Accomplishment

Well, if I'm going to have blog and post things to the world, I may as well post my success.

After my last "I'm going to start right now" post, I managed to: convert my blog to Blogger 2.0, change the layout, find the photos, etc., etc. Not a good use of time.

However, I have also managed to clear off my desk. I've made a task of those files I need to work on (my own portion of the system, and it works just fine. I've packed up some work and my personal recorder to take home so that I can begin to work tonight.

Now I am out to dinner with a colleague, and I will hopefully go home, get inspired, and actually start a mind dump tonight. It could be fun!

Plus, I'm re-reading "Getting Things Done", as you can see from the recently added list on the right. Along with a few others. What can I say, I'm a bit scatter brained.

One more reason the Blackberry is so darn cool.....

Ok, so this is primarily YABGTDB (Yet Another Bloody GTD Blog), and I have previously railed against the constant farting around that people seem to do with the GTD system. Fine. However, Google is certainly embracing the BB movement pretty wholeheartedly.

Google has released a few apps for the BB, including Google Maps and most importantly for GTD'ers, GMail. I don't really use GMail all that much, but I know there are a lot of GTD'ers that are trying to use nothing but the Google apps. Having it so mobile should help them out. There is no BB program to sync the unit's calendar with Google Calendar, but I'm sure that is coming. (How long until Google acquires Open Office and integrates it's suite of apps into an Outlook-type program?)

One last thing - I blogged this on my Blackberry. Using my Gmail account. Really, quite useful. A blog as a ubiquitous capture tool anyone? A whole new meaning to 5ives (http://www.5ives.com).

Hitching a ride on a runaway train...

This has got to be the worst implementation of GTD since the book has been published. Since the previous post, I've been nearly blinded by what I have to do. Staffing changes, holidays, working in other offices, an influx of new business... everything has been working against me. And what have I decided to do? Blog of course. This is the type of thing that I frankly railed against in a previous post, but here I am succumbing to it myself.

So, that being said - here I go! No more procrastination, I'm going to implement GTD AGAIN starting right now.

Wish me luck.

Returning from a Hiatus

I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus for the last quarter or so. Since starting a new job before the New Year, I haven’t posted here, and my apologies. The truth be told, I’ve kind of been swept up trying to drink from the firehose of my new job, and have sort of fallen off the GTD bandwagon. Time to pick that back up.

One thing I need to mention is that I’ve now switched (irrevocably) away from my old Palm Tungsten E to a RIM Blackberry 8703e (from Telus Mobility) (aka “the crackberry”). Man, these things are truly addictive. E-mail, scheduling, tasks, phone, contacts all rolled into one. Plus, my company has a full Exchange implementation, with Over-The-Air (OTA) synchronization, so if I put an appointment into my calendar (or add a task, or change a phone number) on my crackberry, it automagically syncs to my Exchange server. Plus it has EVDO-speed web access, and a ton of other great stuff. And it just works and has never needed to be reset. It is wicked cool. SWMBO already hates it.

I’ve found some software and stuff for this, and will be talking about implementing GTD on a crackberry more and more as time goes on. However, at the end of the day, I’m going to use my blog to go back to what I started it for – support on my journey through GTD. I’ll review some software and stuff along the way, and will ensure that us BB addicts that are using GTD have a place to talk. I hear the bandwagon coming, so it’s time for me to jump back on.

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