How to Make Your To-Do List Doable. Mark Zuckerberg enters the office with launch of 'Facebook At Work' pilot. Simple GTD® with Apple’s Reminders App. If you aspire to get a little more organised in 2013 you are short of excuses since that does not necessarily involve buying, installing, learning and setting up a productivity black belt application such as OmniFocus. Technically all you really need is pen and paper. For the technical more savvy there is the Reminders stock app on your Mac and iOS devices that gets you what you need to start. While Reminders is in general a rather simple task or list management application, it offers some features that a number of apps for which you would have to put money down lack: Synchronisation across all your Apple devices via iCloudLocation-based remindersSharing lists with others (like errands with your spouse) via iCloudRepeating tasks/reminders Overall, managing your obligations and commitments in life is more than doable using Reminders.
Setting Reminders up for GTD® This will take you less than 10 minutes. For many this setup is actually extremely effective. A few more recommendation.
Awareness. Sns. When is Good. It’s Time To Hide The Noise. A few days ago, Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur (@Loic) sent out a retweet with a link to a screenshot of his CTO’s Seesmic Web client showing 1,200 Tweets across nearly 20 columns. The joke was that his CTO was trying to achieve a “world record” for how many Tweets could be loaded up into a Twitter client at one time.
(It’s not a world record. Competitor TweetDeck can display an unlimited number of Tweets and columns as well). If you click on the screenshot and pan across the enlarged version of it, there you’ll find a dialog box with Loic’s old avatar doing a hang-10 while kite surfing. The image reminded me of another screenshot (see below, click to enlarge) that I once took of an earlier Twitter client called Twhirl, which Seesmic bought before developing its current product. This highlights a bigger problem with the Web today.
It’s 18 months later and the problem hasn’t been solved. This is not to say that there hasn’t been considerable progress in stream readers since that time. McKinsey report: Enterprise Web 2.0 adoption still growing - Net. CIO - A new McKinsey report found that many companies have adopted Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networks and mashups during the past year, with companies on average adding three Web 2.0 tools to their companies technology offerings. But most companies remain on the fence about whether or not they're happy with the new tools pervading their technology diets. Only 21 percent voiced overall satisfaction, according to the report, and 22 percent cited clear dissatisfaction. The poll was conducted with 1,988 executives in June 2008 at enterprises located all around the world.
The adoption by those companies of most Web 2.0 technologies has risen since the poll was conducted for the first time last year, according to the report. For instance, blogs are being adopted by 34 percent of companies, compared to 21 percent in the previous year. But the outlook for increased Web 2.0 adoption has begun to hit some barriers, the report contended.