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To Do with TouchToDo [iPhone Apps I Like]

12 Jun

I have found another app I’m willing to pay for!

I use this app daily to prioritise my to-do list.

I love the synchronisation options – as well as the ability to export and import.

Export, import, synchronise - it's all there.

There are only 2 issues that I have with this:

  1. Tasks added to my Google calendar through the web interface are not added to my tasks list – not really a big deal as I don’t use the web interface
  2. Tasks added to my Google calendar are added as events, not tasks. (Again, not really a big deal, as I don’t use the web front end that much, however I can see how this might be a sticking point for some.)

It has a lite version for those that want to try it first – I wish more app makers would do this.

Check out the App Home Page – TouchToDo.

 
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My Big Weakness is Procrastination, so now I eat frogs!

23 Jan

Currently there are 18 things on my to do list and 79 emails in my ‘focus’ inbox.

That means that I have… (gets out the calculator coz my brain is tired)…

97 things to do!!

No one can manage that sort of list. This doesn’t include personal things, and other tasks that haven’t been documented that will, no doubt, creep up during the day.

So why am I writing a post now?

Because up until 15th January, a little over a week ago, it was at more than 150 things to do!

Eating the frog - first!

Eating the frog - first!

So what happened?

I had an epiphany! Thanks to Simple Mom who posted something that just clicked with me, on eating frogs for breakfast!

It’s a reference to a quote from Mark Twain:

“Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” -Mark Twain

It’s summarised well after the link – “The basic idea is that if you do the worst thing on your plate first thing in the morning, the rest of the day is a cake walk.”

I have loads of frogs on my list – that’s why it’s so long. And this procrastination habit I’ve had most of my life… so now it’s just out of control.

Until last week, that is!

So every morning, chomp! Cat goes to the vet (pain the neck coz she gets car sick)! Chomp! Papers are marked (reading variations on the same thing gets very tedious)! Chomp! Artwork designs are done 50 times for a client (try doing the same thing more than 5 times and you run out of inspiration and motivation)!

Yay!

 
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Decluttering my Inbox

15 Apr

inboxI’m a huge fan of the Unclutterer Blog, and I read daily posts via my Feed Reader on my mobile phone. It has inspired me to clean my study, and of late it has inspired me to clean up my inbox.

I’ve implemented a tagging system similar to that described by Gina Trapani from Lifehacker, but at the end of the day, there were subscriptions that had built up over time that I was deleting on a daily basis. They weren’t even going in a ‘to read’ pile (I find piles like that never get read).

Instead, I started sorting my inbox, and using the following criteria I culled:

  1. Not interested in the subject any more – remove subscription
  2. Haven’t read the last 5 emails that they sent – remove subscription
  3. Not sure – automatically tag it when it comes in (I used gmail filters and tag with ‘subscribe_eval’). I have started evaluating these every week (I have set a Google calendar email alert to do so). If I don’t read, then see point 2 above.

If I keep them, then there must be a reason, and I don’t want an archived set of newsletter and advertising emails in my email account, so I must either:

  1. Read and delete, or
  2. Go to the article or link that I am interested in (if there is a web-based version) and bookmark it using Magnolia or Delicious (I use Magnolia). That way I can search for it easily if I need it in the future, tag it appropriately, and organise it in a way that can be used.
 
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