I stopped doing GTD. And I totally shouldn't have.
I have determined that the problem was the lack of an "always there" todo list and note taking device. I write too slowly and am not organized enough to use my moleskine (never mind that I also tend to forget it), and my lifestyle is too mobile to just use a laptop.
I tried iGTD and Omnifocus. Ominfocus was too heavy on the resources, though by now I should probably try it again (maybe when they come up with an iPhone rich client). I also used Circus Ponies' Notebook, which was pretty nice but didn't do spotlight with enough granularity. Then I tried Journler (for journaling, never used it for GTD) and now I'm trying out Evernote. So how does Evernote compare?
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ZDNet published an article on How to avoid receiving an $837.20 iPhone bill which is very much worth reading. Here are some of my Strategies when traveling internationally with an iPhone
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"Get stuff done every day. If the task is too large, break it down and explain what you're doing. But get something done every day.
It's too easy for us to say "I'm still working on associating the widgets to the watzits". But with this level of information the customer only hears " - still - ".
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Besides the iLife Suite, here are some applications I've found useful lately. Here they are. I will update this in the next few days.
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I am now using Twitter again. I am hackerdude, of course. Come join the fun!
En Consumer.es, Alexey Pazhitnov (creador de Tetris) dice que El software libre sólo es una rebeldía estéril, y se pone a opinar acerca de capitalismo versus socialismo.
Creo que reducir esto a "socialismo/capitalismo" es una reacción que sobresimplifica un asunto que es por naturaleza complejo, tomando prestados temas de política para crear miedo, con la idea probablemente de proteger su mercado (como hacer pipí en los árboles si eres canino), y demuestra un problema de entendimiento tanto de los sistemas de libre mercado como de los sistemas socialistas. Me explico:
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Here are some thoughts on success by Steve Jobs, prompted by a question asked at the D5 conference where he had a joint interview with Bill Gates. The whole thing is worth watching, or listening to, or reading the transcripts but this is relevant if you work in this business.
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I set up instiki locally for my own notes and I needed to get it to start automatically in a proper way. I found an excellent tip on how to create launchd items using the property list editor. Works like a charm.
Now I even made a web clipping dashboard widget with the homepage of my instiki on localhost. Awesome.
I do consulting and sometimes I deal with different clients/projects. This requires a bit of compartmentalized thinking, but I still like to do it fast without having to endlessly tweak my setup. By now I have evolved a way to set up a new customer (when I get a whole new project) on my Mac. This discusses my filters, calendars, and other programs. So this is basically my cheatsheet.
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I do love my iPhone. But.. I'm writing this while commuting on an underground train, of course without a connection. And of course there's Airplane mode. Being out of the country. There's a million reasons to need to use the iPhone disconnected.
You just can't tell me that, since the programming model is fully on the web, that I cannot use my apps when not connected. People's brains just don't work like that. It's a major cognitive dissonance that of the 12 main menu options on the machine, 5 don't work unless you are connected at the time.
So a "real" programming model, with a rich language and apps that get downloaded to the machine and store their data locally simply makes sense.
I mean, this machine has 8Gb of storage, for crying out loud.
At least my Blackberry was smart enough to know when it was disconnected and would save the request for when it connected again (so it could show me the pages on the message viewer). I missed that today.