whatsthenextaction

The Northwest Florida Daily News runs a little article on how your Inbox reflects your state of mind. How organized are you in life is reflected on the number of messages in you Inbox. Are you a hoarder or a deleter? There is some advice from consultants and writers of books for the chronically disorganized…

OK, no means to diss anyone at the excellent Lifehacker crew (especially Gina!) but I tried the Quicklogger script which was featured last week and there is a very very obvious reason why it just doesn’t work for me. First a little introduction in what we’re talking about. Quicklogger is a VB script which gives…

[[image:backcal.jpg:little piece of calendar:left:0]]Yeah, I’m almost back. But this is news I really have to share. I just got word through an email from a dutch weblog that Backpack has (finally) integrated a calendar application in their online organizer. Now, I can’t find anything on their own website but there is a special page with…

If you read this in your RSS reader, please ignore. I am testing a new setup of my blog.

I received an email from Mirko Zorz the other day. He is the editor a contributor of a croatian magazine called Mreza (“Net in English”) and he writes the following: “Hello,I’ve been an avid reader of “What’s the next action” for a while now. As a GTD enthusiast I wrote an article for the leading…

As I said before, I wrote a (lengthy) article for the excellent Blackbeltproductivity blog in their “Blackbelt series”. I feel really good about the article. Please check it out and let Jason, Michael and me know what you think. It is rather lengthy, but I hope it adresses some recognizable issues for every GTD-er. I…

Okay, this may come as no surprise, but lately I have become a bit tired of writing on blogs. It is not I hate writing, but most of the time I can’t get myself around to get some real story or some sort of point in my articles. Since a lot things are changing for…

Just a quick note that I just added CoComments to this blog. Now you can track your own comments through this nifty service. Just sign up (for free) and you can have your own RSS feed with comment-tracking. Let me know what you think!

Already a couple of days ago but so much fun to do. I was at the “Reboot”:http://www.reboot.dk conference in Copenhagen last week. This conference is different from others, since the program is made up by the participants itself. There are some speakers but there are also some open slots for anyone to fill in with…

This afternoon I noticed “a very interesting post”:http://blogs.adobe.com/kiwi/2006/05/an_overview_of_notetag_1.html on one of the developers blog from Adobe. They made a webbased tool called “NoteTag”:http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/NoteTag, which gives you a flash-based environment to take notes. But that’s not all. The notes are not stored in some proprietary format like EverNote, but you can publish them directly to Blogger…

I found a nice little easteregg which makes using “Google Notebook”:http://www.google.com/notebook/ even easier. Well…I found “an article”:http://inner.geek.nz/archives/2006/05/18/google-notebook-firefox-extension-easter-egg/ describing the easteregg. After enabling it you will see a little “note this +” sign next to your selected text. This makes it really easy to notate nice quotes, pieces of articles and other online stuff. “Check it…

[[image:gtdmasthead.jpg::center:0]] You Americans…you are soooo lucky that The Dave lives right around the corner and he makes his “Roadmap tour”:http://www.davidco.com/seminars/seminar_the_roadmap.php across your country. We here in Europe are stuck with the GTD Fast CD’s and “blogs”:http://www.google.nl/search?q=GTD+roadmap&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official about how cool it is to attend a GTD seminar. Well, that got me thinking. Since David Allen is…

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It is sunday afternoon right now. And I feel more relaxed than any other sunday afternoon for the past couple of months. Why is that? Because I had not only one, but two “Weekly Reviews”:http://www.punkey.com/pivot/entry.php?id=7021&w=whats_the_next_action in a row! And it felt great doing them! Let me explain in this post what I…

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The blog “Creating Passionate Users” has “an excellent write-up”:http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/04/the_myth_of_kee.html on why you will never keep up with all your reading and how you can help yourself reducing the amount of information you want or need to absorb. One of the best Don’t file it. Don’t store it. What you don’t have piling up you can’t…

“OpenSubject”:http://opensubject.pbwiki.com/ is an public project to make email correspondence more efficient through the use of simple 3 letter codes. Instead of using your project name as a subject for every message you sent you enter a code which says something about the contents or tha message and the desired action to be taken by the…

The last couple of weeks have been a rollercoaster ride. Again. It just doesn’t seem to stop and yeah, the first I seem to do is fall back in old habits. I forget I have a Next action list. I haven’t looked in it for a couple of weeks but I just look at the…

I would like to welcome the people of “Blackbeltproductivity.net”:http://www.blackbeltproductivity.net/blog/ in the GTD-blogspace! Started yesterday and I look forward in what they have to offer on insights, new tips and tricks on implementing GTD.

This is quite a surprise to me. During my day off because of Easter, I cleaned my offline magazine-stack by basically throwing them all away. I was planning on doing the same with my collection of PDF’s on my laptop. But I thought “Well…There are some interesting ones but I need a system to find…

Paasochtend. De family ligt nog te slapen en ik zit lekker rustig op de bank met “Stevie Ray Vaughan, Live at the El Mocambo”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305019681?v=glance op DVD. Zo’n typisch zondagochtendje. Lekker man. Maar het is niet dat we deze paasdagen geheel op de reet gaan doorbrengen. Neuh neuh neuh… Vorige week hebben we een paar potten…

I got a comment from John Ratcliffe-Lee on “my article”:http://www.punkey.com/pivot/entry.php?id=7002&w=whats_the_next_action on GTD and Backpack. He wrote an “excellent follow-up”:http://jratlee.newsvine.com/news/2006/04/13/165058-campfire-gtd where he describes how he uses the new 37Signal product “Campfire”:http://www.campfirenow.com to complement his GTD-ness in Backpack/Basecamp. I don’t quite understand yet what the advantage is, but perhaps that will come in the following days. What…

As David Allen always says: The one thing that makes or breaks your implementation of GTD is the Weekly Review. Be sure to check out my article “What IS Getting Things Done” to get an overview of the WR in the whole system. Nothing is more difficult to start or maintain than that Weekly Review.…