Robert Scobe, a self-proclaimed “tech evangelist” (his Twitter account has nearly 60,000 followers) is climbing back onto the GTD wagon. He’s played with it before, but seems to be giving it another good shot.
As always, Scoble has documented his time with Michael Dolan (a David Allen Co. coach) via video. Here is a glimpse of what they did:
Scoble is running everything through Outlook, which is a popular way to manage GTD. If he posts more videos on how he’s getting things running again, I’ll be sure to post them here.
Google has just released a new tool to sync your Google Calendar to your iPhone or Windows Mobile device, and it’s pretty slick!
For my iPhone, I had previously been using the excellent (but not free) “SaiSuke” app to handle calendaring. The problem was that you had to manually sync it, and it took a few minutes to sync every time, even over wi-fi. The Google solution does it via “push” in the background, so you’re always up to date!
In my case, this works out great. I use Nozbe to handle my actions, which is tied to my Google Calendar. Any action that has a specific due date shows up in Google Calendar for that date. Now those automatically sync to my phone. It’s working very well so far.
The only issue I had is an iPhone limitation — you can only have ONE Exchange account on your phone, and this requires it. In my case, my work e-mail was already connected via Exchange. However, I didn’t sync calendar or contacts through it, so I switched it to IMAP and then install Google via Exchange.
Finally, here is a short video showing how it works:
It’s finally here! Search for “Nozbe” in the app store and you’ll find it. You can read our brief write-up about it’s features, but we’ll be posting more once we’ve had our hands on it for a few days.
