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New twitter, friendfeed and BBP friend, Rahsheen Porter, has begun a new series on his blog, SheenOnline, detailing his usage of Remember the Milk (RTM) for his GTD system. It all began when I posted a link in the GTD FriendFeed room to a great post on the RTM blog titled Advanced GTD with Remember the Milk written by Doug Ireton. It is a well thought out system using just RTM.
For some of you that are more hardcore Jott users than I am, this might be old news. But this morning I discovered that Jott now allows you to set up a reminder over the phone. Really a cool new feature.
This will probably make me a more frequent user of Jott. I am one that is highly dependent on reminders to keep me on track. This feature will certainly enhance the value of the tool for me.
If you are not using Jott, let me recommend it. It is a great tool to help you “toss” items into your inbox…when you are not near your capture tools.
After reading Leo of Zen Habit’s article last Friday at Web Worker Daily, I decided to post about how I am keeping my Gmail clean and slim.
Since I got my Macbook Pro in March ‘07, I have been POPing [1] my Gmail off of the server and using Gmail itself as my online mail archive. I have setup a LOT of filters and tweaked settings so that I can keep a clean inbox and an archive structure that makes it relatively easy to purge unwanted mails.
I was greatly saddened when I learned yesterday that Vitalist has unwisely changed their pricing structure. I had heard about it on another blog (whose name escapes me). So I went to the Vitalist blog, The Net Effect, and read the article detailing the changes.
I was shocked at what I was reading. Basically, the free accounts will let you have 5 contacts/contexts/projects. This is outrageous. You can upgrade to $5/month (Basic) and get 25 + 250MB of storage, and even further to $10/month (Premium) and get unlimited with 1GB of storage. It seems that they have adapted the Nozbe pricing structure, and that was one of the biggest turn off for me earlier this year.
Today, in the BBP Reviews Corner, I will be looking at Vitalist.
Vitalist is an online list manager that subscribes to the GTD methodology.
But, Michael…they all do, what makes Vitalist different?
I am glad that you asked. Vitalist is different than many other applications in this space right now. I think that it is one of the best implementation that is available right now. It is not perfect, but it is jam packed with features with (at least) 4 more on the way.
Well, howdy to all of you Black Belt Productivity readers. This is the first in what is going to be a new feature here at BBP…the review of products that are geared toward people who practice GTD.
First up on the Cavalcade of Fun: the web app, Nozbe.
Nozbe touts itself as a ’simple and efficient web-based productivity system.’ At first glance, there is a lot of great things in Nozbe that I have not seen in other GTD web apps. But once you start looking further, you start to see noticeable limitation in the app that are really unacceptable.
As part of BBP’s acceptance to be interviewed (Michael’s and Jason’s) by Cranking Widgets, we required Mr. Widget, himself, to turn the tables and submit his answers to us. His blog is an excellent source for GTD and especially, del.icio.us stuff, which is how I came across it. His post inspired me to once again take up del.icio.us for my bookmarking needs.
Brett has come to be a good friend to both Jason and I. We all share so much in common with one another, even outside the realm of GTD Bloggers. We are all fathers of two kids (Brett’s second is on the way), and all of the kids are one boy and one girl.
After reading Brett’s GREAT article this morning, seeing how Jay’s wife loves iCommit, and in talking with my illustrious cohort, Jason, I think that there is going to be some serious systems rethinking in my future.
Like Brett, I just found Stikkit and signed up for it, as I do for almost every new web app. I agree with him that it is not ready for (GTD) prime time yet…but the magical Merlin may have something up his sleeve to push them in that direction. Though the writeup he did on 43Folders was very impressive. It looks to be a powerful app, and may very well be GTD worthy soon.