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GTD in the IT Profession
michaelramm | Apr 13 2006
I was wanting to see what other IT professionals are using for their system. What kinda blends of HiFi/LoFi do you employ? What contexts do you use? What contexts do you have but don't use very well? Are you blending personal with job? I sometimes struggle with my system because of the REACTIVE nature of my job. I am a 1-man IT Dept. and while I do have projects that fit really well into my system, there are the unpredictables that make me stress out...email is down, cannot print to XXX, and the always important, My system is SOOOO slow today. My contexts are: * @Work [general context, may leave system] * @Website [both job website and personal website stuff] * @Home [general context] * BrainDump [where I just dump NAs to be processed later] Right now I am still using the Tracks, for to-dos and projects, with a Moleskine, for a hard landscape. But the hPDA seems soo cool...ARGHHH! I hear a lot about Google (which went live today)...should I replace my Moleskines?!? I guess I need to stop tweaking and just use it and shut up. Anyway, I just like to see how others implement GTD in their lives, esp. those with similar interest (or jobs) to me. Michael 4 Comments
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 *...Submitted by mcnicks on April 14, 2006 - 3:45am.
michaelramm wrote:
I have to handle a whole range of IT-related tasks as well, but I have tried to resist dividing up my context by activity because it leads to my old 'todo list for everything' approach. By keeping my contexts related to location, I can avoid worrying about a whole heap of things that are physically impossible for me to do (eg. because I need to be in a different building to do them). I find that, if I divide tasks up by activity, I tend to worry or feel guilty because in my head I keep saying, 'I could be doing X just now' or 'I should be doing Y just now'. Its early days for me so I have no idea if this approach has any tangible benefits: its just feels a bit more intuitive. » POSTED IN:
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