Total, Relaxed Organization, The Blog

It’s been several months since our last post, and you’re probably wondering what happened to the Resident Geek. He served up several piping hot portions of GTD product reviews for you, and then, as mysteriously as he came, he vanished! Right?

Not to worry. There are big things in store. Click here to read more about what happened to the Geek, and find out what’s to become of his blog.

Check it out! We’ve added CRM software Relenta to our GTD Software Comparison list. Relenta’s founder and CEO, Dmitri Eroshenko, is a master networker (and a really good guy, too). After crossing paths with Dmitri a while back, it was really only a matter of time before Priacta and Relenta worked together as a team. We looked into Relenta’s CRM system, and this is what we saw: a mother lode of potential. Click here to read the whole review.

Sometimes the typical time and task software just doesn’t cut it. In the business world, large and small businesses alike use a breed of software called CRM (Customer Relationship Management), which makes it easier to reach out to your customers and manage sales. Not surprisingly, this involves tasks, appointments and the like.

There is a massive pool of CRM software to choose from. Some are well worth the time and money, but many do not even support GTD or TRO. When your main workflow is sales, this is a big deal. Since CRM is huge need for many of our customers, we started searching.

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.

There are over 6 Billion people on the planet and they all want to get the most out of their short lives. Not surprisingly, a whole slew of tools, gadgets, and programs have cropped up out of this huge demand. Unfortunately, this also means there’s a lot of junk to be filtered through. This post marks the beginning of a project to document and review the software and tools used by people around the world to get things done.

The first such review is for software that I personally use each day: Agenda Fusion 8.

Starting Monday, I will be reviewing GTD and GTD-ish Software.
Software will be rated on:
1. User Interface (Easy to learn?)
2. Functionality (Features, Compatibility)
3. Conformity with GTD Principles (See here)

What do we need from you? Tell us what your favorite piece of GTD(ish) software is and why. We will begin our reviews based on this. These reviews will be posted regularly and I encourage readers to post comments on their own experiences with the software.

Please feel free to recommend software not yet listed on our GTD Software Comparison Page. Thank you!