Maldroth's Inner Sanctum

Alright so in addition to the blog I've been looking at productivity websites. I blame my phone really. Suppose I should explain a bit. In late November I purchased a LG Voyager. I didn't want an iPhone for a couple of reasons. First I'd have to switch carriers and if there is a physical problem with the phone I'd have to send it in to be fixed and I'd be sans phone until the repair was done. Yeah that's not happening. The LG Voyager is really good but not quite as flexible as the iPhone...yet. Sounds like Verizon is opening up their network this year so we may start to see more software be developed for the phone. Currently is all rumor but if they want it to compete with the iPhone they are going to need to step up. 

Ok rambling aside I've found that I use the calander function more and more lately. So with that I'm looking at integrating it with Outlook since I have that at home and work. With all of that they are great to track events, but not really tasks. Step in GTD (Get It Done) software. I'm playing around with two right now. Hiveminder and Remember the Milk. Both are task managers. You place in tasks that need to be completed and categorize them with tags, due dates and reminders. Some more advanced sites allow for e-mail or even SMS reminders. Very handy with unlimited texts. Hiveminder I like because they have what's called the Braindump. You create a list of items and put tags in a [tag] format. Very easy to compile a huge list of things to do and then go back and prioritize those and sort them. Problem I'm having with Hiveminder is getting task info on my mobile phone and remembering the damn commands. Might be an issue with Mobile IM which hasn't seemed to be responding right lately.  Remember the Milk seems much more straight forward but it's impossible to create new tasks via mobile until you email them into the system. I am pleased with the alertting though since it can send an SMS message to remind my lazy ass.

So now for Calandars. Well there is Outlook and Google Calandar. Nice thing with the Google one is it seems to accept more formats and it's available anywhere with internet access including my phone. I think I just need to play with it more. Currently I have to download my calendar from my phone using BitPim and then import or upload it. What I need to test is if I can import those back to the phone.

Also looking at playing around with Microsoft Money again to keep up on bills and such. I've basically sat around idle with all this software around me and it's about time I start to use it to get organized.