How are you Mac folks doing reminders and structuring to-dos?
Submitted by braintoniq on November 29, 2007 - 3:19am.
As of Leopard, I’m a transplant from Entourage to the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo. Over in Entourage for the past 7 years, I created a slick Zero Inbox system by using delayed reminders, using a cool combo of Applescripts that removed emails out of the Inbox until a time when I needed to deal with them. I haven’t figured out a system yet in the Mail world.
I’d love to hear how you Mac GTD’ers are using timers/reminders to postpone to-dos until the time you need to deal with them. I’m intrigued by OmniFocus, but it doesn’t seem to be set up to do timers; more, it looks like a way to order ones to-dos in the sequence they need to be done. It might work, to switch from a popup timer world, to just remembering to look at a list. But before I dive in to OmniFocus, I’d love to hear how others are dealing with their to-dos using the Mail/Address Book/iCal/.mac combo.
Thanks for any ideas.
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Great subject
I too have been a long Entourage user for email and project management, very happy, and used Palm Desktop for my calendar and contacts (so old but still so good, hard to believe). But when I upgraded to Leopard, and I’m happy to see I’m not alone, I decided to go all Apple: Mail, iCal, Address book for three reasons: all UB, high level of integration, and Entourage’s monolithic database structure doesn’t play well with Time Machine. Plus, I plan on getting an iPhone and the syncing sounds (mostly) good. Oh, and now my wife and I can subscribe to each other’s calendars.
Overall I’m happy but iCal is the weakest of the lot - I’ve just been using To-do’s in both iCal and Mail and Notes a little, but I agree they are very limited.
I don’t have any additional solutions to offer, just wanted to chime in that I’m in the same boat and wanted to acknowledge all the great posts.