I”ve just downloaded the trial version of MyLifeOrganised as a few people have been going on about it and I thought it was pretty good to start off with. It took a while to set up but it was working quite nicely. I then found that it would sync with Outlook so did that and […] … Read More »

You can use Flags and Rules to Organise your emails so that they fit in with David Allen's Getting Things Done Methodology. … Read More »

The Moleskine notebook is hugely popular within the GTD community. Personally I’m not sure what all the fuss is about, it’s just a notebook! Anyway, the reason for this post  is that there’s a rather strange “Moleskine – The Book of Revenge” advert on the ‘Net at the moment (requires Quicktime). There are quite a […] … Read More »

Over at To-Done, Bob Walsh has provided a link for a nifty Time Auditing Template (requires Excel, I’ve not tried it in Open Office yet). Here’s an excerpt from the article: “So you’re Getting Things Done, you’ve defined your projects, implemented your productivity processes and are humming right along with the future’s so bright you need […] … Read More »

The guys over at Open Loops have written a post on estimating how long it takes to complete a project (I knew algebra would come in handy one day!). Basically you use the following formula to work out the duration: Te=(To+4Tm+Tp)/6 Key: Te = Realistic time estimate To = Most optimistic time estimate (the Sunny […] … Read More »

Don’t want to spend a fortune on a PDA or spend ages making a HipsterPDA? Try Pocket Mod. Bit fiddly to fold though. … Read More »

I’ve now got my pocket PC hooked up to my work laptop and all the tasks have been syncronised. It took a while, especially as I couldn’t download ActiveSync from the Microsoft website (and I’m still waiting for a response from my support query) but I managed to finally download it from another site. If […] … Read More »

This is a popular subject at the moment at various sites I visit. Lifehacker has posted an article called “Alarm Clock Hacks help you wake up better“. “Put one alarm clock on your night stand, the other across the room. Set the clocks to be as close to the same time as possible… I set … one […] … Read More »

A couple of years ago the problem with email is that 90% of the messages received were Spam and there was very little we could do about it. Modern technologies now allow us to filter messages before, and after, they hit our inbox dramitically reducing the amount of rubbish that we have to wade through […] … Read More »