the world is your acorn

I think the last two months have been about as busy for me as I’ve ever been. Lately I’ve just been playing a lot of catchup, which includes procrastinating by spending time trying to find new systems with which to organize my life. So far I’ve ditched Remember the Milk and bought OmniFocus to help me get back into the GTD mindset. It’s also part of my effort to not rely so much on internet connectivity. The next step may be to reintroduce MailTags into my life to help get my inbox to zero. In the meantime, I’ve discovered BusySync, which probably does a ton of cool things but I’m right now just using it to sync my Google calendars to my iCal so I have them locally and can edit them locally. It’s changed my life in a few ways. I mean, it’s nice to have my calendar available and editable when I don’t have internet access. The other thing though, is that now I don’t always have to have a web browser open. That’s huge. It means my GMail and GReader aren’t always up and tempting me, and web browsing requires launching an application, which somehow keeps me from doing it as often. So anyway, this is feeling like a good start. In the next couple of weeks I think I will try and start making better use of the Notes and ToDo capabilities in Leopard and see how that goes.