Gui Cremerius

Last week I was in Manhattan to go over the outsourcing proposal I mentioned a few weeks ago with our global team. We stayed at the Embassy Suites Hotel next to Ground Zero and the World Financial Center. Since 9/11 I was never back to downtown Manhattan and I was really impressed with what was left.

While walking around that area I had to go to Borders to digg around the bookshelves, and on my way out I stumbled upon David Allen’s paperback edition of Getting Things Done. I first tried GTD on my Palm a few years back with Shadow Plan, an excellent hierarchical list manager, that fell a little bit short on the desktop version. I still have it on my Palm and use it to manage a few lists but not for GTD anymore. I actually never implemented GTD based on David Allen’s book, because I never got the book in the first place. It was all based on his basic idea I got from groups and forums that are out there.
Last year I came across My Life Organized, a way better desktop task manager that even got a GTD template build in (and a PPC version, but not a Palm one), which I started to use right away. It syncs with Outlook, but I haven’t ventured into that feature yet. With all these projects and activities I’m getting lately, I decided to get serious about this, so I took the opportunity and bought the book. It’s and interesting reading since it has many good examples of his methodology which I will try to make work with MLO.