Welcome to my new blog and my first entry. This new blog is the start of a ‘review’, a ‘re-calibration’ of my life and my systems. I’m a firm follower of David Allen’s system, GTD, Getting Things Done workflow methodology and if I’m honest my system has recently gone of the rails. Having a blog allows me to put done my thoughts and in a way helps with reviewing how I’m doing.
The key to any good GTD system is the system itself, It needs to be simple, quick to use and most importantly reliable. Over the past year I have been using Omnifocus and although the software is very good with many useful features. The fact it only works on Apple products has become a issue. Sure, I’m a true Apple fan, I have a MacBook, iPhone, iPad so the system works great in the personal environment. The problem comes at Work, being a Windows environment and that has been the sticking point. I don’t have an easy way to access my system, OmniFocus, on my work computer. Yes I can access my next actions via my iPhone and I can email next actions into the system, but that seems to add a layer that is just to much. A good system has to be seamless, working for you and not you working it!
To that end I’m now in the middle of finding a new system.
