Good post - I’m always surprised that people won’t drop the $20/month for email access on their phone. The opportunity cost is much higher.

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John,

Do you mark off your tasks somehow with your phone in the system you described? Or do you have to mark them off through the tracks interface?

- Neal

I have to mark them off in the tracks interface.

But, when you use rss through viigo to view your tasks on your phone, whenever you actually look at a task it un-bolds it. That’s how I know I’ve accomplished something. Normally I don’t need to open up a task in viigo to know what it is, so I don’t open it until I have accomplished it.

John, nice podcast. In my GTD system I’ve kept a list of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks which seem to correspond with your reminders/affirmations/goals. I like the idea of having them emailed to me so I don’t have to remember to check them. I’m going to set that up.

You mentioned that you have your notes from Conference emailed to you every week. How long do you keep them? I thought it might be interesting to keep each individual note until you felt like it was a part of you. The other option would be to keep them for 6 months. I’m going to add that to my system.

P.S. If you do a followup podcast or post, I’d be interested in hearing about your affirmations — how you chose them, how often you review them, what effect they’ve had, etc.

John, nice post/cast. I’ve been trying to get into GTD for a couple of years now and getting over the initial sort is real tough. Once I’ve setup I think I’ll implement it similarly to how you’ve done it with tracks. I haven’t used GCal (I’m all in Outlook) so I need to see how the calendar side of things will work out.

Alastair.

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