Getting Things Done with Chandler
By Steffen Müller. Licensed under the Creative Commons License
To improve my productivity, I'm trying to follow David Allen's recommendations about "Getting Things Done". It now seems that I finally have found a piece of software which fits my needs: Chandler, the so called note-to-self organizer.
Inspired by the productivity session of Dmitry Dulepov at the TYPO3 Developer Days 2008, I decided to improve my personal workflow. In his speech, Dmitry referred to a book of David Allen called Getting Things Done. In spite of my usual aversion for pseudo psycho manage your life properly guides, I ordered the book.
Trying to apply my reading to real life, I soon realized one problem in my paperless home office: the software tools I was using were quite limited to apply Allen's propositions.
Today I stumbled upon a news article at T3N about Chandler. This note-to-self organizer seems to integrate the Getting Things Done concept. I have just finished the installation and my first impression is satisfactory:
- The user interface looks intuitive and familiar with its three columns layout.
- The clear use of colors gives you a quick overview about important actions.
- Most important: I was able to recover the "do it, defer it, delegate it" pradigm at once.
The next days I'll try to find out how good it really fits my needs...
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