December 11th, 2006 in Lifehack

GTD Coach on Google Tools

Kelly Forrister, a facilitator and coach at David Allen & Co., shares her GTD system with Google tools. As she is a fan of Google software, she tries to integrate many tools, like Google Personalized Homepage, Spreadsheet, Calendar, and Mail into her workflow. A notable implementation is her Google Mail setup:

For Google Mail, I’ve been testing out a pretty straightforward approach. I created two key pending lables:
@Actions and @Waiting For
….then a label for each current project. When processing mail, if something is actionable or waiting, it gets either the @Action or @Waiting label as well as the Project label if it’s related to a current project. Every email gets archived after it gets labeled to maintain zero in the Inbox (because it takes less effort to work from a place of zero in the Inbox than to keep anything in the Inbox as your only reminder.) For non-actionable stuff that needs to be saved, it simply gets archived.

GTD and Google Tools – [David Allen & Co.]

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shiki says on December 11th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Nice and useful tip about the mail, thanks.
Tim says on December 11th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
I highly recommend the Firefox plug-in, GTDGmail for those using GMail -
http://www.gtdgmail.com/
Dan says on April 17th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Here is an example of a JavaScript activity designer.
It can also be downloaded from http://www.netfxlive.com/api/jsDesignerSample.js
You can integrate any Google gadget, write your own gadget, integrate a JS calendar or other web components.
Note that your gadget can even be hosted on your site. For example in the code below, GetToolboxIcon returns an image form netfxlive.com. Your activity can refer an image from your site. This way you customize design time behaviour of your activity and you have total control over what you want to do.
For example you can inject a calendar in PropertyEllispesClick method. This way, your calendar will appear if user will click ellipses button in property browser. New selected date value should be returned by this method.
Now, when you upload your activity on NetFxLive usind Upload function, there is a file field for JS designer. Specify your file and click Upload.