Thank you for your perspective! I have a company owned laptop with BYOD for my phone outlook synchs to my phone via MobileIron.
Outlook on a laptop is a great GTD platform as it is portable.
I average 250-350 emails per day. many of which have to be turned into actions or delegated and tracked
A lot of people, including me are in that boat. With so much “incoming fire”, I mean @ inboxes coming from email, it is a necessity in having your GTD platform on Outlook (or similar platform).
If I was in your position, I would use my employers’ assigned laptop to run my personal email (as a separate account), calendar (you can run multiple calendars on Outlook with a unified view), and tasks (you can run multiple Outlook task lists that are unified in the To-Do list. I’d do a one-way synch to put this all in an accessible cloud storage and ap.
You could even set-up your Outlook file of personal data (the *.pst) to run of an external thumb drive on a USB port. The premise would be that the thumb drive is your property containing your data. If you step-away from your computer, you take the thumb drive with you.
I am also a private data is private and don't trust cloud systems at all so I would put personal information onto a computer that is controlled by someone else. I've been in places where when people were let go everything was locked down and you could never get to your personal data.
Agreed. It is getting harder to keep data private. If it’s your data on your USB stick in your pocket, then it is yours. (I had an interesting issue with this once. Look up “color of intent” in a legal dictionary if you are bored.) Some Google AdSense banner ads indicate that Google has gotten into my personal non-Gmail email. The kicker was a road-trip my wife and I took. 10 hours driving over two days. There were AdSense banner ads the next day of what my wife and I talked about on our trip! My point is that unless you are going to explicitly keep data off-line and transfer it through USB drives, it will find itself in the hands of the GAFA - Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.