What's the next action

Adobe/Macromedia entering the GTD-space?

This afternoon I noticed a very interesting post on one of the developers blog from Adobe. They made a webbased tool called NoteTag, which gives you a flash-based environment to take notes. But that’s not all. The notes are not stored in some proprietary format like EverNote, but you can publish them directly to Blogger or del.icio.us for that matter. Any Atom supported service can work as a backend. Very very interesting! Check out the screencast for a cool demo! And the blog that goes with it :-)

The big downtake is you will need a Flex server to run it, but as a proof-of-concept I can imagine this further developed by a third party and put to use as an ASP model like Backpack or RememberTheMilk. Since we have certified Flex-developers in our company, I will surely check out if I can take some R&D time to discuss this concept a but further. It might be very interesting for projectgroups. But I can also see the GTD-link with this kind of applications.

26 05 06 - 18:38 - Permanent link - one comment

Lil' easteregg in Google Notebook

I found a nice little easteregg which makes using Google Notebook even easier. Well…I found an article describing the easteregg. After enabling it you will see a little “note this +” sign next to your selected text. This makes it really easy to notate nice quotes, pieces of articles and other online stuff. Check it out for yourself.

22 05 06 - 09:31 - Permanent link - No comments yet

Let's get David Allen to the Netherlands!

On his Roadmap tour, David talks about implementing GTD in your professional and personal life. As he says himself on this little interview : “More focus on the process of deciding where you are and what part of the models you should do what about, now… e.g. should you do 40k thinking with you spouse right now, or clean your garage —- get a planner or throw it away?”
Make sure you check out the contents of the seminar for a more indepth overview
If you are serious about getting your projects and your work straight through GTD, this might be The One seminar to attend.

So I got in touch with Rachelle from the David Allen Company and she is more than happy to help me get him to come over. But we need to get a room full of people for him to talk to. Otherwise it would be just a waste of time, right?
So here is the question, especially for those in the Netherlands, are you interested in attending a GTD seminar by David Allen? I t will not be a free seminar, costs are about 600 dollar per person. Please consider this when replying. I would love to get him to speak in The Netherlands, but I need about 150 people to show up!
So let me know in the comments how you feel about this and I will see what I can do!

17 05 06 - 00:20 - Permanent link - four comments

I heart Weekly Review!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It is sunday afternoon right now. And I feel more relaxed than any other sunday afternoon for the past couple of months. Why is that? Because I had not only one, but two Weekly Reviews in a row! And it felt great doing them! Let me explain in this post what I did and how it affected me in my work over just this short period…Perhaps you will get some tips and inspiration from it

15 05 06 - 00:08 - Permanent link - four comments

The myth of keeping up with your reading

The blog “Creating Passionate Users” has an excellent write-up on why you will never keep up with all your reading and how you can help yourself reducing the amount of information you want or need to absorb. One of the best

Don’t file it. Don’t store it. What you don’t have piling up you can’t feel guilty about. Some people put little height limits on their “to read” stack. (OK, when it gets as high as that drawer, I must throw out the oldest 50%...)

07 05 06 - 00:01 - Permanent link - two comments

OpenSubject a lifesaver for your email?

OpenSubject is an public project to make email correspondence more efficient through the use of simple 3 letter codes. Instead of using your project name as a subject for every message you sent you enter a code which says something about the contents or tha message and the desired action to be taken by the receiver.
Example Subject: NRN: Project X Information
Means: NO Reply Needed: this message contains information about Project X

With their own list of three letter codes they give some good hints to start with this. Big issue: How to remember the codes?

06 05 06 - 23:42 - Permanent link - No comments yet

I'm Black Belt! Well...sort of...

Previously I mentioned a new GTD-related blog called Blackbeltproductivity.net. This didn’t stay unnoticed and the guys from the blog, Jason Echols and Michael Ramm, decided to invite me for an upcoming series on their blog called “The Black Belt Series”. I am going to write for them throughout the year about GTD and how it has affected me. Well, what an honour for a dutch cheesehead as myself! I must say, I am in very good company! Check out the other authors: 1. Emory Lundberg (http://kvet.ch) 2. Matt Cornell, of Matt’s Idea Blog 3. bsag, developer of Tracks, a a web-based application to help you implement GTD® methodology 4. Jason Womack, David Allen Co. Employee & Evangelist 5. Punkey, of What’s the next action (hey that’s me!) 6. GTD Wannabe, of GTD Wannabe 7. pooks, author and blogger at planet pooks 8. Allen Hall, of searching4arcadia 9. John Winstanley, of MyPalmLife

Not too bad ‘ey? I look forward to this weekend. I have planned some thinking about the given topics and some rough outlines of what I am going to write. Now if only the sun can stay away for a couple of hours so I am not tempted to go outside and catch some first rays of sun this year…
And one other thing…I am starting fresh tomorrow with a planned Weekly Review…woohoo….I scheduled 4 hours in the morning for myself to really do some reviewing. I hope it’s gonna work. One thing I will be focussing on is when I get distracted, I will try to find out what’s distracting me and why. With that information, I can perhaps help myself better focussing on the Weekly Review in the time to come.

(Photo courtesy of Jackol)

03 05 06 - 20:54 - Permanent link - No comments yet