Beeminder: +4. The reminders are invaluable, the cash inventive maybe less so. The flexibility of being able to build up credit on some days for when a busy day, or a day of little motivation occurs is fantastic. My biggest problem is figuring out the best way to formulate goals.
Evernote to-do lists: +6. Haven’t finished reading GTD, so I’m unsure how much overlap there is here. Essentially I have several sets of notes in evernote. Shopping, To-do, Long term projects / goals. As I think of things to do they get recorded in to do. I also review on my desktop the shopping and to-do lists each night before bed. I’ve trained myself into the habit of checking the to-do list each morning, lunch time and evening, and the shopping list at lunch time, and before leaving to go home from work.
The difference from how I tried to track things to do just a few months ago is night and day. I’m currently in the process of integrating a weekly (Sunday evening) review of my goals to see what new things should be slotted in to the next week’s tasks.
I’m still trying to figure out how to handle things I need to do on future days (eg, follow up with the real estate agent on thursday). I’m currently recording these in the day’s to-do with a note for the day to do it on, but not being able to tick off everything on the list reduces some of the visceral satisfaction of clearing the whole list out.
Beeminder: +4. The reminders are invaluable, the cash inventive maybe less so. The flexibility of being able to build up credit on some days for when a busy day, or a day of little motivation occurs is fantastic. My biggest problem is figuring out the best way to formulate goals.
Evernote to-do lists: +6. Haven’t finished reading GTD, so I’m unsure how much overlap there is here. Essentially I have several sets of notes in evernote. Shopping, To-do, Long term projects / goals. As I think of things to do they get recorded in to do. I also review on my desktop the shopping and to-do lists each night before bed. I’ve trained myself into the habit of checking the to-do list each morning, lunch time and evening, and the shopping list at lunch time, and before leaving to go home from work.
The difference from how I tried to track things to do just a few months ago is night and day. I’m currently in the process of integrating a weekly (Sunday evening) review of my goals to see what new things should be slotted in to the next week’s tasks.
I’m still trying to figure out how to handle things I need to do on future days (eg, follow up with the real estate agent on thursday). I’m currently recording these in the day’s to-do with a note for the day to do it on, but not being able to tick off everything on the list reduces some of the visceral satisfaction of clearing the whole list out.