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Re: [43F Group] dear

geneh...@gmail.com (John SJ Anderson) — Wed, 08 Aug 2009 20:50:49 UT

[snip]
Apologies for the noise, folks -- the poster has been removed from the list.
chrs,
john.

dear

sule...@gmail.com (Gez) — Wed, 08 Aug 2009 16:59:10 UT

<DIV>Hello,<BR>
One of my friends bought an iphone from a website:  <A
href="[link]">[link]</A><BR>
He has got the phone, its quality is very good. And the website is
promoting their products these days, so they have very good price and
big discount now. This website also sells tv,motor,laptop and so on.

Re: reply to this thread and get 4 months free TaskWriter Premium Membership

tim.howl...@gmail.com (Timothee) — Fri, 08 Aug 2009 08:23:04 UT

Um, yeah. That wasn't clear at all. Big difference.

I wasn't impressed by the software at all. Really not much there.

-Tim Howland

Re: reply to this thread and get 4 months free TaskWriter Premium Membership

k...@taskwriter.com (Katy) — Thu, 08 Aug 2009 15:33:48 UT

Just to make everything crystal clear on our offer : the discount code
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Re: reply to this thread and get 4 months free TaskWriter Premium Membership

thelw...@gmail.com (Mata) — Thu, 08 Aug 2009 14:45:54 UT

I would like to try it out.

Re: [43F Group] reply to this thread and get 4 months free TaskWriter Premium Membership

geneh...@gmail.com (John SJ Anderson) — Wed, 08 Aug 2009 17:25:09 UT

Folks, if you're interested in Katy's offer, please reply DIRECTLY TO
HER, not to the group -- we don't need a bunch of "add me" traffic
moving over the list.
thanks,
john,
aka the list mom.

Re: reply to this thread and get 4 months free TaskWriter Premium Membership

k...@taskwriter.com (Katy) — Wed, 08 Aug 2009 15:55:22 UT

Seems that I forgot to add the link to TaskWriter.

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reply to this thread and get 4 months free TaskWriter Premium Membership

k...@taskwriter.com (Katy) — Wed, 08 Aug 2009 15:53:25 UT

Hi,

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Re: Getting back...

tim.howl...@gmail.com (Timothee) — Sat, 07 July 2009 17:27:36 UT

Great post, Peter! Many excellent tips there.

I just recently restarted and re-invented my task organization (using
MyLifeOrganized), and the value of "someday,maybe" finally clicked
this 14th time around: it's liberating. Not everything must be
weighed on a universal importance scale anymore: things that are

Re: [43F Group] Getting back...

peter.a.ja...@gmail.com (Peter Jaros) — Fri, 07 July 2009 18:54:57 UT

I go in cycles as well, and every time I get a little closer to
something truly maintainable. Let me give you a tip from my latest
go-round:
Use the hell out of your Someday/Maybe lists.
Before you put something on an action or project list, ask yourself:
when I find myself in the context to take action on this, am I really

Re: [43F Group] Re: Getting back...

de...@derekschauland.com (Derek Schauland) — Tue, 07 July 2009 13:55:04 UT

Organization and or organizational focus might be the best place though to
re-begin.

I am downloading a mind mapping app now (may have questions there as the
concept is a bit foreign). I guess the multiple streams of things to get
done seem to come from lack of focus on any one thing, but I am not sure of

Re: Getting back...

jabberwo...@gmail.com (Evan JabberWokky Edwards) — Tue, 07 July 2009 13:50:49 UT

Not a bad idea, but after getting all your thoughts onto paper, the
GTD thing to do would be to take that basket to the inbox and process
it. Note that he asked how to get back into a GTD cycle having
already done it before, not generally "how to get organized" (which is
a different thing entirely, and has loads of different techniques,

Re: Getting back...

tim.howl...@gmail.com (Timothee) — Tue, 07 July 2009 11:51:16 UT

I would first address the "just floating around and making my head
spin". I'd put all those projects and ideas "down on paper" (and thus
out of my head) - first, using freeware XMind to quickly mind-map it,
group things, see the big picture(s), then, using a good hierarchical
task outliner like MyLifeOrganized to start getting detailed, enter

Re: Getting back...

jabberwo...@gmail.com (Evan JabberWokky Edwards) — Mon, 07 July 2009 18:39:44 UT

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:20 PM, DerekS<de...@derekschauland.co m>
wrote:

My method for catching up when you've got too much to bring into
the system at once:

Collect from all baskets into one inbox. Then do a daily review
(start or end of day), and don't worry about getting through all of

Getting back...

de...@derekschauland.com (DerekS) — Mon, 07 July 2009 18:20:14 UT

Hello All -

I have been on and off the wagon several times with respect to GTD and
have finally noticed that all the things I want/need to get to are
just floating around and making my head spin.

However I am not sure at which point to jump back into the GTD
system. Thought I would see if anyone had any thoughts or tips on

ActionComplete - a GTD-inspired task manager/todo list organizer for Android-based mobile phones

burna...@gmail.com (Borys Burnayev) — Thu, 04 Apr 2009 14:44:04 UT

Dear Sir/Madam:
ActionComplete is a GTD-inspired task manager/todo list organizer for
Android-based mobile phones.
You are welcome to have a look at actioncomplete.com for screenshots,
documentation, and other support resources.
Thanks,
Borys

GTD in Outlook: Jello Dashboard has a new version

druq...@gmail.com (druqbar) — Sat, 02 Feb 2009 17:38:46 UT

Three years after my very first message in this group about the first
release of Jello Dashboard, I would like to inform you that there is a
new version of the Dashboard.

Jello Dashboard is a Getting Things Done (GTD) solution for Microsoft
Outlook 2003 and
above. It consists of several javascript files running under a single

Re: [43F Group] Re: What is the point?

garyolip...@googlemail.com (gary oliphant) — Fri, 02 Feb 2009 20:33:21 UT

Hi Michael, It seems to me your trying to put the 'cart before the horse'.
You need to find a planning technique that suits your way of thinking. Once
you've identified your technique, looking for a tool will become more
straightforward. Try researching the planning methods and techniques that

Re: [43F Group] Re: What is the point?

mgr...@gmail.com (Michael Grant) — Fri, 02 Feb 2009 17:59:23 UT

I'm using OmniFocus and like it very much for task management, but I'm
still looking for something that can provide a more structured
approach for planning and organizing individual projects -- again,
without getting into the industrial-strength "project management"
domain. Part of the problem is that I don't have a real clear idea of

Re: What is the point?

gggarr...@gmail.com (George) — Fri, 02 Feb 2009 01:01:23 UT

Omnifocus is superb at helping you just focus on a single project, or
any combination of projects that you choose.

George

Re: Pencil that writes forever

marcw...@123mail.org (marcwomm) — Wed, 02 Feb 2009 10:14:49 UT

I have ordered one from Grand Illusions and once have it and tested
it, I am happy to report back.

Best regards
Marcus

Re: Pencil that writes forever

tagusti...@gmail.com (toen) — Wed, 02 Feb 2009 01:06:44 UT

Interesting.

Now I use uni kuru toga pencil, it's a mechanical pencil from
Mitsubishi with has sort of mechanism to keep it's sharp (around 7$).
[link]

Re: Pencil that writes forever

marcw...@123mail.org (marcwomm) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:50:58 UT

Hi,
I have found it again:

[link]

Best regards
Marcus

Pencil that writes forever

marcw...@123mail.org (marcwomm) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:59:53 UT

Hi,
I had found a website a fe months ago that offers a pencil that does
not need sharpening and literally writes forever.
Unfortunately I have "lost" the site and cannot find it again and I
did not write the URL or name of it down.
It has a slick slim form in dark gray, nearly black which makes it

Re: Using Evernote for Online Research and Filing

joem...@googlemail.com (Joe) — Sat, 02 Feb 2009 09:42:25 UT

Here it is: [link]

Re: Using Evernote for Online Research and Filing

lynno...@gmail.com (lynnoc) — Fri, 02 Feb 2009 16:35:01 UT

I have tried to find the site you mentioned, on using everynote for
research filing etc, and failed. Could you please post the link for
us? thanks.

Re: [43F Group] Re: sweet! gmail to do list

jamesburd...@gmail.com (James Burdine) — Fri, 02 Feb 2009 02:49:17 UT

Hi, I've recently found the Remember The Milk sync to G_Cal. It works great
as a task manager!

Re: [43F Group] sweet! gmail to do list

tsha...@gmail.com (Tom Shannon) — Thu, 02 Feb 2009 19:52:41 UT

This link isn't up to date. Go to settings under gmail and click on
the "Labs" link. The ability to work offline can be enabled there.
Sorry,
Tom

Re: [43F Group] sweet! gmail to do list

tsha...@gmail.com (Tom Shannon) — Thu, 02 Feb 2009 19:50:08 UT

Not to be too negative but the functionality is pretty basic in some
ways. For instance, no tags.
I was much more excited about the recent addition of syncing for offline use:
[link]
Cheers,
Tom S.

sweet! gmail to do list

davidcra...@gmail.com (Dave) — Thu, 02 Feb 2009 19:33:05 UT

[link]

good stuff, now I don't have to buy the $60 Things from cultured code

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Re: Mendeley - A tool for OS X to manage and share your research papers

jan.reich...@mendeley.com (jan.reichelt@mendeley.com) — Thu, 02 Feb 2009 09:40:57 UT

Thanks for the tip - we didn't know! That's not nice of Websense...
Already started to look for the reason, but I think we'll have to send
them an e-mail for clarification.

Jan

Using Evernote for Online Research and Filing

joem...@googlemail.com (Joe) — Wed, 02 Feb 2009 17:08:36 UT

You might have seen this post on another forum. But I would be really
interested if someon has any experience. I just set up an Evernote
account but struggle with putting a system to together to help wih the
research I am doing for my masters.

There is an article posted on whakate.com about using Evernote for

Re: [43F Group] Mendeley - A tool for OS X to manage and share your research papers

j...@mayson.us (John Mayson) — Tue, 02 Feb 2009 23:29:12 UT

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:21 AM, jan.reich...@mendeley.com
Are you aware Websense blocks your site?
Reason: The Websense category "Illegal or Questionable" is filtered.
I'm not accusing you of this, but just letting you know.
John

Mendeley - A tool for OS X to manage and share your research papers

jan.reich...@mendeley.com (jan.reichelt@mendeley.com) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:21:30 UT

Hi, seeing this group is about productivity tricks for OSX and also
because I intend to bring quite some older post up-to-date (e.g. "OS X
Bibliography tools" or "PDF tagging") I'd like to suggest you have a
look at Mendeley ([link], I'm a co-founder).

Mendeley is free academic software (for Mac, Windows and Linux) and a

Re: [43F Group] Re: What is the point?

mgr...@gmail.com (Michael Grant) — Tue, 02 Feb 2009 14:46:17 UT

The one tool function I feel a sore lack of is personal-scope project
management. There are plenty of individual-task managers out there,
and most of them do offer some level of grouping or hierarchical
structure, but I'm not aware of anything that really allows the user
to focus on the project level without spinning off into PMBOK-land. I

Re: What is the point?

davidcra...@gmail.com (Dave) — Tue, 02 Feb 2009 05:27:13 UT

yea, some of this stuff does seem a bit much for me too.

I think people just need to :
KISS - keep it simple stupid
and write down ( paper, pda, computer or wherever) the MIT -most
important tasks for your day in order of importance.

I am reading the book 30 days to a simple life. its got some great

Getting Word Done with Tasks and your Google Calendar

a...@manymoon.com (Amit) — Wed, 01 Jan 2009 23:37:13 UT

Hi - we are excited to announce the following new features to
Manymoon:

* Ability to integrate tasks with your Google Calendar.
* Upload any files from your computer and attach them to any task or
project.
* SSL encryption.
* Twitter-like feature: let other people know what you're working on

Re: Free To Do List and Project Management Application

d.rainma...@gmail.com (A Mueller) — Mon, 01 Jan 2009 16:50:03 UT

Testing Zoho Projects right now, you can test it for a single project
for free. So far so good, fast and fairly intuitive.

On Jan 18, 4:26 pm, david patrick doran <davidp.do...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Re: [43F Group] Re: Free To Do List and Project Management Application

davidp.do...@gmail.com (david patrick doran) — Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:26:31 UT

Anybody tried/using Zoho projects?

david patrick doran, ccim
World Head Quarters
612-743-8606

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2009, at 6:01 PM, indrekthebest <indrektheb...@gmail.com>
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Re: Free To Do List and Project Management Application

indrektheb...@gmail.com (indrekthebest) — Mon, 01 Jan 2009 00:01:20 UT

Quite interesting and nice app. Especially I like the ability to work
with Google Docs.
I still prefer [link] as it is much easier. Althought it does
not have so much features.

Re: What is the point?

rickla.r...@gmail.com (rickdude) — Tue, 01 Jan 2009 23:51:02 UT

Yet another person in a similar boat here. For me, a key thing is
keeping healthy and getting enough sleep. If I do that, I can
generally keep my systems going fine; if I feel a bit run down, the
last thing I feel like doing is a weekly review.

In retrospect, I think I made a mistake when reading GTD for the first

Getting things Done in Android

kwameshear...@gmail.com (kwameshearrod@gmail.com) — Tue, 12 Dec 2008 21:54:11 UT

While I thing google made a valiant attempt I feel that many of these
developers are still missing the point. Not only is there a need for a
simple clean interface, there is a need for one to be able to access
edit and manipulate all this information from any device they are
using whether it me MAC, PC, Iphone, Android, and even black berry. I

Re: What is the point?

kwameshear...@gmail.com (kwameshearrod@gmail.com) — Tue, 12 Dec 2008 21:47:58 UT

I thing you are very correct. determining what the end state should be
is one thing many people fail to do. That is probably one of the most
valuable things I have learned from the getting things done method.

Re: What is the point?

ahero2l...@gmail.com (mandaris) — Tue, 12 Dec 2008 17:56:27 UT

My problem (or maybe just the way I feel) is that a lot of people
(myself included) get so caught up in the tools, that we loose track
of what the end results should be. Maybe it's the tools that I've
used, but I don't feel that they promote anything other than
collecting and organizing "stuff". Sure we can all do something after

Re: [43F Group] Re: What is the point?

kwameshear...@gmail.com (C. K. S) — Tue, 12 Dec 2008 05:55:38 UT

Ok I fully understand now. The answer for me is yes and no. The issue I have
been having and I believe many have this issue is the ubundance of
information we receive in our daily lives. Many must "mutitask" at both work
and home. We have work email, personal email many carry mobile phones, note
pads, organizers, and some a pda also. We input information in all these

Re: [43F Group] Re: What is the point?

ewb...@gmail.com (Bryan Ewbank) — Tue, 12 Dec 2008 04:40:19 UT

"Pushing things around your plate" is what a kid does when they don't
want to eat their vegetables :-)

Here, it means (roughly) "are you improving your productivity",
instead of "are you avoiding work by continually changing your
process"...

Hope this helps,
-bryan

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 20:15, kwameshear...@gmail.com

Re: What is the point?

kwameshear...@gmail.com (kwameshearrod@gmail.com) — Tue, 12 Dec 2008 01:15:57 UT

Sorry I don't quite understand what you are trying to say

What is the point?

ahero2l...@gmail.com (mandaris) — Tue, 12 Dec 2008 00:45:15 UT

How many of you are using this for tips and tricks versus looking for
a way to "push things around on your plate"?

Free To Do List and Project Management Application

a...@manymoon.com (Amit) — Thu, 12 Dec 2008 01:04:50 UT

Hi,

We developed an easy to use, online task and project management
application that works with Google Docs and has also been used by
people using GTD.

Manymoon is like Facebook for projects.

Manymoon is free and you can sign-up here:

[link]

Some of Manymoon's features: