Comments on: Keeping Track of Work

By: Matt Williams

Matt Williams — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:22:26 +0000

I use a variety of diarying and to-do list applications, web and desktop apps, but the thing that makes our company work really well is having a big whiteboard that we continually update, and rewrite completely once a week.

It works well for me because I think better when I’m speaking, and writing as I speak is easy and decisive. I guess I also think well when I’m in the shower, but we’re not Golgafrinchans so I have held back on installing a shower cubicle in the office.

By: Pop Stalin

Pop Stalin — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:43:30 +0000

Thanks Steve. For the time being, I’m actually using Entourage’s built-in Project. Like I said, I’m not digging the whole GTD system. I may like it more if I could automate it a bit more.

Thanks for the kind words about my site. Good luck with yours!

By: Steve Hill

Steve Hill — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:51:34 +0000

I haven’t looked into it properly yet because I’ve only just started using it myself, but there is a GTD extension which you can bolt onto GMail. So if you receive an email RFQ, you can flag/label it ToDo or something similar. I don’t know if there’s a way to get GMail to send you reminders, but it’s something to look into.

BTW love your site and the concept of what you’re offering as a service. I’m just in the process of starting to set up something similar here in the UK, and will be popping (no pun intended) by from time to time for inspiration.

By: Pop Stalin

Pop Stalin — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:36:32 +0000

Hey, thanks for stopping by! How’s it going?

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:29:55 +0000

Ex-coworker Natalie? Yup, yup.

By: Pop Stalin

Pop Stalin — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:28:14 +0000

Brian @: That’s what I’ve been doing, except for the sending an email reminder part. May end up going that direction.

Natalie @: I’ve actually checked out Daylight, too complicated for me (or I’m just too lazy to take the time to learn it) but thanks for the tip. BTW, is this by chance the Natalie I know???

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:03:35 +0000

When I was at Web Directions North Dave Shea and Veerle Pieters did a presentation on the design process and briefly touched on tools to help keep you on track. An interesting one was Daylite, it might fit your needs.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:35:51 +0000

Then, I second David’s idea. Maybe you could set a filter in your mail program to whisk RFQ e-mails off to a special folder, and have it e-mail you a reminder at some time in the day to sit down and reply to them.

By: Pop Stalin

Pop Stalin — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:48:20 +0000

I don’t think my overall problem is the doing of the task but the remembering of doing the task. I’m gettin’ old and my memory is goin’.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:58:20 +0000

What about setting aside an hour or two at the same time each day/week for those tasks?

That way it doesn’t matter what software or tools you use. You’ve scheduled to do it and can then have that time in mind when allocating working hours to other projects.

Just a thought.