{"id":295,"date":"2008-07-08T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T02:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/plan-101\/"},"modified":"2008-08-08T10:09:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:09:38","slug":"plan-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/plan-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you organize your life?  In the past I&#8217;ve entertained the thought that the important tasks rise to the top like cream, and there&#8217;s no reason to waste time shuffling todo lists when that time could otherwise be put to productive use &#8211; oh the irony!  There&#8217;s truth to that &#8211; you can&#8217;t be anal about every possible task you have.  But&#8230; I HAVE TOO MUCH I WANT TO DO.  I don&#8217;t want to be the jellyfish caught in the tide of life.  I am pretty good at &#8220;not catching the ball&#8221; when it&#8217;s not the right thing to do, but I want a system that helps me be laser-precise in applying my limited resources.  It just happens to be the time for that &#8220;sequence&#8221; in my life &#8211; no one is driven like a man in his 40&#8217;s.  The requirements of the perfect task planning system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>responsive, intuitive &#8211; i.e., FAST task-calendar flip<\/li>\n<li>quickly offload tasks from memory &#8211; i.e., available anywhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/chandlerproject.org\">Chandler<\/a> is the current champ, and I <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.osafoundation.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=12243\">got it working through a proxy<\/a>, so I&#8217;ll give it a good strong thrubbing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Contenders:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table border=1>\n<tr align=center>\n<th>app<\/th>\n<th>linux<\/th>\n<th>windoze<\/th>\n<th>web<\/th>\n<th>mobile<\/th>\n<th>open<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>chandler<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>thunderbird+lightning+provision<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>palm+kpilot+kontact+palm desktop<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>palm+evolution+palm desktop<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>egroupware<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>remember the milk<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>~<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>sunbird<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>outlook+covey or whatever addon<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>moleskin\/pen and paper<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=center>\n<td>wall calendar<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>x<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <strong>extremely<\/strong> hard to beat pen and paper, but I&#8217;ll give the others a run and see if something clicks&#8230;  if I&#8217;m going to be thorough here, I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_personal_information_managers\">my work cut out for me<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you organize your life? In the past I&#8217;ve entertained the thought that the important tasks rise to the top like cream, and there&#8217;s no reason to waste time shuffling todo lists when that time could otherwise be put to productive use &#8211; oh the irony! There&#8217;s truth to that &#8211; you can&#8217;t be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/plan-101\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plan 101<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10,4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-production","category-rants-and-raves","category-words-of-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-4L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/reiley-and-i-play-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":295,"position":0},"title":"Reiley and I play war","author":"m","date":"February 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday we decided that Reiley was old enough to play a Real Time Strategy war game with me. 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