An Invitation

[da]

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.

Comments

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Disclaimer: I have never made a powerpoint thingy.

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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Thanks.

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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Man, TiddlyWiki is scary to use. The way the rectangles zoom out and such you know if you stored too much in it that it would eat all of your CPU/RAM. Cool, but.. eh.

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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Yep, that zooming seemed excessive to me as well. Down with overly graphical text wikis! :)

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Image! I mean.. word!

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o_O

yeah.