Many thanks for your lovely, thought provoking email.
Unfortunately, I am currently on annual leave (although I couldn't resist the temptation to check my work email when the wife wasn't looking tonight).
I will reply to your email on my return on Monday 30 October.
Well, actually I won't. If it was sent to a mailing list, I will probably skip it but may dig it out from the archives in a few months when I am onsite desperately looking for a solution to the identical problem.
If your communication was spam then, I regret to inform you that, your kind offer of a 16" penis didn't get past the corporate spam barrier. Hard to believe but it's true, three and a half years and a single (yes, count them - one) spam email has reached my Inbox.
Alternatively, if your email matches one of my filters, then your amusing joke about The Killers new LP, MUFC or that unfortunate incident in the pub last Thursday will be ignored (for now).
If your email is work related and directed to me personally, then it will either be acted upon (if it takes less than 2 minutes), delegated (problematic as no-one is stupid enough to report to me) or deferred for action at some point in the future (honest).
And if you were the idiot who inadvertently called me to enquire about my availability during my brief chance to forget all about work and spend quality time with my family, I gave your name, mobile number and address to my wife.
Everything was in its
place. Then I went and changed
everything (again). My therapist says this is a character defect and a sign of subliminal procrastination.
Hard reset Palm Pilot. Download Thunderbird
extension to sync address book. Doesn't work.
So now my Contacts are in Thunderbird (periodic manual export/import) and I am using the Palm for Calendar and Tasks. If it's good enough for Dave Allen, then it's good enough for me.
Next Action: Wait for Thunderbird/Sunbird to fully support Palm synchronisation.
That's it. Enough procrastination. Finished.
I will use Microsoft
Outlook to manage my email, contacts, tasks and calendar at work.
I will store work related and personal data in the same repository.
I will not store any data on a Web based service.
I will use
Beyond Contacts (from
DataViz) to synchronise my contacts, tasks and calendar to my aging but perfectly adequate monochrome
Palm Vx.
I will either use old fashioned paper and cheap biros from leading hotel chains (I would only lose an expensive
moleskin and fountain
pen) or the Palm to capture stuff when I am at home, in transit, in a hostelry or away from my work computer.
I may also send emails to myself from my home computer to work.
I will manually manage my address book on my Nokia phone. This is more work for me but absolutely necessary because I dislike the Nokia
PC Suite program so intensely.
I will capture my personal finances in
Microsoft Money.
I will continue to use
TiddlyWiki (in preference to
OneNote and
EverNote) to capture personal notes, jottings and information mainly because I like the sound of 'reusable non-linear personal web notebook' and it fits on a memory stick.
I will continue to keep
Joomla in my thoughts.
I will no longer mock my wife for keeping lots of lists; 'The only thing you need now is a list telling you where all your lists are'.
When you find typos in Dave Allen's 'Getting Thing Done' book, it's a little deflating.
Your mind which was starting to feel like smooth, unrippled water, becomes more like a dripping tap.
Why, I haven't felt like this since I discovered Paul McKenna is losing all his hair despite the power of mind over matter.
p46. 'At at' -> 'And at'
p49. 'intution' -> 'intuition'
Any may your God go with you.
I have been thinking (yes I do a lot of that) recently about managing my personal calendar more effectively. Ideally, I would like a simple Web based calendar that could also sync to my Palm.
I don't really like the Yahoo!
Calendar that much even though it can sync with Outlook and the Palm. I simply don't enjoy looking at the Yahoo! calendar. I just think the interface is ugly and there are distracting ads liberally scattered at the top of the screen.
I am following the development of
Sunbird with interest but this project is still in development and I think Sunbird only runs locally.
I have an outstanding, low priority ToDo to evaluate
Remember The Milk but keep forgetting.
So, I was interested to read
Matt Mullenweg speaking in glowing
terms about the calendar functionality from
30 Boxes rapidly followed by similar sentiments from
Scobleizer.
Mental note. Forego 'Songs of Praise' for just one week and remember to sign up at
30 Boxes on Sunday 5 February when it enters public beta.
In fact, add it to your calendar with an SMS alert so you don't forget.