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Ah yes, we decided to be geeks about our chickens' egg production by cooking up a Google spreadsheet to track our hens' laying history. Then we got the idea to make it into a nifty eye candy chart. Then we decided to embed it in the blog. See the title bar up top for the permanent home. For those too lazy to click, I'll help you for the first time:

We'll update it frequently, maybe not always daily.

I won't be too wordy here since I'm tired, maybe more later... very stream of thought so sorry if it's a bit hard to read.

At the end of 07 here is my current GTD system:

Revolves around MS Outlook - work emails get the GTD add in treatment, and my inbox is almost daily at 0.
If it is a work task it goes into the appropriate context, project, and subproject (optional).
If it is a home task I type it in as Non-work, @home/@errands, and the appropriate subproject. Subprojects are most important but are also a little loose, as not all have a specific outcome (for example, I have Subproject Fitness - maintain gear). As such many of these will never go away but I don't have a problem with that so far.

If it is an input from phone, people talking to me, meetings etc, it goes into an Outlook task as well.
I have the tasks syncing via ActiveSync and I'm using Oxios To-Do to replace the crappy WM 5 task thing.

Capturing on the go - not the best at this, but I almost always have my phone so, either an Oxios task, which syncs back to outlook, or a sticky note which also syncs to outlook via Smartphone Notes app.

I have just added EverNote which I have syncing between home and work 'puters, and I have the phone beta also. I also have the portable version which means I can use it anywhere there is a computer via my USB drive.

Any stickies I take will now end up in EN. I am using EN as a electronic filer, reference tagged stuff.

I am also moving the Google Notebook entries I have used into EN as well. I will continue to use Goog Notebooks when away from EN but the goal will be to get things into EN.

I am trying to get to fewer collection points.
So, next hit is my gazillion email addresses, all of which can result in lurking actions. I have started with pointing one at gmail, and so far so good. Gmail seems to auto sort it, and it's also killing the Russian spam (WHAT GAME PLAY??) one of my boxes is innundated with. My gmail acct is finally at a zero inbox, with any resulting tasks going into... Outlook! Also, Gmail seems to be able to smartly respond with the right from address so we'll test this out a bit.

I will forward over my other email boxes in a week or so if this goes well.

Non electronic... painful....
work files are in order, with proper GTD labeling, and as of yesterday, even in alphabetical order.
Home files - non-existent per GTD system. Goal for this weekend will be to set up home files. Unfortunately this will mean purging lots of crud from my old files. I don't like this part. I will not be doing Aaron's files including his overstuffed "manuals" file as I have enough to deal with my own.

several piles of mail around the house BLEAH. maybe once I have proper files, I can do something about this. most days I hate the mail as it just adds stuff to piles.

weekly review: occurs weekly at work. occurs never at home. goal will be to add home reviews in 08. even tho I do these at work, I have no qualms with capturing home tasks at work (and even doing, to a limited degree). After all, if it is on my mind, it is taking energy away from my work, so the sooner its either captured or dealt with the better. same thing for work at home, on a limited basis. I tend not to worry about work things as much though, since I know my GTD system is working well there...

hmm maybe that is some proof after all - the part of my life that feels disorganized and worries me is the part I have least GTD in.......

things I am currently tinkering with... MindManager, Cyberpad digital notepad w/RitePen software, and maximizing my understanding of EN and MM.