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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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 iGTD - MailTags - BentoSubmitted by BK0001 on December 6, 2007 - 3:43pm.
Entourage for 7 years as well, and I have to say the pros of leaving far outweigh the cons: <br/>- quick look on mail.app attachments is the killer app that I can now not live without <br/>- no longer having all my data in one gigantic 6GB corruptible database helps me sleep easier at night <br/>- Very happy with email GTD workflow using iGTD (single F6 keystroke)/ MailTags <br/>- super quick search <br/>- much faster (bringing up Address Book in Entourage was a bear) <br/>- Address Book and iCal limitations seem dealt with, mostly, via Bento (although custom new fields on Bento would be nice to show in Address Book). PS: I understand that Bento does not sync per-se with Address Book and iCal, but actually accesses the exact database. Change something in Bento switch to Address Book, and you see the change in Address Book. Pretty cool, and infinitely customizable. » POSTED IN:
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