I’ve got another post up at AcademicProductivity.com, this time about the Research Assessment Exercise and evaluation. The response to the first post was really encouraging so I’m going to try and contribute regularly when I can.
Being part of a productivity website does make you look a bit more closely at your own productivity. In the past, I’ve found it fairly easy to juggle all my various tasks but recently I seem to have a lot more going on. So after poking around on the web, I decided to try the much vaunted Getting Things Done system.
It turns out that I was doing most of the steps anyway but finding Thinking Rock has made a big difference. It’s a software package that manages the workflow aspect of GTD and it has two big advantages for me. One, the data file is small and the software cross-platform so it’s easy to sync home and work. And two, once you start using it, it becomes the place to look for your to-do list (which is the whole point). No more bouncing between diary, Outlook, emails etc.
Thinking Rock doesn’t help with the goals and planning parts of GTD but at least you won’t have to worry about your task list.
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Yeah, the best thing I find ThinkingRock is that it helps you enforce the system which is really nice.
How do you sync the file between work and home? By copying the file or something?