Several weeks ago NPR’s All Things Considered offered a segment on the world of GTD (Getting Things Done), the newest wrinkle in the cult of effective personal organization. As I’ve always been a sucker for this sort of thing–hell, I would rather have a gift certificate for Staples than Victoria’s Secret–I headed to google to find out about the methodology and to find supporting software. I settled on My Life Organized a simple–and a little overpriced at around $60–tool for capturing and ordering to-do’s. Yes, lists on the backs of napkins would probably work as well, but you’d soon enough lose those napkins. After a month of use I’ve yet to miss a day that I did not use the program and make updates. Perhaps after further use I may develop a list of features/needs that I’d want in a next generation product, but for the moment I find this a satisfying, fairly intuititive tool.
March 13th, 2008
Several weeks ago NPR’s All Things Considered offered a segment on the world of GTD (Getting Things Done), the newest wrinkle in the cult of effective personal organization. As I’ve always been a sucker for this sort of thing–hell, I would rather have a gift certificate for Staples than Victoria’s Secret–I headed to google to find out about the methodology and to find supporting software. I settled on My Life Organized a simple–and a little overpriced at around $60–tool for capturing and ordering to-do’s. Yes, lists on the backs of napkins would probably work as well, but you’d soon enough lose those napkins. After a month of use I’ve yet to miss a day that I did not use the program and make updates. Perhaps after further use I may develop a list of features/needs that I’d want in a next generation product, but for the moment I find this a satisfying, fairly intuititive tool.