Archive for the ‘GTD’ Category

Tips from a Top Sports Team Coach

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Wow! Great Great article: Tips from a Top Sports Team Coach

Urs Peter attended a coaching seminar where Marc Lammers, the (very successful) coach of the Dutch women’s national field hockey team, gave the keynote speech.

Urs Peter took some great quotes from Mr. Marc Lammers and translated them in his one way what it could mean in the world of Software development.

For me a must-read!

[via InfoQ]

Toodledo - GTD TODO list how it should be done!

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

For some time now I am a fond user of online TODO lists.

Doing so, really pushing myself to write every little task to a list has for me two big advantages:

  • I do not forget any task
  • I can forget my tasks. What I want to say: After writing down the tasks I am not able to do now, they won’t spin around in my head any longer.

At first I started with Tracks, an open source RoR which I installed on my server. It is a nice well-done application, but unfortunately it has some bugs and seems to be quite in development hibernation. [Not true anymore a new version just arrived, GIVE IT A TRY, could be perfect for you!]

After giving the big player RememberTheMilk I try, I was searching for another competitor offering a free IPhone/Ipod interface (RTM offers this only for paid accounts).

So I stumbled upon: Toodledo!

Important for me was, that adding a task was only a click and you do not have to rethink several options until you can press the ‘Add’ button.
Toodledo has both: you can add your tasks and refine the additional options later.

Toodledo let’s you add a Due-Date and a Priority to your tasks and takes this information to prioritize your tasks in a perfect way!

Features of Toodledo (… I am a fan of. There are several more…):

  • adding a due date
  • setting a priority
  • grouping into folders
  • setting the estimated time for a task
  • tracking the elapsed time
  • setting goals for a set of tasks
  • IPhone interface
  • GCal integration

There a a lot of other features that might fit your way of Getting Things Done.
Give Toodledo a try!!