HDR photography has become a popular hobby and craze among many digital photography enthusiasts in the recent times. It is not that you need a high end Digital SLR to shoot these kind of pictures. Mobile phones with high quality cameras like the Nokia N95/N82 can help in creating some amazing HDR photographs. TheNokiaBlog has […]
If you are a GTD fan and purchased a Nokia N95 (or any S60 phone) you may be regretting your purchase now. That is because of the poor PIM implementation on these phones when compared to platforms like Windows Mobile and Palm. One of the main issues is that categories do not sync when you […]
Some people have predicted that 2008 will be the year of information overload. Why not start the year with a lighter load?
Do these NOW:
The above 3 steps will take about 10 minutes to complete, but will save you hours of time in 2008.
Happy new year!
Related: Coping with information overload.
RSS, while a great way to pull content from several places to one single application, off late is becoming a burden for most people. RSS, kind of becomes a habit and one keeps adding plenty of feeds to the already overflowing reader. For example, it almost takes one full day to finish all the news that are consolidated by my feed reader. Many people take pride in saying that they have 400+ feeds subscribed in their favorite reader application!
Here are some of the ways to optimize your time spent on your RSS reader.
If you have any other suggestions, you can leave them in comments below.
I have been on and off in using GTD for almost 2 years now. For some reason, I have never been able to come up with a GTD adaptation that I can stick to and follow for a long time. For a while, I used MS Outlook with various Pocket PC PIM replacements like Agenda Fusion and Pocket Informant. Most time was spent on perfecting the system rather than following it. This is one of the dangers of the GTD system.
Being off the system for a while, my "stuff" is all spread out now. In order to collect them and get things done, I thought I would rather use a software or application that is already customized for GTD so that I don't waste my time in coming up with my own "system". As I have migrated to S60 OS (Used in my Nokia N95) from Windows Mobile, there is a new problem because the PIM capabilities of S60 platform leave a lot to be desired. Unfortunately, the categories from Outlook do not sync with S60, so the Outlook method is highly ineffective. I started looking out for a web based solution, which should also have a PDA friendly web page. I came across iCommit, which is a decent enough application, but seems to be ridden with bugs. The summary view did not show the entries that I created. There were several other solutions, but none of them could properly work on PDAs.
I found a commercial solution called Nozbe, which seems to fit the bill. It has a simple yet powerful adaptation of the GTD system. You can create Contexts, Projects, Next actions, lists etc., and hook them all together. They also have an iPhone and PDA friendly webpages, which look very useful. The only annoyance with this site is that it has some big nag screens and affiliate promotion links strewn all over. The free access is very limited in that you can only create 5 projects and only one additional context apart from 10 other predefined ones. But still I am planning to continue using this for a couple of more days to see how effective it is for me.
Do any of you know of any free solutions that have a nice interface for desktop and the PDA phone? I am ok with hosting the web app on my own server too. Please let me know in the comments.
