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Using GTD with Evernote

Davorado — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:06:34 +0000

As a GTD – Getting Things Done fan and recent Evernote enthusiast I just had to share this How-To article by Ruud Hein on Using GTD with Evernote.

First, you must try Evernote. The free version gives you plently of time and space to test features from your desktop and mobile device. Once you fall in love you’ll be happy to pay the $5 per month for the premium version.

For personal information management, I’ve used Google Notebook, Google Docs, Diigo, and many other tools to manage simple clips and notes but I’ve always wanted something that was easily accessible across my desktop, laptop, iphone, and ipod touch regardless of the note type: document, voicememo, text, webclip etc. Evernote provides simple tags, a simple web browser bookmarklet, and a nifty iPhone iPod Touch bookmarklet too (see this valuable bookmarklet how-to from NU2MAC.)

If you really want to “get organized” and start getting more things done, consider the $80 investment and a good weekend of getting setup on GTD. The GTD System guides will also show you how to get setup based on several platforms including MS Outlook. Learn more about GTD at The David Allen Company.

The following 15 minute setup enables you to use Evernote as a frictionless GTD list application. Easy entry, no multiple notebooks required. Works with you, not against you.

The setup features:

notebook independent setup: enter and use to do notes anywhere, anytime

Project List

list aggregating all next actions

@ context lists

Waiting For

Someday/Maybe

5 “time required” levels & lists

done/audit list

toggle checkbox (/tag) to move items on/off the Someday/Maybe list

via Ruud Hein » Evernote GTD How To.

Now it’s your turn. Let me know how you are using Evernote, GTD, or some other personal information management method.

Jaiku iPhone Mobile Apps – Anyone?

Davorado — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:00:44 +0000

Many of the social media pros have left their Jaiku accounts and moved to new micro-blogging platforms including Twitter and FriendFeed. I was late to Jaiku but appreciated both the channels concepts for hashtags, the icons for identification (taxonomy of the posts) and per post comment thread features (much like FriendFeed) that made this tool look like a great place to camp.

Jaiku was acquired by Google almost two years ago and subsequently became JaikuEngine served from Google App Engine.

March 12, 2009 Jaikido Blog Post: JaikuEngine differs from Jaiku in a few key ways. Although core features like the website, SMS (in the US only) and IM bot still work, feed fetching and international SMS are no longer available. via Jaikido Blog

It took me a while to piece together all the details of what had become of Jaiku and I can remember searching with anticipation of finding a super Jaiku iPhone app. To my surprise, I found only one Jaiku app, mJaiku. I tried to make the mJaiku app work but unfortunately could never get the app fully connected and interactive with my Jaiku account on either my iPod Touch running iPhone 2.0 OS or my iPhone 3 G. As of the iPhone OS 3.0 update, the app is no longer available in the iTunes store.

The simplicity (much like Twitter) of Jaiku was the beauty to me. With just a few more UI elements to help organize information and provide taxonomy cues as an overlay to the microblog posts I was convinced this was a best of class tool. The service is active today and you can view the Jaiku Tour. I know that many iconic users have since left the site and many Jaiku users display lasts posts from months or years ago.

Today, if you want to use Jaiku on your mobile device, you can use m.jaiku.com.

March 13, 2009 Jaikido Blog Post: Yesterday, we flipped the switch and moved Jaiku to App Engine. Today, we are open sourcing the Jaiku code base under the Apache License 2.0. The code is available as JaikuEngine on Google Code Project Hosting as of now. Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine. via Jaikido Blog.

I’d like to know if anyone else is looking for or working on an open source JaikuEngine project and iPhone app? I’m very interested in the potential use of this application for magazine publishers and how both small groups of users and very large groups might take advantage of this tool to interact within a publisher’s media niche.

iPhone Apps Still Need Marketing

Davorado — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:32:29 +0000

iPhone apps are certainly hot. AdAge recently wrote an article about the developer of the Brushes iPhone App. The important take away is that there are many apps out there that don’t make money. Getting the app to the store is just the first step.

All iPhone Apps must also be 3.0 compatible. TechRadar

Increasingly, apps have to be supported by traditional marketing; otherwise they have little chance of making it to many iPhone screens. “The App Store is not a marketing vehicle; it is a distribution vehicle,” said Raven Zachary, president of digital creative firm Small Society.

via Mobile Marketing: Just Having an iPhone App Isn’t Enough – Advertising Age – Digital.