Manage its tasks with a simple file text

August 19, 2010 GTD, Methods, Organize itself, productivity

A simple file text todo.txt I have the habit on this blog to present software that optimize the personal productivity. But in the matter of the management of the things to do, even if it arrived me here or there To present specialized software, I admits that I did not again find better than d’utiliser a simple file text.

A file text stripped of any curlicue allows concentrating on the action. With this format, we did not impede by any heavy, just software a small editor of basal text. Being given that to write on a file text has nothing of playful one, we not not did more attempt to optimize to day length the tasks instead of working. We touch on the essential one and anything else.

I propose you in this item to discuss the advantages and inconveniences of this solution, and I will profit from it to explain how I use it daily to organize my clean tasks�

Advantages and inconveniences

Let's see first the major advantages of a list of things to do stocked in a file text:

Simplicity : to manage a thing list to do to the format text is within reach of everyone. It suffices of a simple editor of text as the desk pad of Windows, to know also the vouchers shorten keyboard to do the copies to stick. And it is good, one is ready to start up!
Rapidity : to handle a file text can be done with very light software, that react to the quarter of turn. Indeed, we limited only by strike speed. And performances do not deteriorate with the number of stocked data. This rapidity is pleasant for she allows that our acts are in keeping with the wave of our thought.
Compatibility : the format text basal is used practically since the beginning of the history of data processing. As much to say that it is completely "future proof" : in 10 years, we will be able to use exactly the same format if the heart is said some.
Flexibility : with a file text, one can organize the data of the manner that pleases us, instead of the manner in which software foresaw it. It is thus easier to personalize the data to our needs.
Transportable : one easily can copy a file text on a key USB, and to open it next on any computer.

On the other hand, the major inconvenience of the format text is his structure lack. It in results these some désagréments:

no prioritized categories
impossible to obtain several views, for example it would be practical of show only the next task to carry out of every project
impossible to automate manipulations of data or treatments of mass
impossible to create reports or go out of statistics

Nevertheless, I think that one can happen of most of these advanced functions, and become more effective while betting on simplicity.

The format

I use personally a format of type diary, with dated sections, as follows:

———————————–

VEN 20 AOU 2010
============
tâche1
tâche2
tâche3

———————————–

GAME 19 AOU 2010
============
tâche1
tâche2
tâche3

———————————–

Yes, this is as simple as that! In this format, there is not notion of context as recommends it the system GTD. But I use two lists according to the place where I am located: the first one is reserved to my work place (todo-work one. txt), and the other to the personal tasks (todo-perso one. txt). For the races, if I really must note them I write the all on paper or slate-gray (not need of a system hi-tech for that ).

Usually, I create the section of the try the day in the morning same, at the time of my morning ritual. I there copy the unfinished tasks of the day before, and the foreseen tasks of long figuring date in my diary paper. Nevertheless it arrives me also to prepare the section of the day during the preceding days, when I can plan my tasks in advance. But if the date too is advanced in the time, I note the all in my diary paper.

Know as as I chose to preserve the historic one of all the tasks as I note. That is to say that I never eliminate my tasks, I puts just an "ok" side issue to indicate that this is finished. To my direction this is a crucial point, since the historic of the tasks has several usefulnesses:

think stupid : to the work, I have loguer my tasks in the software of management of project of my business (for those that know, this is software Redmine). I use therefore my file todo-work one. txt to remind of me the tasks that I finished during the day in order to be able to return them in the system the next day morning (for evenings, I especially am pressed to return at my place ).
Motivation : to archive the try dated manner is a good manner to say itself that one advances in our work. Our spirit is happy for it sees that one finishes every day several tasks.
Safeguard : I always was anxious to the idea to eliminate the finished tasks, or tasks that no longer are current. One never knows, maybe that information would be useful later. Preserve the old ones try manner historisée allows me to persuade me that I forget nothing, and therefore to have the quiet spirit.

You will have noticed that I did not again talk about the tasks in incubation. The tasks in incubation are the non programmed tasks. One wishes simply to carry out them a day in the future, but one knows not when and this n’est not certain. Let's see that of more near�

The tasks in incubation

For the tasks in incubation, that by definition are not dated, there are two approaches:

1. To place them at first or in end of the file : if is a comparatively urgent task, she will go at first file, in a section without date. Thus, one is brought to read it several times in the day, which helps to take conscience qu’on should treat it sooner or later. It is necessary nevertheless to watch to not too to fill the beginning of the file. Otherwise one risks feeling submerged by a too big number of tasks.

If the tasks are less urgent, one also can seize them all at the bottom of the file, while classifying them eventually by project. But it is necessary then to watch to consult this list to uniform intervals to be sure that the tasks will not fall in forgetfulness.

2. To place them in a personal newspaper: I often evoked the kind deeds to maintain a personal newspaper. For me, a personal newspaper is well more than the inventory of the things that happen every day. I uses it especially receptacle to welcome all my daily ideas. This is the reason why I am brought to there to note many task ideas to accomplish in the future, a day, maybe�

A good example, this are the item ideas to publish on THIS FLASH. In truth, before writing an item, I often already had two or three ideas of items. But I deepened finally the idea that inspires me the more. And it is only this idea of item that will be converted in task. One sees well here the notion of incubation. Certain tasks must ripen little by little in my personal newspaper before I decide to put them in practice.

I do not stock my personal newspaper in a simple file text, but rather in what one calls an outliner (in French: idéateur, and I do not hide you that I have just found this translation on wikipédia ). An outliner is a software that allows managing text in a file hierarchy. The one that I adopted is called EssentialPIM, And I use it everyday for three years. It executes himself very easily from my key USB.

I suppose that you will have understood that I use these two combined approaches.

Why not to use an outliner as lists things to do mistress?

Certain of maybe will have astonished you that I do not use the personal outliner of my newspaper as lists things to do mistress.

But three arguments themselves there oppose:

the slowness : the outliners are generally slower than of the editors all simple ones as the notepad of Windows
complexity : if i must reflect even some seconds for knowledge in which file I must arrange such or such tries, this is usually sufficient to break the wave of my concentration on my work
The temptation : to have several onglets to reach of taking click to other files of text is a temptation that I prefer to avoid. When one works on difficult tasks, our attention very easily can diverge. More better is worth not to give itself ideas of excuses in order not to work.

Here, you now should have an idea does more specify of my environment of work to basis of files text. I pass you at present the word in the commentaries. Do not hesitate do us a return about your own system of organization, notably which helps you the better to cut down your work of the day .

Words keys:project management, management of the time, GTD, try, todo list

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33 commentaries"

Sébastien said,

Wrote one August 19, 2010 @ 22:52

Interesting!
J’ai for my party (at last) successful to find a system of management of tasks from files "mindmaps", that bypass certain of the quoted inconveniences in l’article (context, possibility to mask tasks, …).
L’inconvénient is a least portability, but that remains anecdotic for me for j’utilise:
- freemind on my work posts
- freemind "movable" on my movable telephone
The files are synchronized between them through active-sync + dropbox.
Very practical to the final one!
fraZck said,

Wrote one August 20, 2010 @ 8:51

Interesting item! L’idée file text m’a pleased equally but I n’avais not found how to note my tasks. C’est thing done thanks to your presentation.
Sébastien said,

Wrote one August 20, 2010 @ 12:32

J’ai a long time tried the file text: not mutualisable, not sexy…

J’aime there to have access the whole time, as my emails and my diary. 2 solutions to mix todo-list, emails and diary:
- an account google
- Netvibes.
ProLire said,

Wrote one August 20, 2010 @ 13:04

Interesting your method. Thank you for the discovery d’EPIM. That has l’air well for any manager in his cléUSB. It remains me just to check if that works under Linux.
The big question, c’est how to check its tasks lorsqu’on n’est not in front of a screen?? C’est it not at all that puts me the more of problem currently, c’est for that that I maintenances of the literal lists, on paper.
Grégory said,

Wrote one August 20, 2010 @ 16:11

Thank you for to divide with us your method.

As Sébastien, to have tried, I find that that n’est not very sexy, that that lacks functionalities.

D’un other quoted, functionalities, c’est you that the does! And the simplicity of l’outil allows concentrating on l’essentiel: to manage your spots and effective.

What of time I was able to lose to tuner to the better je-ne-sais-plus-quel-outil, or play with all these options.
Farah said,

Wrote one August 20, 2010 @ 21:36

Hello,
First your blog is very and interressant very well written And I am this blog since some months already. A single word to note: cheer! All is concise and simple.
On the other hand for l’organisation spots the technology remains in decline facing the pen paper (kind small notebook) Even if the view d’ensemble n’est not really to the top. I find that the todos on iPod touch or any portable other are slowed down by l’écriture but good each has its advantages and its defects… I n’ai not again found my happiness but it delays me d’essayer this method.
Good continuation
S9700 said,

Wrote one August 21, 2010 @ 1:39

Very good item.
I work equally with a file text (or word/ openoffice) and that treats Pro one and the Personnel.
The actions are listed in l order or they present themselves (this maybe different one).
For each, I look for according to the case:
- the 1ERE or next action has to do
- what blocks or which j awaits and of that
- …
To every action I put myself therefore questions….

I do not keep the actions treated or l’historique (heavy, interet the come moment) and l’objectif is of "to empty" this list.
Besides, if an action takes less than 2 mn (GTD), I treat it plutot that to put it in a list.

The file is on my legible telephone as a key usb since a PC. J have therefore 2 possible accesses to the file.

J’utilise this simple approach, after implementing GTD under excel or d’autres tools (minp). L’approche of Robert Maurer on the Kaizen m a lot helped as well as the one of Leo Babauta, his excellent blog and his book.

Thank you for your excellent blog.
paletuvier said,

Wrote one August 21, 2010 @ 6:34

J’utilise me also l’outliner EssemtialPIM since already a long time. J’en tried full and c’est the one there that I prefer. It is filled with quotations, date, various newspapers to crack and j’ai tendency when I l’utilise to do the butterfly. Therefore, lorsqu’une idea or a task to do comes me to l’esprit, j’ouvre ale desk pad that is quick, simple and reliable. If j’ai next something to keep, I do then a simple one to copy to stick d’un programs to l’autre.
ChrisToonet said,

Wrote one August 21, 2010 @ 10:13

Hello! A new time one report that l’idéal in this domain n’existe not ("not again")! J’ai also tried several solutions: EssentialPIM but in free one cannot choose the contexts, Tudumo: after 3 days j’ai had a message: "Your length d’essai of 60 days is exhausted" (the gap schedule doubtless!!), a little complex MyLifeOrganized, Kplan but not again rather complete, tbGTD (tiddlywiki) a little too complete (I created myself mine simpler), brief there is l’avenir for the programming amateurs!! The solution txt works if one n’a not a very complex activity.
S9700 said,

Wrote one August 21, 2010 @ 10:53

J have a complex activity and c is the extremist-simple solution that returns me the better service.
In the practice, j chose my tool (file text on blackberry and therefore legible of the PC) and my methode in privilegiant simplicity and facilitated d’utilisation.
The tools are constraining. I put has day on the BB or since the PC and if j have a lot of modifs or change I do it through the PC.
To the final one and to l’usage, I work well as that. There is little d’oubli and the things advance (c is the goal!).
J will like to have views by activity or advancements but this would be at the detriment of l usage current.
kamel said,

Wrote one August 21, 2010 @ 23:47

Hello,

I think that this a little is surpassed.
The big defect of this type d’outils is the sync and his access.
Personally I set up a complete administrator with gmail, google contact and google diary inspired of GTD and Covey.
First of all for the collection: it is very simple one can send oneself a mall to oneself without counting malls qu’on receives that are big generator of spots. For example on iphone with the application notes or photo there is the function sends mall therefore it suffices to put our address and all goes in the inbox of gmail.
The taken grade on computer is easy it suffices to be done a mall and to put in object stains it. One also can use a short cut keyboard of creation of mall.
I set up a system of label 1) the contexts with context list for the éxécution of the spot (call, computer, house, office etc�) 2) the statuses that is to say the dégres of urgency and of importance = urgent important, not urgent important, not not urgent important, not urgent important, in expectation (of a response) and accomplished 3) the projects 4) The references 5) lists months of the year in order to have a billbook.
D’autre leaves there is a shrewdness on gmail to prioritize the labels they suffices for example for the contexts to create the following label C/_context next when you will create a label context it suffices to type C/CALLS for example and the result and that these labels will place themselves under the C/-context as for a file system. One similar fact with the statuses (S/_status), the references etc…
One can with gmail to leave to post the made out of his choice

For the followed it is great for with a mall one has the card contact available (straight click on the mall of the contact) and the possibility to create an event diary while using the foward to oneself and while clicking on "invitation" you have a small unit of creation of event complet.Dans noted them event one can stick the address html of mall and thus if one goes through calendar one Can rediscover mall and the data contact immediately.
Calendar is used exclusively for the telephone and physical rdv precise
For the projects one can create a mall and to safeguard it in untidy but of course with a made out one and one obtains a document where one can grapple infos of the web and join files. All that while knowing in which context one must do it and his degrees of importance.

This is a not very heavy to set up at first but next c’est fearsome.

Cordially,
s9700 said,

Wrote one August 22, 2010 @ 1:11

Decidement, vast subject.

There visibly are 2 Schools:
- The one of simplicity and minimalisme that j’ai now adopted despite a load of important work and varied trés that necessitates reactivité and harshness.
- The one of the management of the more classical time such as the presente Kamel (I do not speak any l’utilisation d’une @ mall dediée).

To have a lot experimenté these methodes, I preserve aujourd’hui only which is extremist-somple:
- the text
- L’action on which one reflechit: 1ERE thing has to do, this qu one awaits, what blocks this qu one does not know, or?
- no curlicue
- not d’historique
As I the disai precedemment, j’ai withheld of the differentes "Schools" which survives daily practice and periodes of anxiety or most of the methodes fly in eclat.
J’ai therefore preserved the minimum with the brought reflexion has every action; one of the added values is surement it.

Classifications U, I, UI … or other hold not very a long time.

J’en comes back to l’approche of L Babauta: to empty, arrange, sort, throw, …

Veiled or j’en am. Ca can evoluer, but too artificial and not held ca more … to the Newspaper.

To the final one, some questions:
- Do how long use we a "method"?
- Does there have t’il spleens or passages without management of the time?
- The adapted management brings t’elle an anxiety or on the contrary the reduces she?
- Sees one the things to advance?
- The time to manage is it weak?
- Does the management of the actions induce she a reflexion on what when how for that and options (cf demarche quality and compromise analysis)?
- L’ameliorons we in permanence?
- Allows she an action immediate (notes, action, …) in order to relieve our brain?
- L’on passes more time has to fill with the lists qu’a to act and especially the list changes t’elle a lot?

Thank you for all these commentaries on C’eclair” that allow us to divide our manners to do.

Good evening
MaxR of Maxadi said,

Wrote one August 23, 2010 @ 4:58

J’utilise me also the simple file text to list the different tasks to do for the next day. I do it in evening typically.

On the other hand j’évite d’en done more or too complex, for that would become too quickly chronophage.

Indeed, j’utilise the desk pad of Windows to the place d’un papier+stylo. But the two are worth themselves … to not condition to lose the paper.
Jérôme said,

Wrote one August 23, 2010 @ 6:50

Very interesting item
Just as Farah and Prolire, I list my tasks on paper for transportable everywhere (been able j’ai to reflect to items on my blog in the bush of Madagascar for example thanks to my notebook).
S9700 said,

Wrote one August 23, 2010 @ 13:25

J used the paper or rather the notebooks Moles….
My feedback:
- lists that s’allonge …
- even if one blocks, ca becomes heavy
- the notebook or the paper ca loses itself
- and then, c’est 2 or 3 notebooks …
J’en am therefore come to the accessible file since my BB and since my PC, but not since the web.
In the matter of, the spots:
- When j’utilisai a notebook, I reprenai periodically the non treated spots (why, …), I blocked them and I put back them has the end of the list.
- I believe that c’est for that (weighs down but obliges has to traverse), that j adopted the file text or word.

I reassure you, If I am at the telephone or occupied or does not envy d’appuyer on tocuhes or if I walk, I take a paper and j’écris.
It m’arrive also to remake the list "has to do" on paper – c’est very interesting as exercise – and to put has day my file next.
Argancel said,

Wrote one August 23, 2010 @ 21:56

Hello everyone. Happy to see that the discussion is so rich. C’est very longer than l’article

@Sébastien: thank you for your return on freemind. I did not know qu’il there had now a version for movable. On Windows, I found it a not very heavy one to launch itself.
Perso I n’utilise not Freemind as todo lists principal because of the 3 last points that j’ai mentioned in l’article: slowness, complexity and temptation to pretend to work. But j’admet that c’est an average voucher to take notes.

@FraZck: delighted that l’article t’inspires! It will be necessary to put that in place now.

@Sébastien: why not to try to stock the file text on key USB? You l’aurais then always with you, as long as you have access to a computer.

@ProLire: unfortunately essentialPIM n’est dispo that for it seem to me Windows…
And for the movements, I n’ai not not more of solution miracle. N’étant not too fan(encore?) artificial telephones, I note all on paper at that very moment.

@Are Grégory: ah you also you player? lol But when one wants really to advance, c’est true qu’il is more better to do in simplicity

@Farah: thank you for the compliment. C’est true that me not more I n’aime not too to write on a movable telephone, d’autant that mine is really rudimentary. Therefore for me also c’est paper and pen outside of l’ordi.

@S9700: c’est true that the Black Berry has a keyboard a little more comfortable qu’un telephones conventional. But my problem, c’est that j’ai tendency to lose my telephones. Maybe qu’il would be necessary that j’attende the black berry disposable lol

@Paletuvier: one uses therefore the same tools, c’est comic that!

@Christoonet: I see that S9700 replied to your commentary. I could say you the same thing. My activity is rather complex puisqu’en more of my tasks, I must manage the try l’équipe that I manage. On the other hand to my work we have an administrator of project that facilitates ourselves a little the task.

@Kamel: thank you for the description of your system. One can say qu’il is artificial!
For the sync of the file text, you can is to stock the in line with file an account Dropbox or even a service online all simple one as MyTextFile.com, Or well to stock on the key USB.
At the level of l’email, in my corporation one uses software email collaborative Zimbra, that is effective for things as to program a meeting.
On the other hand, I am not too d’accord that this be a good system of grade take. Normally an email n’est not éditable. Now lorsqu’on takes notes, one very much likes to modify them progressively.
On Gmail, j’utilisais also made out them context as you describe. But to the end d’un moment, j’ai found that too complex to maintain. And henceforth I unravel myself simply thanks to the filters and while noting the important emails thanks to the small star.

@S9700:
This are interesting questions, here which would be my responses:
-The files texts of things to do, I the uniformly used air, but that does only since at the beginning of April that I the historise such as describes in l’article.
-I think effectively that l’on can have passages without management of the tasks, especially lorsqu’on needs to relax.
-For my party, the bell d’alarme comes when I am interrupted by my colleagues. It is necessary for me then a file text to remind of me the true order of treatment of my tasks, based on their priority and not on l’émotion qu’ils evoke to my eyes.
-To see the things to advance: effectively when you historises your tasks, one sees the things to advance, and c’est very encouraging!
-The time to manage is it weak? there over the file text s’y ready wonderfully effectively. In fact I think qu’il is necessary to find a balance, the just environment that allows d’avoir the clear ideas, without for as much to sink in the perfectionnisme
-j’admet qu’il is necessary time in time to have a reflection time to crop the tasks, to see if they are déléguables, and which are the one that no longer are d’actualité
- l’ameliorons we in permanence? j’espère!
- Allows she an action immediate (notes, action, �) in order to relieve our brain? well c’est which j’aime the more with the file text. C’est as a plug to relieve the lacking RAM of our brain lol
- Does one pass more time has to fill with the lists that has to act and especially the list changes t’elle a lot? I think that l’aspect épuré of the file text limit in fact the time of management of the list by his simplicity. At my place, c’est especially the top and the bottom that change a lot, since the remainder is occupied by l’historique!

@MaxR: I see that you chose also a minimalist option! Me also I fill sometimes evenings, that depends a little the courage that j’ai before to go to bed me.

@Jérôme: hehe, exactly, j’avais also a notebook when j’étais as you in the bush of Madagascar. In that case, necessarily, l’iPhone or the black berry are a lot less useful ones!

@S9700: I will add again that l’option paper and pen, c’est nonetheless a lot less pretty and legible qu’un file text lorsqu’on writes poorly as me
Aurelien said,

Wrote one August 23, 2010 @ 22:19

Ca done almost 3 years that j’utilise a simple file text on the office of my computer to note the tasks to do and j’en am very happy.
S9700 said,

Wrote one August 24, 2010 @ 0:33

Thank you Argancel for your attentive relecture.
Several remarks:
- I am as you on a file text editable of the PC (BB in method cle USB) or Blackberry since his keyboard. When c’est simple and that the PC is eteint: BB and when c&or lit PC: PC.
The support is a cle USB accessible since the PC or integré to the BB.
- I am interested by your historic one: how you manage it, which some is l’utilité for you, … (1)
- Bell d’alarme when there is interruption by your collegues. The file txt is then "the beacon", the means of not to lose his cape. How were some quiet arrived the? C’est interesting. (2)
- When I talk about reflexion, I want to say that face has every action, I ask myself a question: that it is necessary to do to advance, that lacks t’il, … Ca m’evite to list actions that n’avanceront never (cf PCAF of GTD and small no R Maurer.
- I divide your opinion on l’aspect epuré. Indeed, l’esprit thing is d’epurer, to sort, to throw …. a list that well on always fills and that l’on tries to empty in permanence.
- "At my place, it is especially the top and the bottom that change a lot, since the remainder is occupied by the historic one!" : That do you want to say? (3)
Thank you for this post that generates a lot d’échanges, of reflexion on "how I do in this moment" and how do the others.
Denis said,

Wrote one August 24, 2010 @ 9:07

Slt,

J’adore; a good return towards simple elements, while the tendency goes towards the complex.

For my party, I find l’usage. txt and Usb a little in function lack that seems me important, as link with diary for example, or management d’échéance…

But also the fact to attain more quickly to the list.

For my party j’utilise since some months the functions of try Google.

One little l’avoir is alone, is in at the same time that l’on consults its emails (Gmail), is at the same time that the consults are Diary Google.

Of more, on my Iphone j’ai created the button Google Todo, that allows me d’y to attain immediately.

All is therefore synchro.

In terms of functions c’est for me l’idéal.

Very simple, no curlicues (the return to simplicity/effectiveness), but essential élèments:

- the collection, that allows structuring
- of the "under tasks"
- the management of date back to maturity date
- the direct liaison with l’agenda (for a usage Diary google) …

Brief that of the happiness
docG said,

Wrote one August 24, 2010 @ 10:01

Simplicity and complementarity

for my party
two files texts desk pad Windows
- pro
- perso

c’est easy, c’est practices, but ca remains impersonal

and my diary moleskine black (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Moleskine_ruled_notebook,_inside_view.jpg)qui is my life notebook that serves me to note evenings
the 3 things that I am to trust d’avoir done in the day

c’est supple, c’est sensual, c’est perso

has +
loic said,

Wrote one August 24, 2010 @ 16:20

all an item to explain how to write spots on an end of paper or a file txt…
Pffioou! you have time to lose.
Jon said,

Wrote one August 24, 2010 @ 16:30

Can Euh.. t’aurais not a template of file text virgin for that I begin?
Web Marketing Junkie said,

Wrote one August 24, 2010 @ 17:05

C’est funny, I have just returned also to the file text last week, after working with of multiples applis GTD more or less complex.

My file TODO is synchronized between my computers and my telephone thanks to Dropbox.

C’est often which is the simplest one that works the better!
S9700 said,

Wrote one August 24, 2010 @ 19:13

My dear Loic,
If you look at well the exchanges, it was a lot question of the manner to do, of what is important, … The reflexion goes a lot further. L’aspect txt is the support.
ProLire said,

Wrote one August 24, 2010 @ 20:28

@Argencel: yes, j’ai noticed after posting the commentary. Suddenly, I n’ai done not too make a will. But I takes notes of this type of software to do a more pushed research.
DeliXianne said,

Wrote one August 25, 2010 @ 23:33

Perso, j’utilise the posts-it.
Ca walks well … when they do not take off themselves and fall behind a furnishing!
Julian said,

Wrote one August 26, 2010 @ 0:04

J’utilisais a file text there is again little time, but I must had m’etre left to seduce by an available application on iphone that peermet of gerer its lists simply and to transport them everywhere with me. J’avais a too faceuse tendace has to pass the flying leaves of paper has the machine to wash with my John! Item tres interessant! Thank you
kamel said,

Wrote one August 26, 2010 @ 0:47

Good evening,

I go m’essayer to the forecast. I consider the typical webmail gmail as the future and it no departure d’une centralization of all our data entering or in treatment course. In fact the borders between mall (under form html), the reader flow rss, google voice, google wave, the vocal or written grades, the calls, the taches,les events of l’agenda, l’échéancier, the project management, the management of the contacts and the documents web (divided or not) go s’estomper. I see all that in a single page and onglets. That will be coupled with a typical service dropbox by default (in l’attente d’un google more performance document) for the référencement of the files.
With a total search engine l’accès to the data becomes very performance
The profit is a total sync, a centralization of the collection through an inbox, an access on all the plateformes and a single environment of work.
To finish j’ajouterais the development of google voice with l’obtention d’un only number of telephone for all the lines with transfer towards the one of his choice, the possibility d’émettre calls as well as the sync of the sms and voicemail (that can be transcribed). It is available for l’instant qu’aux WORE and benefits from very good echos.

Cordially,
S9700 said,

Wrote one August 26, 2010 @ 12:53

C is well all these innovations that facilitate the Newspaper.
In practice, one there can lose a lot of times, drowned etre under the mass d information and lose view l essential.
Jupiter said,

Wrote one August 28, 2010 @ 18:25

Hello, thank you for your very interesting item. For my party after using fichiers.txt since a long time for reasons of compatibility that I synchronized recently with dropbox I came back to the paper… And specially to the Filofax. I known myself realize that I lost time bcp with software that this be omnifocus or other. Finally one can do a little his method easily and nothing is worth a good leaf of paper and a bic. J’ai differentes sections. J’ai done an item on my blog to this subject if you want to see it here the link… http://gtdway.blogspot.com/
J’aimerais to be able to replace my solution by an Ipad and a global solution but I note apres 5 years of GTD and 2 years d’autofocus that the paper and simplicity are the better guarantors of l’efficacité professional. One always complicates too the things.
Olive tree FAURAX said,

Wrote one August 29, 2010 @ 20:03

J’arrive a shortly after the battle, grieved.

J’ai tested the post-its one, c’est the misery as early as qu’on some piles up enough and the most urgent one climbs back up not all alone on the battery

J’ai tested the file text all simple one, but there also, one passes his life to do the copy/stick and it is not possible sort/look for efficiently.

Since, j’ai discover http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ And c’est humorously practices (j’ai always an onglet open with).

It is possible to return a task with a date, words keys, etc. great easily.
That encourages equally to do 1 task == 1 message and to describe the in a manner concise task (even if one can do long).

And next, one can do the intelligent lists, for example to select the tasks with the word key "quick" of which dates it d’échéance is in next week….
An advantage also, c’est qu’on easily can pass a try "idea" to "urgent" or "a day can be".

After, there are short cuts keyboards for l’interface web and an API that allows d’utiliser RTM since full d’applis, etc.

L’autre option that j’ai discover afterward, c’est the org-mode d’emacs, but it is necessary to couple it with Dropbox for always l’avoir dispo with oneself…. and to like Emacs. To see.
Christophe O'CLOCK. said,

Wrote one September 5, 2010 @ 21:35

I add the precious short cut F5, for the files. txt of Windows.

This short cut allows d’y to register the date back to the day.

Very practical especially for l’organisation of l’information.

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Argancel said,

Wrote one September 6, 2010 @ 17:30

Thank you for your numerous returns! I go back over this conversation after some times d’absence.

Here my responses to your questions:

@Aurélien: 3 years! Ca done a lease, you n’as summer never attempted by d’autres systems since all this time? Me I n’ai not been able m’en to prevent. At last maybe that you have reason if c’est to return as me to the solution more simple

@S9700:
-In fact my historic one is rather simple. While j’ajoute of new tasks to the summit of the list, the tasks s’enfoncent towards the bottom. And I do not eliminate them.
Sometimes I do not copy certain non finished tasks d’un day to l’autre in order not to clutter too my list of the day, therefore these tasks tip progressively towards the bottom. And I leave to raise them as soon as my list of the day sufficiently is reduced.
-The file txt as reminder beacon, yes effectively: most of the time, I keep my tasks to l’esprit, but I cannot keep more than two or three tasks in my head. As soon as this figure increases I must absolutely note them and reprioriser in order to see which are the tasks more urgent (not prioriser according to l’envie moment, but a priority objectifies).
This confusion comes therefore also interruptions, c’est to say that if quelqu’un comes to disturb me while I am dived in quelquechose with sufficiently of plume, it can succeed diverting me of my flow. And therefore the fact d’avoir marked that on my list allows me to remind me that in does j’étais on quelquechose d’autre.
-effectively the babies steps are sometimes preferable to vague tasks that l’on n’a not well defined, and that necessitate therefore an effort
- "At my place, it is especially the top and the bottom that change a lot, since the remainder is occupied by the historic one!" : in does l’historique at my place changes a lot less than the top of the list (the try the day) and the bottom of the list (the tasks "a day maybe"), since c’est just when I sufficiently liberated myself that I come sometimes certain repécher non finished tasks

@Denis: c’est true that for the future tasks in the long term, I n’utilises not the file text but a system to party: a classical diary.

@Is docG: your system similar then? For the Moleskine, the problem c’est that you totally cannot loosen you, write very intimate things, for there always is the fear that quelqu’un consults it no?

@Loic: but c’est maybe time of win if that t’aide to better t’organiser no?

@Jon: Thank you for your interest for this sytème. Actually, if you want l’appliquer, you n’as not need of big thing of more qu’une lists dates separated by a line of traits d’union.

@Web Marketing Junkie: lol, maybe you can we to say some more then on the manner in which you manage your file txt?

@DeliXianne: ah yes the posts-its, sympa sometimes to remember d’une tries very urgent. But commme d’autres l’ont underlined, you do not can t’en to serve for all your tasks, that would do a piece of confetti mountain

@Julian: for l’iPhone if this solution suits you c’est perfect. For my party I see nonetheless several inconveniences: already you can lose it, therefore j’espère that you safeguard his content d’une manner or d’une other, and that the data are not too sensitive or well encrypted, and then the keyboard n’est not great practice. At last no system n’est perfect lol

@Kamel: ah yes, l’organiseur ideal, j’avais tried d’en to speak a little in this post: Will of what seem the organiseur of the future?. In practice, difficult to put everyone d’accord on a same plateforme. And I do not know even if c’est desirable. After the monopolies of Windows, Google, Facebook, a monopoly on l’organiseur? L’avenir we will say it!

@Jupiter: I think that that depends really of your environment of work. If you n’es not often on an ordi, at that very moment I understand that the paper is more effective. But me as j’utilise l’ordinateur really everyday to the work, and evenings for bloguer and work on my ancillary projects, the file. txt goes me better. D’autant that j’ai an atrocious writing!

@Olive tree FAURAX: About Remember The Milk, j’ai envies to say: yes d’accord c’est a tool web very noticeable. But already that necessitates d’aller in his navigator web. Therefore c’est the first step to diverge current work to be going to surf on the web:/
For the org-mode of emacs, j’ai desired to try, but Emacs is really a heavy software lorsqu’il n’est not préinstallé on your machine. Therefore finally j’ai abandoned this solution.

@Christophe O'CLOCK: thank you for the short cut! I did not know even. Damage qu’il n’inclue not the day of the week:/