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Alexey Prohorenko  //  I create and build new tech products. There's nothing I can't do.

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Mar 1 / 11:49pm

Keeping it simple and getting things done #gtd #simple #todo #daily #productivity

In attempt to increase my productivity I am jumping away from Google Calendar to something more simple and actually more *productive*. Don't get me wrong, I *do* use Google Apps for personal email now and contacts, and was using Google Calendar as well, but it just doesn't keep me up-to-date very well. Why? Simple enough, it's more a tool for "bookmarks" of events. Instead, my life is full of simple TODOs. Do this, do that, here and there. Daily todos. I need to be able to take a look of my todo list and see what's there for today, and may be tomorrow, or if something is undone - how bad I delayed with it. Google Calendar (and any other calendar) -- they show me today. If it's tomorrow already, my yesterday's events are in the past. Even if they are left undone. This doesn't work well for me -- as I have to re-organize the calendar then. Which is time consuming. Means I am less productive. That's why I decided to explore todo solutions which follow GTD principle. So, my choice is ToodleDo now in combination with TaskJot Pro, which is a Blackberry application (ToodleDo has also iPhone app, by the way). I do not expect too much from it, but it helps to accomplish my initial goal. I know there is also Remember The Milk, but it's giving less and pushes about upgrading to Pro version much more actively than I would like to be pushed, so why bother?
So far so good, I actually feel an improvement of my daily process of following todos, so it's the good thing.