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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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 To Dos a Leopard WeaknessSubmitted by bbebop on November 30, 2007 - 1:58am.
OmniFocus seems great so far. I'm trying to follow the classic GTD methodology using OF and it works quite well, especially when using OFs web interface with my iPhone while away from the office. I've been syncing OF tasks with iCal, but since there's no way to have iCal todos on the iPhone, that doesn't help much. I haven't been relying on reminders for todos. If I need a reminder, I make it a calendar item. I've settled on using Google Calendars as my basic calendaring system. Plaxo has been working pretty well to keep gCal and iCal (on different machines) in sync. I'd love it if I were able to keep the iPod in sync wirelessly and if there was a similar way to have todos in sync between my computers and the iPhone. » POSTED IN:
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