Category: GTD

Getting yourself organised for SXSW 2010

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So the broad strokes are now in place. This weekend I booked my flights to Austin and South by Southwest 2010 (and added a few days in San Francisco and The Valley – get in touch if you want to ‘do coffee’); the hotel room was reserved as I left Austin last year (forward planning, got to love it); and the Platinum pass was sorted in November. Now it gets interesting though, because it’s time to plan out and organise my time at SXSW. More than any other conference, SXSW Interactive is incredibly busy, with multiple and concurrent official sessions

The Filofax Beauty Gift Pack

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Just before Christmas the Filofax team let me have a look at their latest addition to their range – the Filofax Beauty Gift Pack. Following on from their first adventures in ‘bundling’ with the Lifestyle Packs, I wondered if they would continue this line of thinking and create more appropriate bundles. The Beauty Gift pack is the next step. Sporting a personal sized Domino Filofax; a filofax page sized mirror, and a ‘James Bond’ pen with a perfume atomiser hidden in the cap for a quick spray during the day; it’s clear that this pack is aimed at a certain

A Little Bit of GTD Tech For The Weekend?

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Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted an article that talks about how I use GTD with the modern S60 smartphone. This was a question I was asked thanks to the 5800 video diary series that is now addressed in a full article. The short answer is, I don’t. The S60 derived phones have an absolutely hopeless To-Do/List system in the calendaring application, and the regular calendar/agenda functions are poor at best. As readers here (and party go-ers in SXSW) will know, I’m a big Filofax fan. It’s disappointing when paper and pencil outgun silicon, and it’s made even more

No Bankrupcy Required – Gmail Inbox Cleared

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Just one of those little things, but a solid hour tonight cleared / archived / deleted / dealt with all my outstanding email. If you;re expecting something from me, then either I’ve just replied, or you’ve been added to the To-Do list in my Filofax (yes, me! Paper! More on that later), or you’ve been nuked as I slipped in my ruthless purge. So feel free to email me back.