GTD: priorities and fake due dates
Michael Gorsline at GTD Times has an excellent post that addresses a sticky issue for many who use GTD - either religiously or agnostically: priority.
Many GTD-type software programs allow users to assign a priority to a to-do item. Gorsline argues (persuasively, in my opinion) that hard-assigning a priority to individual tasks doesn’t take into account [...]
GTD Workflow, post-iPhone 2.0
The iPhone’s 2.0 software introduced a new range of capabilities to the phone and the iPod Touch, the chief of which is the platform for new applications. For the first time, I’ve been able to create a plan for Getting Things Done that include a true mobile workflow and not a workaround.
Todd’s Six Workflow Requirements
Your [...]
Preparing to Vacate
My concentration is straying to our vacation, which begins on Wednesday and lasts into early next week. I tried to do up a little post over the weekend on Chandler and couldn’t think about it long enough to write more than a paragraph. Probably because it’s kind of ugly in its duckling phase. I’ve heard [...]
CalDAV unites Google Calendar and iCal
Even with all the recent MobileMe goodness, I’m still dependent on Google Calendar, even if just to maintain backup access to my calendar in the cloud. I use Spanning Sync to keep my current calendar updated on both GCal and iCal, and Spanning Sync works with few problems. It’s an excellent program. And there are [...]
MobileMe moves to center stage?
MobileMe two weeks in: I’ve basically stopped using Google Calendar entirely. It continues to stay in lock step with iCal via Spanning Sync, but I’ve really been getting into letting MobileMe push calendar stuff to my phone and iCal on a couple of computers.
I experienced some calendar downtime for a couple hours on Monday, but [...]
Cleaning out the Digital Closet, part 2
Two or three people commented to me about the post I wrote on pulling the plug on massive email archives. Yes, not two, but perhaps as many as three commented. (I don’t remember.)
Given that outpouring of response, I thought I’d give you an update. But first, a recap: in September, I determined that my vital [...]
Cleaning out the digital closet
We’ve moved twice in the past year, and each moving event was preceded by a purge of old, unneeded stuff.
The first purge (we call it The August Putsch) helped us find new homes, or a final resting place, for a couple hundred books, some furniture, and a pile of old clothes. The second purge (The [...]

