First off I would like to say thank you to everyone who posts in these forums. I dont' know where I would be without the ability to collaborate and bounce ideas with other avid users. Which in lies my current questions; Managing work and personal projects.... here is what i mean..
About a year ago, I was using my work laptop (probably not the best idea) to manage everything. I decided that it was time to seperate the two and this is when i found GTD. what I like about GTD is the ability to manage all of your projects at the blink of an eye however I have been running into a problem I was hoping you all could help me solve.
In the transition of separating my work and personal projects, I have realized that it is a very difficult thing to do especially within a work electronic environment. If one were managing every project via a spreadsheet or paper, the principles of GTD are the same however within an electronic environment, I have found that it is very difficult to make GTD fit with my working style.
I use a Mac and Omnifocus my GTD process. however, at work I am on a PC with Windows 7 and Outlook 2010. The biggest things are the personal tasks that say, need or could be done while at work. I like the ability to get to my office in the morning and see all the tasks that I have to do whether they are personal or work. Also, as both Omnifocus and Outlook both operate under different workflow systems, I still havent fully grasped the idea of how to effectively adopt seperate processes to suit my working style.
I was wondering if anyone has run into the issue of trying to leverage different technologies to manage different contexts (i.e. @work tasks) and if they have, what process look like for effectively handling handling all tasks yet tracking them within seperate processes? Thanks again for the feedback! I've been racking my brain around this for too long!
-John
About a year ago, I was using my work laptop (probably not the best idea) to manage everything. I decided that it was time to seperate the two and this is when i found GTD. what I like about GTD is the ability to manage all of your projects at the blink of an eye however I have been running into a problem I was hoping you all could help me solve.
In the transition of separating my work and personal projects, I have realized that it is a very difficult thing to do especially within a work electronic environment. If one were managing every project via a spreadsheet or paper, the principles of GTD are the same however within an electronic environment, I have found that it is very difficult to make GTD fit with my working style.
I use a Mac and Omnifocus my GTD process. however, at work I am on a PC with Windows 7 and Outlook 2010. The biggest things are the personal tasks that say, need or could be done while at work. I like the ability to get to my office in the morning and see all the tasks that I have to do whether they are personal or work. Also, as both Omnifocus and Outlook both operate under different workflow systems, I still havent fully grasped the idea of how to effectively adopt seperate processes to suit my working style.
I was wondering if anyone has run into the issue of trying to leverage different technologies to manage different contexts (i.e. @work tasks) and if they have, what process look like for effectively handling handling all tasks yet tracking them within seperate processes? Thanks again for the feedback! I've been racking my brain around this for too long!
-John
