Personal unit tests
As an increasingly serious practitioner of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system, I immediately appreciated this post on ‘personal unit tests‘.
I think 27 daily tests is probably far too many to begin with - this might explain the author’s 85% failure rate…. but then again, think of the glow of satisfaction he’ll experience when he passes all 27!
I think this appeals to me in the same way that GTD does - one real lesson from which is to keep taking the small steps….
Found via Phil Wilson’s blog.
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September 6th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Paul, I’m a fan of the GTD methodology too.
If you play in an environment in which Google Gadgets are useful you may be interested to know that I’ve written a Google Gadget to manage tasks in a GTD fashion. Due to popular request from people who have seen it on my Google home page I just open sourced it (thanks to the efforts ofg Gavin who is doing the leg work).
It’s functional, but has limitations and is certainly beta quality.
However, if you would like to play take a look at http://code.google.com/p/quimby/wiki/UsingQuimby
(note Quimby is Inspector Gadgets boss, the one who used to get caught in the self destruction of the mission info - that should be a warning for you at this stage of development
September 7th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Interesting - I’ll take a look. Currently, I’m actively beta-testing Omnifocus for the Mac - the OmniGroup applications are wonderful MacOSX apps and I have bought licenses for nearly all their stuff in the past.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Some more tools for time management: http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=stop_wasting_time_online;action=display;category=Work;from=rss