getting organized
March 8th, 2007 | by Todd W |
I’ve always had an organization problem. It’s starting to become a problem with all the stuff I have going on right now. Between my main job at Pfizer, the Papa Johns thing, working on AudioMonk, helping a friend with a web project, blogging, and remodeling a basement, the strain is showing.
My brother mentioned Vitalist to me. You might have come across the “Getting Things Done” frenzy on the web right now, and Vitalist is billed as GTD web-based software. While I’m not doing GTD yet, this already has some potential.
Essentially, Vitalist is a task list application. Yeah, I know Outlook can do the same thing, but I work on two or three different machines per day. The more I can move to a web based system, the better off I’m going to be in the long run.
With my Vitalist, I can fire off quick emails to my account, where they will wait for me to log in and organize them, assigning due dates, categories etc. Even my wife can email things there and I don’t have an excuse to forget about it.
In addition, it ties into RSS, so my Netvibes page now has my task list floating in the corner, admonishing me for surfing blogs instead of working on my list.
It’s still early, but I already think this is going to be useful.
