different platforms and so I expected differences, but I was still a bit surprised by how far apart they were. PI on WM is an amazingly mature app with all kinds of configurability and amazing capability and functionality. PI on Android is ... well, let's say it's still young. Hopefully there will be lots of upgrades coming down the pike. I'm not looking for a replacement, but that's only because I'm already a great fan of WebIS and know that they will really get it right as they move forward. But the great thing about PI on Android is that there is built-i
Read more

My PDA - Handera 330

What, you never heard of a HandEra 330? Well neither have most other people and they are no longer in the PDA business, but they made a really nice PDA when this first came out. It has possibly the first virtual grafitti area, possibly the first expansion slots (that's right - 2 of them, one for SD and one for CompactFlash), etc. Shoot, these guys probably invented the wheel if we really looked into it. Everybody knocked it because it wasn't cute, but man did it have great functionality. Now I'm hankering after a phone like the Treo 650, but that's for sometime in the future.
Read more

Software

My most common pieces of software on my Palm (Oh, I forgot to mention that Handera is built on a Palm basis - older version now but still going strong): Datebook: Pimlico Software DateBk5 Contacts: Chapura KeyContacts (www.chapura.com) ToDo: Code Jedi's Shadow (www.codejedi.com) Memos & Doc reader/writer: Blue Nomad's WordSmith (www.bluenomad.com) Input: MessageEase Launcher: Launcher X Password holder: CryptInfo Bible Reader: OliveTree Spreadsheet: Tiny Sheet Hacks: X-Master Find-hack: FindHack 3.6 I've got a bunch of other stuff (ah, the beauty of Palm OS) but if you have these then you've got the core of what, for me, is a very productive PDA. Enjoy!
Read more