Total, Relaxed Organization, The Blog

Trog Bar displays your meeting agendas automatically, at the right times, if you process tasks and appointments correctly. It’s easy once you get the hang of it. Here’s how to make it work.

First, remember that Total, Relaxed Organization and GTD teach you to assign contexts and/or categories to your tasks when you process them. We refer to this as tagging. With that in mind, we’re ready for the rules for agendas in Trog Bar. [Read More...]

I love my Mac. It’s faster than my PC, it’s prettier than my PC, and it’s smaller. It’s not as compatible though. This really becomes an issue in regards to mobile devices. Unless you have an iPhone or iPod, it’s not likely to natively sync to your Mac.

The answer to this dilemma is third party software. But which should you choose? There’s plenty of software claiming to easily and conveniently synchronize your device with mac but which is best?

It must be the best-kept secret of Microsoft Outlook.

Many of my coaching clients are floored when I show them how to create tasks from email in Outlook. They say, “Wow, that was worth the whole $900 [cost of Premium Remote Coaching]” or “Nobody in our organization knew how to do that!” That last one came from a brilliant guy in a huge firm with a lot of IT support staff. It seems easy to some, but others don’t know it’s even possible.

Honestly, tips like this help, but they aren’t the real point of Priacta’s coaching and training. Principles, like those we teach in Total, Relaxed Organization, are invariant and apply anywhere. Tools, on the other hand, are just helps for applying principles effectively, and tips are usually just smart ways to use tools. Tools change, but principles are permanent. (See our 4-faceted training model for an idea of how they interrelate.)

So here’s the free, $900* answer. Hopefully this tip will help you work faster, so you can focus on more important things, like really getting control of your time and tasks. [Read More...]

Change is hard. So how do you stack the deck in your favor when you’re trying to make and sustain productivity changes (like learning Total, Relaxed Organization or GTD, or breaking an unproductive time use habit)? A slick, free, and effective tool called RescueTime is your powerful ally in changing time use. As a productivity coach, I love this tool, both for myself and my clients.

Run, don’t walk, and install RescueTime now. I mean it. [Read More...]

It’s hard to work in the GTD (Getting Things Done) world and not at least HEAR of “Remember The Milk”. As one of the leading Web/GTD software products available, Remember the Milk (RTM) has an unrestrained community spanning the globe. Applications for RTM include the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and all major operating systems. Before examining RTM, I had three questions in my mind: What makes it so popular? How well does it support GTD and TRO (Total, Relaxed Organization)? What does “Remember the Milk” mean?

Although I never did find out why they call it “Remember the Milk”, I did find the answer to my other two questions. So, after being subjected to a slew of tests, configurations and enduring a great deal of poking and prodding, RTM has now been officially reviewed by The Resident Geek.