MyLife Organized Time Management Software

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.mylifeorganized.net/index.htm">http://www.mylifeorganized.net/index.htm</a><br /><br /><i>"MyLife Organized (MLO) is a personal task outliner and to-do list manager which will help you to organize your goals, projects and tasks into a tree. The To-Do list with actions that require immediate attention will be generated. This list of next actions will be sorted in order of priority to keep you focused on the most important tasks."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2006/20070804-mylifeorganized.gif" /><br /><br />There is also a desktop component that you can sync with. This software seems centered around David Allen's <a href="http://www.davidco.com/">Getting Things Done</a> philosophy. I happen to be reading this book, which you can pick up on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142000280/002-2408046-7210421">Amazon</a>. I have to admit, the practices advocated in his book are 180 degrees opposite from most time management/priority oriented philosophies, but they are starting to make sense to me. I might have to look into this software when I get farther along in the book and implementation.

[bvkeen]

I think I'll go ahead and give this software a shot now. I've been aware of it for some time, but I'm an advocate of keeping it simple and sticking with the basic software where possible. (Until very recently, David Allen used a Palm Tungsten model, with zero extra software, and just switched to a Treo 700p, so simplicity does work well for GTD. If Palm could manage their way out of a wet paper bag, they would have advertised David's use of a Palm, but they didn't, which is just one of their many failures.) I personally have used Pocket Informant very successfully for implementing GTD for a long while (it's detailed a bit on my website at the Managing Tasks link).

But, we all tend to get stale if we don't try new things out, so I'll give MLO a shot.

Good to see you reading the book. And, no, I haven't found the perfect note-taking software yet (maybe it's hidden within MLO, though I doubt it).

Take care,
Bruce

[Marcel_Proust]

I think I'll go ahead and give this software a shot now. I've been aware of it for some time, but I'm an advocate of keeping it simple and sticking with the basic software where possible. (Until very recently, David Allen used a Palm Tungsten model, with zero extra software, and just switched to a Treo 700p, so simplicity does work well for GTD. If Palm could manage their way out of a wet paper bag, they would have advertised David's use of a Palm, but they didn't, which is just one of their many failures.) I personally have used Pocket Informant very successfully for implementing GTD for a long while (it's detailed a bit on my website at the Managing Tasks link).

But, we all tend to get stale if we don't try new things out, so I'll give MLO a shot.

Good to see you reading the book. And, no, I haven't found the perfect note-taking software yet (maybe it's hidden within MLO, though I doubt it).

Take care,
Bruce

Hi Bruce,
Yeah, I know Dave Allen had this thing about a Palm with nothing else on it, but I never got that. Maybe he wasn't a gadget guy. But I think PPC afficiandos are and that this is a great implentation. I've been using PI to integrate the Dave Allen system as well, and it's fine, but I think this is sleeker and worth a look. Does a lot of the work for you and enables a much fuller implentation.
I've been trying out PI2007 beta, which is going to be integrated with Franklin Covey. For me Franklin Covey is bleh. Never helped me. Others swear by it. As an aside, the new PI2007 beta is worth getting even if you 're not into the Franklin Covey stuff - it's blazingly fast! i don't know what the developers did but it's a huge improvement over PI2005 and makes AF pokey slow, imho.
I also like and have used PocketThinker for implementing this system, and it's been effective, but it's not quite as sleek as this. Pockethinker is a very well priced and very flexible program, even if not pretty.
As for the Dave Allen system, it's the one that works for me very well, and the counterintuition he has is right on. I think it's worth trying out a few systems and seeing which one is effective for your needs, so I also appreciate the 45 day trial.

[Marcel_Proust]

ps The Dave Allen book Ed recommended is also available at Audible. It's done very well. Check audible for special sales, I got them about a year ago for next to nothing.
You can have instant gratification and listen to it on your ppc!

[Marcel_Proust]

I think I'll go ahead and give this software a shot now. I've been aware of it for some time, but I'm an advocate of keeping it simple and sticking with the basic software where possible. (Until very recently, David Allen used a Palm Tungsten model, with zero extra software, and just switched to a Treo 700p, so simplicity does work well for GTD. If Palm could manage their way out of a wet paper bag, they would have advertised David's use of a Palm, but they didn't, which is just one of their many failures.) I personally have used Pocket Informant very successfully for implementing GTD for a long while (it's detailed a bit on my website at the Managing Tasks link).

But, we all tend to get stale if we don't try new things out, so I'll give MLO a shot.

Good to see you reading the book. And, no, I haven't found the perfect note-taking software yet (maybe it's hidden within MLO, though I doubt it).

Take care,
Bruce

On a completely different track, that's an interesting point about Palm missing another opportunity of many. How did Palm lose such a big lead? Remember the days when wince was an unknown underdog? Maybe it was only partially about what MS did right but more about how Palm did nothing right. It's interesting to compare Palm to Apple and the iPod, and how Apple has been able to keep the name iPod synonymous with mp3 players while Palm might just die. So Zune might be excellent, but MS may have a harder time if Apple continues to follow a brilliant marketing strategy.

[Lex]

Seems like ListPro could come close to doing this?

[bvkeen]

Marcel,
Thanks for letting me know you've gotten good use out of MLO ... that will make me try a bit harder to make it work. I have it loaded now and have played a bit with it. Only real downside is that there doesn't seem to be true sync mechanism for it yet, but I can export the xml file from my laptop or 4700 to the other, which accomplishes the same as a sync.

On your PPC/Palm/Apple/Zune hypothesis, I tend to agree with you. Palm committed suicide and Apple doesn't appear to be suicidal. However MS's spare billions can accomplish miracles when they don't screw it up. Will be interesting to watch.

I have the PI2007 beta on my Treo 700w, but prefer to not load it on top of the PI included on my 4700. I will continue experimenting with MLO on the 4700, though.

Take care,
Bruce

[Marcel_Proust]

Marcel,
Thanks for letting me know you've gotten good use out of MLO ... that will make me try a bit harder to make it work. I have it loaded now and have played a bit with it. Only real downside is that there doesn't seem to be true sync mechanism for it yet, but I can export the xml file from my laptop or 4700 to the other, which accomplishes the same as a sync.

On your PPC/Palm/Apple/Zune hypothesis, I tend to agree with you. Palm committed suicide and Apple doesn't appear to be suicidal. However MS's spare billions can accomplish miracles when they don't screw it up. Will be interesting to watch.

I have the PI2007 beta on my Treo 700w, but prefer to not load it on top of the PI included on my 4700. I will continue experimenting with MLO on the 4700, though.

Take care,
Bruce

Hi Bruce,
Did you try the latest version? It is a true activesync now. A bit clunky for setup, you have to locate the file. But once you do, it works well.

Re MS - the only problem with their billions, is that they sometimes seem like a dinosaur, depending only on brute force, and not using much brains. At other times they surprise, so it will be ineresting.

The problem with loading the PI on the 4700 is that it seems to me because of the built in PI, you can't relocate the very large dlls's PI installs to a storage card. And minimizing main storage use is important for WM5 use. I've asked for ways to do it, but have not heard of any back. Will post if it comes up, or maybe just the new Wizard.

I apologize to dinosaurs for any unfair stereotyping.

Marcel

[ikesler]

I use Pocket Informant for my GTD organization and am quite pleased with it... it is a stretch in some areas, but as whole I am pretty happy with it. Now with Projects implemented into the PI builds, it is pretty solid.
I am going to give this app a shot too, can't wait to try it out.

[bvkeen]

Hi Marcel,

I thought I had the latest build, but I did grab from their regular downloads page and didn't check for betas. Also, since you noted that there is a separate file for it, I'll hunt to see if I have it and wasn't aware of it. Will probably do tomorrow as I'm winding down from a long week.

Thanks for all the help and the thoughts,
Bruce