[ale] Personal Productivity Software

Thompson Freeman tfreeman at tfreeman.vnet.net
Mon Aug 19 13:11:56 EDT 1996


On Aug 19, 12:21am, David Ritchie wrote:
> Subject: Re: [ale] Personal Productivity Software
> >
> > My appologies if this is the wrong forum to ask.
> >
> > For years, I have been looking for, and not finding, software to support
the
> > individual with five to fifty separate and mutating projects on his plate
at
> > any one time. A ToDo list manager doesn't quite seem the right thing to use
> > (especially if the individual is part of a team or group, although that is
not
<<snip>>
> Hmmm... in all seriousness, it needs to be portable, you need to write
> or type down *everything* that you need to do, and you probably need (if
> you are like me) to practice saying 'no' more often.... Good luck!
> Do you use something like a daytimer currently?
>
>
> -- Dave Ritchie
>-- End of excerpt from David Ritchie

Well - saying "no" more often would help, but it would tend to cut into making
some $$$ to spend on this Linux habit! 8-). I know what you mean, tho.

Yes - I do use a daytimer/calender & a derived pad of paper with a ToDo. And a
modest number of lists glued/taped/tacked up around the house to help out the
other lists. Still not quite in the right  ballpark, or I'm actually too
intellectually/emotionally crippled to ever become organized (a possiblity).

One use I easily see for such software is printing the day's ToDo to clip into
the DayTimer. Under Linux, one obvious extension would be to link into a pager
for appointments, but that would be simply gravy.

Truely, however, about half the things that I'm dropping at the moment occur or
should be done at or near the computer anyway.

Thanks for the imput tho.

To be who one is, is not to be someone else.






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