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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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 Agendus on TreoSubmitted by abruenin on December 4, 2007 - 3:54pm.
I am not really following the GTD methodology. Over the last 10 yrs, I made up my own, which is surprisingly very similar to GTD (and now I consider myself as an idiot for not writing a book about it before GTD came out ;-) In the office, the company gave me a Windows notebook with Outlook, at home I use a Mac. To get these in sync, I sync both of them to my Treo (on the Mac with MissingSync) on which I use Agendus for ToDo management. Though it supports 5 levels of importance, I only use 3 of them. For Todo's which have a fixed due date, I set the Todo to this date. Additional to this, Agendus supports the Eisenhower quadrants and the linking of Todo's to projects. Todo's can be sorted by several criterias, eg. by priority first and due date second. Overdue Todo's are marked red. I misuse the Eisenhower quadrants a bit by going through my Todo's each morning and put everything I want to be done the current day into the 1st quadrant. This is the one I look at when my Treo is in the docking station on my desk while I try to get through this list. There is also an Agendus for Windows, which hooks into Outlook. Unfortunately, this one only works with Exchange and Lotus servers, but the company I work for uses Oracle Collaboration Suite instead. There is no Agendus for Mac, though it is periodically wanted on the forum of www.iambic.com. I tried a Windows Mobile Device for a year, but as I did not find anything comparable to Agendus for Palm, I switched back. The Palm devices are far from beeing perfect, but for now it is the closest to my needs. But I wait for Android, the Palm Linux etc, hoping I will get my perfect device someday... » POSTED IN:
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