Rob’s Digital Life

I’m a tad late to the party with this one, but as we’ve migrated from Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook as our corporate email within Orange Business Services, it’s finally given me a change to try out Xobni. So far it’s pretty neat it’s made a difference while on a call, being able to quickly search [...]

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I was just reading this post by JP and found it extremely interesting. I intend to read the concepts behind the thinking when I get some more time.
The theory is that inability to react quickly within large organisations are due to the fact that it’s so difficult to schedule meetings. Meetings are often arrange days, [...]

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I’ve been working my way this week through the process of a full implementaion of the GTD methodology and all seems to be going OK. I previously had implemented a partial system, ie. I had a full next action list and projects list but my filing system was shot. So I spent about 7 hours [...]

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Having just come back from a four day trip to southern spain (28 degress…hmm) I know what this post is getting at, how to clean out your red inbox.
My big tip here is to start with the most recent emails and work backwards. That way you can deal with the latest version of a hideous [...]

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Two reasons for this post. One, an awful lot of people complained about the volume of emails we receive these days.
And secondly to test Technorati tags
Technorati Tags: GTD

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what a great idea, take a pic of them and upload to flickr available anywhere..cool.

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I’ve got two presentations to give over the next three days to the European network teams. So I’m busy writing the material today and reading the tips of giving great presentations such as this and this.
My own tips are, don’t rush through the presentation, take your time. Don’t put all the information into the slides, [...]

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I just made a suggestion to Brett for his Notes GTD tool. I’ve asked Brett to include a task time option so you can assign a time indicator to an action. So when you’ve got 5 mins between two conf calls you can view all tasks that have a task time of 5 mins and [...]

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Following on the idea of the procrastination dash and Jeff’s progressive dash,
I’ve been experimenting with a squirelly new system to pound through my
procrastinated to-do list. Brace yourself, because it is a bit more byzantine than is Merlin 2005’s newly stripped-down habit. It’s called (10+2)*5, and today it will save your ass.
 
Who it’s for

procrastinators
the easily distracted
compulsive [...]

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My first Moleskine notebook arrived yesterday morning. It’s a peice of art and almost too good to spoil by writing in it.

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Tipmonkies has a roundup of the online calendar tools. I’m still looking for one and I’ll give these a quick look.

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I’ve dumped MLO as it’s just too cumbersome. It’s great as a project tool but just too big for a simple actions recording and reminding tool. I don’t use outlook so I don’t benefit from any of that functionality. So I’m back using the Notes template.

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Reading GTD Wannabe a few days back and I stumbled on MLO, that’s My Life Organised. The pro’s so far appear to be it’s hugely powerful. I really like the projects functionality of MLO. I’m still playing with the 45 day trial version at this point, but it seems to be hitting all the right [...]

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A few weeks back I got the chance to pick up a new printer so I did about 10 mins research and plumped for the iP3000. It turns out that 43 folders makes the iP3000 the winner for it’s challenge of printing index cards. That’s pretty good, the readers of 43 folders suggested over 30 [...]

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  secondary screen    Originally uploaded by Rob Evans.
Had a bad day with wireless today the AP died so it’s back to a wired connection for a while until I replace the AP.
But it dawned on me that as I was now having to sit at the PC desk that [...]

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