I am always looking for a better personal productivity methodology.  From Day-Timers to The 7 habits of Highly Effective People to todo lists and PDA’s (still have my Apple Newton!), so it is no surprise that I am constantly on the lookout for new techniques.

Right now, I am looking at Getting Things Done by David Allen.  It is an interesting system, in that he really doesn’t give you a system as much as a methodology.  He expects you to develop a record-keeping system that works for you.  I’m using an online planner system to do this called “Remember the Milk.”  I’m very impressed with it so far.  RTM is extremely flexible – almost too flexible.  I’ve reconfigured it about 4 times to get it to work how I want it to work.

What I like most is the combination of tags and smart lists.  Smart lists are basically stored searches,  but the UI treats them just as if they were lists.  So effectively, I can mix and match tags to create a very flexible system for organizing my work.  I haven’t decided if it is too flexible, but I have already organized and diced my work into about 30 different piles.  More on that when I get some time with it to see how it works.

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