Why this blog? Well, I’ve been captivated by the idea of being more productive with technology for years, but disappointed most of the time. Technology promises so much but often delivers so little. And when it does deliver it’s often in bite size chunks of goodness that often don’t taste good together – a fully functional integrated system just isn’t there.
I started using computers at the dawn of the PC age, back in the 1980’s – the ZX81, Spectrum, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, a Commodore 3o32 (like a PET but more grown up, with 32k of RAM!), an 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium, oh the happy days. Technology on the move wasn’t really up to much – it was either a ‘portable’ machine with a 5″ CRT tube weighing a ton, or a glorified calculator that could store contact information but couldn’t connect to a computer. I tried a PalmPilot in the early 2000s, but always eventually found that a pen and paper was often still far superior.
After getting heavily into GTD about 6 years ago, I was always on the look out for a way to make it work electronically. There are some good apps out there, for the PC, and for various mobile operating systems, but integration has always been either a bit clunky, or complex, or flaky. I found that the tool was always in danger of becoming more of a focus that the tasks.
For work, I find myself on the move a lot, often having to work in a clients office for a while using one of their machines. What I really, really want is a seamless environment, that works on any machine – fixed or mobile, and that doesn’t require a lot of faffing about with. I used to sometimes enjoy the faffing more than the doing, but as I get older and time becomes more scarce, I find myself just wanting to get on with the doing.
So that’s what this blog is for. It’s for those that want to do, not faff. To be productive, not trying to be productive. For those that want to use the technology to enable their work to get done, not to work at getting the technology working.
I hope you find it useful!
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