FROM AN EMAIL INQUIRING ABOUT BULLETS
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I actually have another side question. I am a big fan of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done.” I recently was looking over a recommendation that you made of someone mentioning an encoded value you put next to someone’s number which told you “to return the call, regardless of rain or shine.” I was curious about your thoughts on personal work flow and automation. What silver bullets do you have in your arsenal that you would be willing to share?
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Ahhh, so it’s some of me silver bullets ye want, argh, do think them there bullets grow on trees, me bucky?
I haven’t found anything in the way of silver bullets. I too would love if GTD was easier than it is. Nothing is organized for GTD.
One think that I do is in LookOut, in the FileAs field for a contact, which you can’t see, is your name field says “XXXXyour last name,your first nameXXXX [LKDN] [HH3] [UNK] [ZO] [ZE]”. Now if you’ve read my stuff, you’ll know that “HH3” has special meaning (The codes all do but that extraneous for this email.):
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HH1 Gold (got interviews – the gold standard of hunters),
HH2 (Did great but never delivered an interview),
HH3 Average,
HH4 Below Average (talks a great game but delivered nothing while waste copious amounts of time),
HH5 Don’t bother (In some way really annoyed me, dropped the ball, does NOT play nice).
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You’d also see things like LKDN1-5, MCALUM1-5, and all sorts of other strange initials usually with 1-5 after them. The absence of a 1-5 means I haven’t formed an opinion.
I have played with all sorts of software. None has done thinks “my way”.
You’ll also notice that I have a large number of email accounts — probably in the neighborhood of 200. Each “activity” has its own email account. {That’s how I know, for example, that an ebay message on a networking account is prima facie a spam or phish.} And in LookOut, I group inboxes into priority buckets. So PriorityOne is family, friends, my lawyer, my accountant, and my broker … AND all the people who are PRIORITY ONE. After that I I have different priorities reflecting my interests. So my Jasper Jottings activities are Priority Six. Any way, long and short. I can look at my LookOut inboxes and NATURALLY spend my time on higher priority activities.
I use a little utility note2email http://www.note2email.com/ to send myself email which in the subject line I put “keys” that sort into the correct email box. I also use a utility called texter http://lifehacker.com/software//lifehacker-code-texter-windows-238306.php to handle all sorts of keystrings (i.e., email addresses; key codes for subject lines).
So no “silver bullets” just trying to get by.
l8r,
fjohn
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