September 15th, 2008 I have an awful short-term memory. I have a tendency to forget names, small tasks, and sometimes very important information. This happens at work, at home, everywhere.

I’ve learned to cope with this shortcoming over time by using lots of paper, and more recently, lots of cool technology to help me remember things and stay organized. For a while now, I’ve been using OmniFocus, a GTD application for the Mac. GTD is basically the concept of dumping all of your thoughts and ‘to-do’ items into a master list, sorting that list into prioritized tasks and/or projects, and then of course, getting things done. Lots of folks take this stuff too seriously, but I really do think that it helps a scatterbrained mess like myself stay focused.

In fact, over the past year or so I have become very dependent on such a system to keep me on task at work. Anyway, OmniFocus has broken my heart for the last time. Basically, when the iPhone started allowing software to be written for it, OmniFocus was a perfect candidate to have a version that could sync to your desktop app.

You see, one of the worst things about having a software based GTD solution is that the list lives on your computer, and many of the times that ideas or tasks pop into my head … well, I’m not near a computer to key it in. That would lead me to email tasks to myself from my phone, which worked (OF scans your emails for keywords and adds items to your projects if they contain certain phrases or words), but wasn’t perfect. The iPhone version of OmniFocus closed the loop, and made entering tasks a snap. It synced over the web tasks, due dates, the locations of projects, and much more.

I could juggle all of the crap I had to do at work, at SquareOne, and at home. Life was organized and good. All was right in the world, until the forgotten fact that OmniFocus 1.1 is alpha software reared its ugly head.

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