After reading David Allens “Getting Things Done” and having his system change my life I have stumbled upon/created a system for personal productivity that uses technology to make me more productive.

If you’re not paying the $20/month to be able to do email from your smartphone, I think you’re wasting the biggest productivity tool you have. I’ve always said that outside of being a phone, most pda/smartphones are just toys. They look cool and sound great, but in the end, they’re just eye candy. Toys to play games with in your down time and keep people’s contacts in.

Here’s my podcast of How To Turn Your Smartphone Into A Million Dollar Tool instead of just having a phone and a toy.

Or you can play it here:

The website I use and talk about in the audio is http://tracks.tra.in.
I also use Google calendar.

Here is the php script I use to email myself the todo’s.

Here’s a video of instructions:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=816501744180957431

[tags]gtd, getting things done, gtd online, blackberry, smartphone[/tags]

It is SOOOO well done.

Previously I always used google maps mobile to do any 411 lookups I needed but from now on, it’s Berry411.

The 10 searches I’ve done so far have given me

• better results than google maps
• faster results than google maps
• more options than google maps
• more information than google maps

It remembers your addresses and automatically searches for things near them.

It has a database of words so when I typed in “pan” it gave me “panda express” as an option of what I wanted to search for.

It lets me search yellow pages, white pages, google, weather, shopping, movies, sports, all with one click!

Not to mention the (currently) 95 plugins for it that make searching all kinds of stuff easier.

Definitely a must have for a blackberry.

[tags]blackberry, blackberry applications, berry411[/tags]