Comments on: Finding your own trusted GTD system

By: Chip Joyce

Chip Joyce — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:32:31 +0000

Bill,
I switched to Omnifocus early this year because I out-grew Things. It turned out that I needed to attack the much steeper learning curve of Omnifocus to get to features that Things lacked, and I started to want. The set-up document, “GTD, Omnifocus, and You,” helped me a great deal.

Much of the sophistication I have built into my lists, on Omnifocus, pertains to my work.

I like Things, and for a lot of people it is adequate. But there is no way I could do in Things what I am doing in Omnifocus now.

By: Chip Joyce

Chip Joyce — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:07:57 +0000

Andrew, I meant iCal.

By: Bill Henry

Bill Henry — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:07:31 +0000

Chip,
When – and why – did you switch from Things to Omnifocus? In a previous post about a year ago (http://www.gtdtimes.com/2009/06/11/look-inside-someones-gtd-setup/) you said that Omnifocus was “too complicated.” What makes Omnifocus so valuable now that you engineer all of your hardware and software around it?
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Bill Henry
My configuration: iMac + Blackberry

By: andrew bartelt

andrew bartelt — Sat, 22 May 2010 20:22:23 +0000

when you say “iCalendar” do you mean the built-in iCal program or is this some third-party program? i tried googling “iCalendar mac” and couldn’t find it. -andrew

By: Chip Joyce

Chip Joyce — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:32:16 +0000

Jon,
I do not use sub-projects.

By: Jon Giganti

Jon Giganti — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:44:44 +0000

Chip,
Great article. Very insightful. Sounds like you make what could be a complex and frustrating environment very user-friendly. I find that the more simplicity I put into my system the better. I use Lotus Notes and Eproductivity today, but thinking about switching from blackberry to iphone, so I may have to adopt some of your recommendations. I’m in sales as well and I like your category for Account Development – I think I’m going to steal that one. Today, I use Oracle as a CRM to manage my pipeline and create projects off of each opportunity. Curious to know how you manage sub-projects for various “projects” in your pipeline? Thanks for the post!

By: Noel

Noel — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:22:03 +0000

This is very similar to my own setup. I work for IBM and they obviously rely on Lotus Notes. One minor twist is that I create folders in Lotus Notes that are used exclusively as reference. Then I just drag any emails I need from Lotus Notes into the note field in OmniFocus to create a link to my email if I need to reference it from withing some action in OmniFocus.

By: Nels

Nels — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:33:15 +0000

This is very similar to what I was doing at my old job. I’ll be starting a new job on Monday, so it will be interesting to see what tools they use and how I adapt my system.

Thanks for posting this – it makes those of us with more complicated system diagrams feel like we’re still doing it right.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:21:31 +0000

Chip,
Great article….Really needed to read that today as I have just made a major shift in my career and going thru the same GTD system updates. Been a very stressful month. I finally have the parts, pieces, plan and direction…just about 2 more weeks of fine tuning and getting the trust back in the system to 100%:) Thanks again for the great post!
Michelle