With this New Year's Day come from new dreams, of new objectives, new projects. It is one good moment to take new practices which will help to improve in the great directions that one set and to continue the noble resolutions solemnly stated at the time of the passage to the year 2009.

If you have a little imagination, then the task will have the enormous air, almost impossible: there is such an amount of work to realize, by where to start? We will thus need a plan, to build a diary in order to cut out all that in sections and surmountable stages. And for that, our best friend is of course the organisor!

In this article, I thus will speak to you about my system of organization, which has its defects and qualities, but which I hope for it, will give you ideas and will help to advance the schmilblick…

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David Allen, author of Getting Things Gives, announced recently on the site of his company the nearest publication of a new book baptized “Making It All Work: Winning At the Range off Work and Business off Life”.

It will be the obvious result of Getting Things Done. But where the first opus was especially confined to describe a management system of the daily tasks, the second will tackle the question of success more. The author will describe in particular how to become his own coach and to give the means of achieving his goals to gain with the play of the life.

You will find this book on Amazon.fr, but it will not be available before December 2008!

Ca made one moment that I wondered where to find a pen fine and who does not run who can hold in my wallet. And I believe that I have just found a good solution at Instructable.

In this tutoriel, one uses a refill of the famous pen Fisher Space PEN which one surrounds in a plastic sheath. Then one uses metal staples recovered on an old pen to hang it to the wallet.

Here the address of the tutoriel: Make has $5.00 “Space PEN” for your wallet

You will be able to find the same refills sold in France at arbreaplumes.com, but with 8 euros the unit. If you find less expensive, make us leaves there in the comments.

Throughout this year of blogging, I presented various software to you which makes it possible to be better organized, to improve his productivity and to solve small daily worries related to Windows.

I generally tried to focus me on the most useful software based on my daily use of Windows. But nevertheless the desires change, and to measurement of the experiment, one realizes that certain software does not offer the hoped added-value or can be replaced by others, more effective.

I thus decided to offer to you today an assessment concerning all the software that I presented to you during this year, and even in preview certain software of which I did not speak yet but which is worth the turning. For each software, you will find a short description and a comment on the personal use that I make some.

In order to help you to determine the most interesting software, I carefully sorted this list according to the frequency of employment, which is a good indicator of the utility of the software.

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The news fell this afternoon on the forum GTD-Fr : the book worship on the personal organization Getting Things Done will be available in French from here next March to the LeDuc editions.

The title of this work: “To organize itself to succeed”. Not what to whip a cat but it is simple and conci, with the image of the English title.

According to Jupiter, the author of the news, information emanates directly from the company of David Allen, in answer to his email.

Then will Getting Things Done make a paperboard among French-speaking people? Appointment in 2 months!

Being given the flood of information to which one has access since the advent of Internet, it becomes increasingly important for each one to use a management software of the personal informations or Personal Information Manager (PIM).

This type of software is generally composed of several modules which make it possible to manage the emails, the lists of things to be made, the appointments as well as the personal notes. Most known are Outlook, Lotus Notes or Essential PIM. In fact software wants to be all-in-a but one is often obliged to use certain software separated for complémenter their functionalities.

The goal of this article is to gather the characteristics of the current software to imagine what would be the PIM of the future: that which would enable us to organize ourselves in an intuitive and effective way to obtain the maximum of our base of personal informations.

Let us give him already a name with this software, why not Perfect PIM?

For me, Perfect PIM would be the marriage successful between 7 software which I currently use in an intensive way:

• EssentialPIM for the management of the notes and the calendar
• Gmail for the emails
• MindManager/FreeMind for the mental charts
• Website Watcher for the aspiration of files Web and the day before
• Zoundry for the edition of articles of blog perhaps [some will find this choice strange but I remain persuaded that in the future, each one will have its blog]
• Tudumo for the management of the tasks
• SciRal Consistency for the recurring tasks

Here what would be its main features:

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The author of Tudumo recently made me discover a video very interesting showing the possibilities of Things: a todo innovative list which follows method GTD under MAC.

I noted several innovations compared to Tudumo:

• the logbook: it is a history of the finished tasks. When you do not want to see any more the tasks which you notched, it is enough to make them slip into the logbook.
• areas: they are kinds of spheres of activity which include several projects and tasks.
• the management of the tasks of the day: one slips there all the tasks which one intends to carry out today. Personally, under Tudumo, I use the same approach thanks to a tag! today.
• hierarchical tags: one can give a name to a whole of tags, for example “context” for the tags @home, @work,… It is possible also to filter according to this whole of tags.

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Did you know that there exists adhesive with post-its?

If you have some enough of the yellow and square post-its, you will be able thus to stick and at will take off your personal notes and other objects without leaving of trace. It is enough to apply a fine layer to the back and the turn is played.

Here perhaps a good way of pushing those which kept a heart of child to be organized more effectively.

According to Lifehacker.com, you will find also this kind of accessory for the equivalent of 2 dollars under the Scotch mark.

To announce small short you that David Allen will publish a weekly article in connection with method GTD on the blog The Huffington Post.

Here the first article: Getting Things Gives.

[via lifehacker.com]

American David Allen is a filled man. Thanks to the method Getting Things Gives, he managed to fill with enthusiasm crowd and to make thrive his own company founded in 1996.

Let us recall it still, Getting Things Done is a whole of councils which help you to keep the control of your daily tasks without the stress.

I propose to you today to interest us in the history of this man and the birth of GTD thanks to an excellent article of CNNMoney.com: To see the continuation”

This is the 3rd shutter of the file on hipster PDA. After having seen how this organisor paper is able advantageously to replace your PDA electronic and reviewed several solutions to conceive yours, we are interested today in the organization of the cards.

The article is based largely on the method Getting Things Done and the Pile site off Cards Index, like several other sources of inspiration through the Web…
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In the first shutter of this file, we saw why it is judicious to consider the employment of the organiseurs paper such as hipster PDA while at the same time the electronic organiseurs have the wheel in motion.

This article is the obvious result with a small guide to make the turn of the various possible solutions to conceive a hipster PDA. One will base oneself here on the various models which one meets through the fabric…

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That already made nearly 3 years that Merlin Mann revealed its organisor paper: the hipster PDA and the number of its followers largely progressed. I was recently impressed to see it leaving it his pocket in recent the video Inbox Zero. Also I decided to begin a file entirely devoted to the hipster PDA of which here the first part…
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I subscribed a few days ago with the newsgroup GTDfr.

It is a place of exchange to discuss Getting Things Done which, let us recall it, is a method which proposes to help you to organize you in order to carry out your projects more effectively.

The list was created it there has a little more than one year per Patrice Legoux and enjoys a certain success, with several members of the French-speaking blogosphère. The blog #doesNotUnderstand: recently organized besides writes an article on a meeting of the group in Paris.

While the book Getting Things Done was still not translated into French, it is a good manners to share your experiments and to keep the contact in your native tongue.

You will be able to be registered here.

Excellent page GTD Mastery 100 proposes 100 stages to climb the levels of the productivity while following the method Getting Things Done.

And to make some profit the French-speaking people, I propose to you a translation of all the points.

I was amongst other things pressed on the glossary of wikipédia to establish an equivalence of the narrower terms:
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