What's the next action

How is your comfortzone?

The last couple of weeks have been a rollercoaster ride. Again. It just doesn’t seem to stop and yeah, the first I seem to do is fall back in old habits. I forget I have a Next action list. I haven’t looked in it for a couple of weeks but I just look at the work at hand when I arrive at work and start right away. Weekly review? Nah, forget it. Didn’t do that one in a month of two I think. Is that bad? I don’t know. I still get some projects done and I do feel I have enough balls up in the air to keep some projects going. Okay, i need to look at my mails a few times more than usual (now, where was that answer from Jeff I need for this task…) but since I know I can only have it in a couple of places, it doesn’t take me long to find it.
One other thing is my comfortzone and my changing internal standards. I feel it dropping for the stuff around me and how I feel I need to do something to change. Let me explain this in the way The Dave does this in his GTD Fast series (Disc 5 track 4). This CD serie is not for sale any longer.

30 04 06 - 21:51 - Permanent link - two comments

New GTD log started

I would like to welcome the people of Blackbeltproductivity.net in the GTD-blogspace! Started yesterday and I look forward in what they have to offer on insights, new tips and tricks on implementing GTD.

19 04 06 - 12:08 - Permanent link - two comments

Onfolio aqcuired by Microsoft

This is quite a surprise to me. During my day off because of Easter, I cleaned my offline magazine-stack by basically throwing them all away. I was planning on doing the same with my collection of PDF’s on my laptop. But I thought “Well…There are some interesting ones but I need a system to find them on the right moment.” I immediately thought of OnFolio. I used this program for a while, I even wrote some articles about it, for instance the showdown with Evernote (part 1 and part 2)
What I need is some sort of system where I can tag documents with proper keywords and find them again when needed. Or be reminded that I have some sort of document on a topic when I am working on a project. That last one is the hardest, but that’s another topic.
When I visited the site for a new download (I don’t keep earlier downloaded exe’s) I found they have been aqcuired by Microsoft. Kudo’s for them, but bummer for moi. Because OnFolio as I used to know, does not exist anymore. It is integrated in the Windows Live Beta Toolbar. Whatever that is, since I only use Firefox. But nowhere a sign of an earlier version of OnFolio? The forum already talks about abandoned Firefox-users and people are looking for alternatives. Any other thoughts here are welcome!

Update: While browsing through the forum I found a link to the releasehistory. Old versions of OnFolio are still available over there.

16 04 06 - 19:33 - Permanent link - one comment

Chatting about GTD

I got a comment from John Ratcliffe-Lee on my article on GTD and Backpack. He wrote an excellent follow-up where he describes how he uses the new 37Signal product Campfire to complement his GTD-ness in Backpack/Basecamp. I don’t quite understand yet what the advantage is, but perhaps that will come in the following days.
What I have done is using Campfire to set up some chatrooms for you all to use. You can chat about GTD or well, whatever you like. Just keep it nice and clean!
I have made two chatrooms called Basic Talk and GTD Tips. Feel free to try out Campfire with these chatrooms and let me know what you think. Maybe I will be around every now and again but I can’t promise it…
Since I am on the free version of Campfire, only 4 simultaneous chatters are allowed. Which pretty much sucks ‘cause that is not enough for some real conversation. So if any of the 37Signals peeps are reading along with us, hook me up with a better plan so I can promote it better ;-)

16 04 06 - 00:56 - Permanent link - one comment

The 5 reasons why The Weekly Review is difficult

As David Allen always says: The one thing that makes or breaks your implementation of GTD is the Weekly Review. Be sure to check out my article "What IS Getting Things Done" to get an overview of the WR in the whole system. Nothing is more difficult to start or maintain than that Weekly Review. I find it very hard to do and keep my WR. Earlier this week I was driving on the highway, pondering about some upcoming projects and what had to be done to get them going. One thing led to another and I came up with these reasons why the WR is so hard. I think anyone has their own reasons, but they will all end up in one of these five I think. Here we go

The 5 reasons why The Weekly Review is difficult

10 04 06 - 08:20 - Permanent link - six comments

New features in Backpack coming up

When opening up Backpack this morning I found a pleasant surprise. Click on the image

Yeey! I wonder what timeframe they mean by "soon" but it's worth waiting I guess...Want to try out Backpack in the meantime? Please use this link. When you sign up for a paid plan, some referralcash is flowing my way so I can pay for the GTD Roadmap when it hits Europe (Someday...Maybe...)

08 04 06 - 09:03 - Permanent link - No comments yet

The GTD prayer

This is just brilliant. I am not christian or religious of any kind, but this is great...

Our lifehacks, which art in contexts,
Inbox zero be thy aim.
Thy Kinkless done.
Thy Mind Sweep fun, in @work as it is in @honeydo.
Give us this day our next action.
And forgive us our open loops, as we forgive those who delete our email.
And lead us not into web surfing.
Deliver us from IM.
For thine is the Moleskine, the Project and the Due Date
For someday/maybe,
Allen.

Update: As mentioned in the comments, I should credit the author. Absolutely right. I was a bit too fast this morning to post this. All credits for the above go to Giles Turnbull over at Gilest.org

06 04 06 - 08:55 - Permanent link - three comments