Hi AbeG, I have implemented the GTD model, but I don't recall a suggestion to have a single inbox as a starting point. I even have downloaded a flowchart from the GTD site that shows your inbox is stuff in your head, results of meetings, drive-bys, e-mails, letters, magazines, etc. The way I use it is simply I go into processing mode. When I do that, I'm processing everything that is in my "inbox", which means everything that is not in MLO.
I have been very successful that way and feel that I keep my "inbox" to a minimum. Elizabeth On Thursday, April 10, 2014 4:14:42 PM UTC-5, AbeG wrote: > > Short explanation - > > I did but I'm actually having a hard time from a big picture point of view > when it comes to synchronizing data in general. > > Long explanation - > > The GTD model recommends that all of your tasks get funneled into a single > inbox as a starting point but there seems to be no easy and reliable way to > do this. Let's say that I want to use my outlook.com email as the > starting point where I dump all my information. This works fine from a > desktop computer, but android does not natively support outlook tasks (or > google tasks for that matter). The MLO app for android does not directly > sync this information either, which means that one must add another layer > of synchronization to their GTD process. > > Let's say that instead of using outlook as my inbox starting point, I use > MLO. This now means that I have to have access to MLO and Outlook so that > I may manually copy and paste information from emails over to MLO instead > of just converting an email to a task. This process becomes even more > cumbersome on a cellphone screen. Some might say that I could create a > task by forwarding the email as an easy fix. However, email is not the > only source of where my tasks can come from. I need to sort through the > information from text messages, voice mail, social media - > facebook/linkedin events, messages, evernote, my password management > program, quicken, youmail, etc. > > Personally, I am impartial to which program I end up using for an inbox > starting point but for the time being it seems that an email client is the > closest thing. This is not an endorsement for Outlook as a GTD program, > but merely to illustrate my point. Outlook can be set up with unified > communications so that voice messages get sent there and transcribed > (google voice, youmail, and others do this). Evernote and OneNote both > have plugins for outlook that let you move your data to either notebook > program. From Onenote, you can assign todo list items which show up in > outlook. The issue of course is that some of this data needs to be moved > to a more sophisticated project management program such as MLO, which > brings us back to the synchronization issues. > > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:49:14 AM UTC-4, robisme (Olivier R) wrote: >> >> Why don't you try the Android MLO app? >> >> >> Le mardi 18 mars 2014 06:56:14 UTC+1, AbeG a écrit : >>> >>> Just thought I'd start a thread about the best apps that people are >>> aware of to use with MLO. >>> >>> I recently started using a free app for android called Tasks & Notes >>> which lets you view, edit, and receive alerts for your outlook.comtasks. >>> I've been using it for a few weeks now and it seems to be working >>> pretty well with the desktop version of outlook and syncing data to MLO. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/08514569-5492-4ab1-ab8f-15e38ea8fd8c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
