The Treo 650 is the synthesis of all that I tried to achieve ever since I first connected my Palm Pilot 1000 (with the Palm III upgrade) to the Ericsson SH-888 I got after breaking my beloved Ericsson GH-388. It is my best defense against chaos and my best ally in Getting Things Done. Without it, keeping pace with an increasingly complex and accelerating life would be a hard problem.
By the way, taking inspiration in the the methods related to David Allen’s Getting Things Done really does improve productivity while requiring less energy and generating less stress. My favorite arsenal for implenting it includes :
- A smartphone
- A bunch of wikis – some collaborative, some personnal
- Ticket tracking systems
The “work smarter not harder” mantra may be overrused but it does actually apply here… I love my Treo 650 !
The integrated keyboard is surprisingly pleasing to use for small messages and quick notes, but be sure to use the Treo with a foldable keyboard with full-size keys so that you can input large quantity of text painlessly. Unless you need to access heavy documents on the move a laptop suddendly does not make much sense anymore…
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Regarding productivity, you could have a look at :
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/25/2044252&tid=166&tid=99
Procrastination can be productivity ! ;))
Am I so transparent that the first thing that came to your mind after reading this post was the ‘P’ word ? I made a point of not talking of procrastination, but indeed that is exactly what this post is about : I am a big procrastinator. After years of trying to fight this tendancy I ended up channeling it so that can use its power for my purposes instead of wasting energy going against it. The Paul Graham’s article mentioned at Slashdot is right : even thought I am much better organized, what I am doing is still a weak form of procrastination. But Paul Graham forgets something crucial : the small things do matter, very much. Some small things are actually usefull, others make life much more fun. John Perry’s Structured Procrastination reflects part of my point of view. But whatever methodology boils down to Stephen Covey’s four quadrants time management matrix mentioned in “7 Habits of Highly Effective people”. The method is universal, but the classification is quite subjective. So in the end it is all about choosing what you procrastinate, as long as you understand what you are doing and do it in an organized way.