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| posted at 09:00:00 By Flipping Heck! | Posted In GTD/Productivity |
So, it's been a week since I last wrote about my decision to pit my Moleskine against my PDA and I have to say, I've failed miserably so far!
My main problem is that I feel poncy using my PDA in public, then you also have to factor in the danger of loosing it or having it nicked when I'm down my local pub.
I'm still having problems managing certain lists - mainly my lost of blogging software improvements that seem increase daily. So, it looks like I'm back to square one... again!
What I'm thinking is to use something at home to manage my blogging to-dos and keep my moleskine for work. The only issue with that is that I then don't have a truly ubiquitous capture tool to hand
Argh! Decisions, decisions! I'll keep you all updated in my search for ....
| posted at 09:00:00 By Flipping Heck! | Posted In Review |
I've been toying with the idea recently of going back to use my PDA again for calendar and task management.
I know, I know! I've long been a staunch supporter of using Moleskine's for managing my tasks, and my phone for managing my calendar but it's starting to get a bit too complicated for my poor little notebook to handle.
The issue I have is that I before I was tending to work on long-term project at a time; now I seem to be flitting between short, medium and long-term projects and the system I've developed (and that has worked well for the past year and a half) just won't cut the mustard any more.
I have several issues/requirements at the moment regarding project management:
- The system needs to be simple - I can't be doing with too much rubbish otherwise I won't use it.
- The system needs to be portable - I have to be able to take it anywhere without too much hassle
- It needs minimal software/website access - Security policies at work make it difficult to use new software that's not sanctioned by management
- It needs to be cross-platform - I need it to work on a PC and Mac as I don't know which platform I'll be working on.
Now, syncing Windows Mobile to a Mac is notoriously difficult and Microsoft (for some unknown reason) doesn't supply a Mac version of their ActivSync so I....
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I recently received an email asking me to look into a new service called "Who Does2.0" (yes, it has 2.0 in the title and a funky URL but bear with me!)
Who Does is a web-based project management system that allows you to assign tasks and milestones to projects and assign them to team members. Okay, so nothing new there really, however watching the screencasts there are a few features that set it apart from other similar sites such as Back Pack.
Adding and managing to-dos is a bit of a chore and when composing messages formatting them properly is difficult for someone who doesn....
| posted at 11:24:27 By Flipping Heck! | Posted In GTD/Productivity |
I had an email from a reader recently (yes, I have at least one!) regarding my paper based system and how I deal with managing projects/actions in order to avoid duplication across lists (e.g have an action assigned to a project list and then having the same action written on a context list). I thought I'd share my reply with you all here as I think it's quite a common problem and one that I don't really "get" in terms of GTD.
The Problem...
How to manage projects and avoid duplication of next actions across project/context lists
The Solution....?
I think my personal problem is the way I define projects in a very different way to the GTD idea that a project is a collection of 2 or more actions.
I see a project from more of a high-level project planning view where all actions are known and they must occur in a given order for the project to be completed on budget and on time - the curse of years in web project management I guess!
So basically, all of my actions are already pre-defined at the project planning stage and they're all within one context (e.g. @computer or @coding for example) so in essence the true context here would be the project itself.
You can view a simple project plan here or a more complicated project planner here.
| posted at 02:23:38 By Flipping Heck! | Posted In Personal |
I know I've been strangely quiet and only popping up ocasionally - withgood reason though!
I've been working on a rather large project at work which has beentaking up the majority of my time and energy. At home, I've been busilyorganising my CD collection - which I've been meaning to do for quite along time.
So far, so good. The majority of my CD collection is now on my Mac Book- the only problem is that my poor 4 gig Nano can't cope with them allnow. I'm a bit reticent to upgrade to the new 3rd generation Nano as Idon't know whether it's compatible with my i-Station(the website says it is but I'm never sure about these things!), orwhether I should upgrade to a video i-pod or something - suggestionswelcome!
I've also been playing with a new feed reader called Shrook. It's looking pretty good - although I can't seem to find a way to move the preview pane across the screen rather than have it in a third/fourth column.Shrook allows you to sync your feeds across multiple Macs, plus it hasthe added advantage that you can read your feeds via a website if youdon't have access to a Mac with Shrook installed.
Oh, and best of all, it's free!
I've also been fiddling around with Open Project to see if it's suitab....
| posted at 17:43:22 By Flipping Heck! | Posted In Review |
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solo crm is a tool that would suit most freelance designers and developers very well if they are managing multiple clients or projects.
The services it offers is quite customer-centric (hence the CRM part of the name!) and allow you to manage your projects and clients from one place. For example, you can manage all of your content requests to the clients (after you've created a project-based account for them) so that you're not endlessly ferreting around for an email to prove that you asked for it.
You can upload web URLs, images and content and attach these to tasks so that you and the client can monitor progress quickly and easily.
The part that interested me however was the tasks functionality. solo crm allows you set milestones and integrate a payment schedule with each milestone which is a different approach to other online collaboration tools I've seen that seem to ignore the fact that Freelancers might want to get paid! However they don't seem to have integrated billing functionality to automatically bill the client and link it to something like a PayPal account which is a shame.
There are 4 account types that are based on the number of projects/tasks that you need to run ranging from Free (1 Proje....
| posted at 09:40:00 By Flipping Heck! | Posted In Review |
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EarnMyDegree.com has collected a list of over 20 Project Management degree courses at a variety of levels that users can complete online.
The website provides a brief overview of the course contents as well as a handy link that enables you to request free information packs for the course(s) of your choice.
The list of available degrees is quite comprehensive covering Graduate, Bachelors, Masters and MBA levels so there's something there for every level of interest.
Whilst the website provides a link through to each university on the course details page, it would be nice to see the cost appearing here also so that you don't ask for information for a course you may not be able to afford and you also have to apply for the information for each course separately which is a bit of a pain if you wa....
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