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How are you Mac folks doing reminders and structuring to-dos?
Scott | Nov 29 2007
As of Leopard, I'm a transplant from Entourage to the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo. Over in Entourage for the past 7 years, I created a slick Zero Inbox system by using delayed reminders, using a cool combo of Applescripts that removed emails out of the Inbox until a time when I needed to deal with them. I haven't figured out a system yet in the Mail world. I'd love to hear how you Mac GTD'ers are using timers/reminders to postpone to-dos until the time you need to deal with them. I'm intrigued by OmniFocus, but it doesn't seem to be set up to do timers; more, it looks like a way to order ones to-dos in the sequence they need to be done. It might work, to switch from a popup timer world, to just remembering to look at a list. But before I dive in to OmniFocus, I'd love to hear how others are dealing with their to-dos using the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo. Thanks for any ideas. 38 Comments
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 Moving in this directionSubmitted by epskionline on November 29, 2007 - 12:51pm.
Now that I have an iPhone, and Entourage Sync Services crashes whenever I enable iCal and Address Book synching, I have been stuck in this nether world of keeping iCal and Address Book manually up-to-date, just so my iPhone and Entourage basically match. I hate iCal and Address Book, but I have heard they are better in Leopard and expect to move to that OS in a couple of months. I'm still not sure it's a winner. Task management is so much better in Entourage than in the Tiger version of iCal. It's not like Tasks sync to iPhone anyway (WTF?). And, no, I don't want to pay Remember the Milk; I'd rather put my three most important tasks in a note on the iPhone and do it ZTD style. So, what I'm saying here is that I can't imagine living outside Entourage now that I've got it working so reliably as a GTD-oriented system, but I don't want to keep duplicating work in iCal and Address Book. Maybe a clean system with Leopard and Entourage 2008 will resolve this Sync Services problem and I should just suffer until its release, but I don't know. Looking forward to seeing what people actually do with Apple's toolset instead of 3rd party apps. I'm tired of downloading and trying new tools... and paying extra for them. Plus, I like how iCal and Address Book sync flawlessly with my iPhone. (Now, if only the iPhone handled tasks, and the Notes synced with Entourage Notes... If Notes are great in Leopard, I guess I'll be fine with moving to that) » POSTED IN:
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