I want to recommend Todoist (www.todoist.com). I find the web interface more fluent to work with than Remember the milk. When you add a todo item, you can write +3 for it to show up in 3 days, or "tod" if it's for today.
Regarding Pomodoro, sometimes I feel that I cannot concentrate on the work and keep checking my email and ending up browsing away. Pomodoro tells you to _really_ focus for 25 minutes. If you can, that's great, but I know a lot of people will wander off without even knowing it. So, Pomodoro is really more about actually focusing, than taking breaks. There's a good book by Staffan Nöteberg called the Pomodoro Technique Illustrated (http://www.pomodoro-book.com/). There are a bunch of programs that will help you (essentially glorified egg timers), of which a colleague and I have made one that's quite popular, called Pomodairo (it's made in Adobe Air, yeah desktop Java is dead ;). It's here if you are interested: http://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/ Cheers, Viktor Nordling On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > For ToDo I use RememberTheMilk. The Android program is not free, but > you can use Astrid which I've heard works well. I paid for Pro so I > could have the Android app. Integrates with Google, but I don't think > they cater to GTD but I don't think it would be hard considering how > flexible the tool is. You can email yourself tasks, lists of tasks, > set priorities, etc. > > My problem is limiting work and actually getting up to stretch. If I > get into the zone, a few hours can go by and I'll have totally lost > track of how long I had been working. > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Matthew Farwell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> Just listened to the developer practices podcast and I've got a couple of >> thoughts: >> 1) I use Evernote for todo lists. The main benefit for me is there is only >> one place to go. >> I got bored trying to find a todo-list application that 1) I can access from >> anywhere, android, windows, the web and 2) does exactly what I want it to, >> without lots of additional complexity. So now I use evernote to store my >> todo lists. I've got a todolist note for each project at work (currently 4 >> projects), and one personal one. The same applies to my GTD. I've got a set >> of folders for GTD, one note per GTD project. This works remarkably well >> when I'm doing GTD reviews and as a trusted system. >> 2) Using the pomodoro technique: (work for 25 minutes & then 5 minute >> break). I agree with Tor, I find if I'm coding then it's not particularly >> useful. If I'm doing something for which it's easy to get >> into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology), such as coding, then I >> find it easy to enter flow, so the pomodoros aren't necessary. However, if >> I'm doing stuff for which I find it hard to get into flow, then I find it >> helps to have something which pulls me back to focus. So if I'm doing some >> analysis, or some admin stuff, then I find it useful. >> Scott Hanselman has a very good podcast on this subject as well: >> http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=288 >> Have fun, >> Matthew. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Robert Casto > www.robertcasto.com > www.sellerstoolbox.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
