I have been using TodoList by abstractspoon.com for about a month now, and I was easily impressed enough to donate to the author, but not as much as I probably should have for the usefulness of it.
I first started using it only as a “defect/feature” master list for one of my web sites.
The software i mentioned a little while back, MasterList Professional is definitely fullfilling the need for organizing my projects, -scheduling regular tasks to update websites I have, quickly creating new tasks, etc..
However, I also wanted this program to replace the free web-based ‘feature/bug management program’ I was using, (called “Mantis”)..
So I’m using MLPRO to also keep track of bugs/features for new websites/programs I write. I’ll see as time goes by, how it works to integrate absolutely every project and their tasks into one program.
One of the other ways I use GTD (i.e. MasterList) in Software Dev’t :
This has nothing to do with being the end of the year. (i.e. These aren’t what I necessarily discovered in the past 12 months.)
I just felt like publicizing my currently favorite, most useful products/tools/languages.
PHP - Useful, easy, fun to use. Even just at home, I use PHP along with MySql to do several things on my private Apache server on my PC, ( including an “expected shipment” list where every time I order something, I enter in the item ordered, the U.P.S. tracking number along with a link to U.P.S. website, and a checkbox to check when received.)
I started using UltraEdit - a programmer’s editor - for much more than just writing DOS batch files or editing configuration .INI files.
I realized suddenly that I always seem to have Ultraedit open in memory. It survives all of my other “application closing/opening”, and seems to hang around ready to switch to.
There is enough stuff to get home once I walk in the door after work. The floor workout I do, starting dinner, opening mail, answering calls, etc..But when I open my Email, I usually get email from myself, that I emailed from work. I don’t want to think about how to file it!.. Not even one ounce of quantum ionic unit of mental energy.
I finally bit the bullet and just bought Outlook 2003 at Fry’s. What a Smooth Velvety feel to it, moving up from using Outlook Express. There are probably many anti-Outlook people out there, (or anti-windows or anti-MS), but this thing, along with the GTD Outlook Add-In, makes being in that GTD groove really nice and easy.(Fortunately the David Allen company still had my registration info from when I originally bought the Add-In back in 2002, when I had Outlook at a previous job, so I was able to re-download it without re-purchasing)
It’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in Free Ebooks - hopefully one of the things that David Allen will address in a future edition of his newsletter or a book, or whatever, will be how to deal with this.Since huge Hard Drives are so cheap, you don’t really have to limit the actual number of ebooks you download! But the more you download, the larger your ‘pyschic bookshelf’ gets.
I started using a single index card as my palmpilot
for that day. I can’t stand writing on a palmpilot, maybe
some day there will a model that makes it like
paper.
