Getting Things Done with Google Apps and Do.com
I was chatting with @h4rrydog a couple of days ago about the best tools to collaborate “internally”, i.e.: between ourselves and with ad hoc teams of other people. Every man and his dog has their preferred workflow but I just setup one that’s so delightful I can’t help but share it.
The setup is to use a Google Apps email address (n.b.: #) with Do.com. The workflow is to use the little gadget Do.com installs into your gmail interface to turn emails into tasks. The task title is autocompleted with the email subject. There’s a small link to populate the task description with the email body and autocomplete widgets to assign the task to a person, a project and a due date.
It’s zen. Try it a couple of times. Headspace zero.
Guess like a Grandmaster
I’ve been having an ongoing debate recently with @tav about productivity. It stemmed from my sending him the Rework book for his birthday, in yet another quixotic attempt to steer him away from his self-imposed perfectionism.
In this debate, I found myself rehashing the received wisdom about productivity. You know the terminology. Release early release often (ooh err missus), lean, agile, iterate.
Business Development with Version Control
Over the last few years, I’ve moved from making websites to selling them. As a proper geek, I’m loaded up with concepts like abstraction. Yet, when I’m writing proposals, I copy and paste.
