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An Invitation
This Tuesday, I"m giving a talk on Getting Things Done and the GTD software I use. The talk needs a small amount of tweaking, yet.
[And here's the finished version. Thanks for all your help, folks. It was really useful.]
If you're the kind of person who would attend a (free, 45-minute talk) on GTD...
Wanna look at my slides and notes, and make suggestions about what is unclear?
There are speaker's notes; you have to click the little head icon in the lower-right corner.
Unfortunately, it needs a google login. If you don't want to do that, I stashed a powerpoint here. You can put comments on this post.
Comments before Monday noon are appreciated; especially if you find yourself tuning out after the first few slides. That's helpful to know. :)
Thanks.
[And here's the finished version. Thanks for all your help, folks. It was really useful.]
If you're the kind of person who would attend a (free, 45-minute talk) on GTD...
There are speaker's notes; you have to click the little head icon in the lower-right corner.
Comments before Monday noon are appreciated; especially if you find yourself tuning out after the first few slides. That's helpful to know. :)
Thanks.
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Also, didn't mean to make you do *another* round, but there you have it...
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This is far more complex an application of the principals tthan what I use but thanks.
Thanks!
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In looking at your slides, even *contemplating* the thought of having all my stuff collected and organized again makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Hee. :)
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I can see it going in waves, like how my desk clutter waxes and wanes...
Maybe we need a support group.
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Though, tracks.tra.in trades custom hooks (for email and sms) for not having the latest version (search function).
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Slide 4 doesn't feel like a list of parallel items (as the bullets would indicate) so much as a progression of sentence fragments.
Slide 8, the differentiation between the two equally named bolded categories is mysterious.
I am a bit curious how well this would work within a large distributed corporation that relies on email for communication, because once something leaves the email system it is difficult to do a "reply to all" to handle to an issue. It seems to rely on the user to provide the technological bridge between systems. I do not doubt that it can work (and have been using a personal wiki at work for information capturing) but it does require effort and attention.
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Yes, it requires effort. So far, I've gotten a fair bit out of the effort I put in; we'll see how well it sticks. I know about system fatigue, fer sher.
The GTDish answer to corporations is they should have processes that encourage easy GTD-style communications; for example, everyone will understand if someone says "that isn't even actionable, why are we wasting time on it?"
Tool-wise, I know the GTD creator's company uses a clever Lotus Notes system to keep everything emailish-yet-GTD-ized; there's a Microsquish Outlook Plugin for GTD they recommend.
Tracks is (at this very moment) working on an email-> tracks plugin so you can forward your actionable email to your personal Tracks (with the email as an editable attached note)
Bringing things full-circle, I was experimenting with a GTD TiddlyWiki just before I found Tracks. It was clever, but a mite too clever for its own good.
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I'll stick to my DocuWiki for work. It's working out slightly better than my pad of paper, the formatting commands are simpler than MediaWiki, and the content is stored in plaintext.
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yeah.
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Thanks for sharing this - very interesting! I can't quite work out what the difference between GTD is and what I use - a "to do" list divided into projects/contexts - so I think I might be missing something (which I mention here so you can tighten up your presentation!).
And thanks for the links - useful. I have been using Remember the Milk - similar(ish) to Tracks, I think.
And you might be interested in this post here - a discussion on to do lists etc.
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If you're curious, my finished slides are here: http://coder.com/daniel/watitis2008.ppt
One of the bonus slides is on other web-based GTD apps, which includes Remember the Milk- I think if I were looking again, today, I might end up with RtM; when I looked two years ago, its gmail tools bogged down my computer something awful. :)
Yes, as per the article, I've gotten a lot of milage out of scraps of paper. However, I don't trust them as much as I trust Tracks. I've laundered my lists more times than I care to think about...
Thanks again.
GTD