So i am almost 50% through the GTD book and have a massive pile of crap in my "IN" box. I did some brainstorming on applications trying to find the "best" app. Unfortunately it does not exist. I settled on trying to use Outlook + MS To-Do as there is a guide and it did not require me adding a new App into my portfolio. However, MS sucks as usual in that they are unwinding integration between Outlook and OneNote since they are pushing the native App now. My dilemma is I have so many apps that I need to use for work:
Outlook - Email
Outlook - Calendar
ConnectWise - Service Tickets & Time Sheet Entry (Syncs to Outlook Calendar)
OneNote - For "notes"
ITGlue - For Official documentation
Based on this it seems to make sense to stick with Outlook since most everything is connected to it. In addition creating tasks from emails is simple and creating calendar events from tasks is also easy (although nothing is linked - it just makes copies). To-Do is ok but does not support categories and only full URL's transfer correctly between Outlook and To-Do.
My next issue comes from the "Agenda" concept which is how I came across the GTD method in the first place. Many of my Tasks or Projects are typically mine to do. However I have (2) individuals I meet with weekly and often my next action required me talking to that person.
I need an intelligent way of Creating Tasks and linking them to the person I need to speak to. Based on Outlook, the only way I see in doing this is creating specific Agenda Task folders in Outlook for these two individuals and dragging each task there so i know to talk to them. It just seems too clunky (compared to the interfaces on GTDnext, NirvanaHQ, TickTick, etc).
Also for sticking so Outlook is since that calendar syncs to ConnectWise I have to live by it. (sigh)
Any thoughts would be appreciated...