27
Aug
A step closer to productivity
A while ago, I saw a 43folders post on a GTD application called iCommit.
I originally attempted to sign up to the site from work, however at the time IE was not a supported browser. (And while I find it very cool that it supported just about everything but, I’m stuck with IE at work). I did send my home email account a link to the site, but in my busy life the whole thing got forgotten and the email just lurked in that pile of unread messages that inhabit my Outlook at home.
Until last night. Call it fate, or kismet or, more accurately, anything to avoid studying for that exam on Thursday, but I finally got around to sorting through that lurking terror and found the email. And as investigating this site would take me further away from the pleasures of Marketing Management, I checked it out.
Seems that the site now supports IE. Hurray! I can use it at work. Check off the first point on my list for viable GTD helpers.
Second on the list was that all important thing that keeps me drifting away from the tiddlywiki-on-a-stick solution – easy handling of projects and contexts. (GTD Tiddlywiki et al probably handle this perfectly well, but I’ve never managed to work it out).
Thirdly, it is able to be accessed on my locked-down, paranoid work machine which allows me access only to the very barest of essential programs, and the Internet.
So far so good.
So I register (Again. I didn’t do anything with my initial registration so it lapsed) and checked it out. Today, all of my outstanding projects and next actions went inside. After a small perplexing moment when I couldn’t create a new context (a quick trip to the forums solved that issue) and another when only a few of my NAs turned up on the front page (it doesn’t show me anything with a reminder date other than today) I sorted that out, reassigned my reminders for actually viable dates rather than wish-dates and I was off.
So now all I have to do is collect, process and organise my home life, get it all into iCommit and I should be right to go. This is a bigger task (not exactly more projects, just less incentive to be organised in the first place).
But what I really want is something with a bit of backup to it. So I’m investigating my options with something like GTD-PHP hosted on my own server. That way, I’m in charge. Of course, I couldn’t work my way around an Apache/sql/php maze if my life depended on it, so this could be a challenge.
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