Posts tagged GTD

So I have a tendency to be booked all over the place considering that I cover Maryland, DC, and Virginia. My main problem is that quite often I will agree to do something over the phone and not put it in my calendar or just plain ignore my calendar and schedule things anyway. Now the truth is that I have no excuse to let stuff get screwy like this. I utilize Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, Twitter, and my company’s Exchange support. It actually is really effective because I let stuff live in the “cloud” and can change the data through several different mediums. I can send a tweet on my phone to Remember the Milk (RTM) and it puts the task/event on my list. I can also just add an even on my calendar in my phone and its syncs with Exchange. Then if I have no access to VPN or phone entry is not feasible then I can get on any computer with internet access and dump it on my Google Calendar. Google sync then does two way syncing with my Outlook Calendar and puts the data in both places. So my thinking is maybe I just have TOO many ways of adding things to my calendar and tasks. Maybe the whole process of getting stuff done is so convoluted that I need to consider streamlining it. I mean though it sounds really complicated it all makes sense to me and just works for me because I am always switching computers and my phone is always dying. Web 2.0 powered sites and apps are what makes this all run. Hmm… Maybe its not the system that is cause the problem but the pudgy human bit that should be maintaining it all. I think I shall make an effort to be better about that too. I already feel better about my blog and my postings. More to come later.