CodeDread Blog » gtd http://www.codedread.com/blog Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:30:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Trying To Get Things Done http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2009/02/16/trying-to-get-things-done/ http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2009/02/16/trying-to-get-things-done/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:35:03 +0000 Jeff http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2009/02/16/trying-to-get-things-done/ I’ve struggled a long time with trying to come up with the perfect solution for tracking my Things To Do. For the last several months I’ve tried to use a physical notepad and small pen in my back pocket, but that’s literally turning into a pain in the ass. Here are my requirements for a digital system:

  1. View and edit from any computer connected to the web in a password-protected fashion
  2. View and edit locally from my personal computer when offline
  3. View and edit from my mobile
  4. Automatically sync to one central list
  5. Private with occasional times when I might want to share
  6. Ability to arbitrarily categorize, sort, filter

That last requirement really kills any plain-text solution without some other higher-level tool/markup.

Now that I have an Android phone with a WebKit browser, requirement #3 becomes easier to fulfill.

Google Docs actually comes the closest to meeting all the above requirements were it not for one important thing:

Google Docs does not allow you to edit spreadsheets offline!

I’m sure the Google engineers are working hard on this important feature, but describing the existing application as ‘available offline’ is kind of stretching it at the moment.

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  • Full-finger-typing on a regular-size keyboard
  • Writing with a pen/pencil on paper
  • Thumb-typing on a small QWERTY keyboard
  • Stylus recognition on a touchscreen
  • Voice notes
  • Scoring the flesh of my forearm in Morse Code with a rusty Bowie knife
  • Typing with one thumb on my phone’s number keypad

Which one do you use? Guess which one I use…

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