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Location aware to-do items

A blog. Yes I have a blog. How interesting.

Now that I’ve drunk the “Getting things Done” kool-aid I have an idea:

Location aware ToDo list sorting. Use the GPS features of cellphones etc to sort your NextActions list by location … so that you can glance down to see what you should be doing in a particular place. You could also set reminders to beep you when you walk past the library (Return book) or post office (post letter).

How did I come to be using the Getting things Done book. Well you see I’m not usually one for the self-help books but I really was sucking at organizing my various projects etc. And I’ve only ever changed one long term thing about myself that I didn’t like: I no longer bite my nails. How? I completely obsessed over them, cutting, filing and buffing on a daily schedule. Whenever I’d go to bite I’d file or buff instead.

Now I figure the only way to get organized is to slavishly follow a system. And after I’d made that decision I was just waiting for a system to offer itself up to me. And GTD was sweeping the blogs at the time so it was such an obvious match ;)

So far so good. But Sam’s club didn’t have one of them auto labelling machines. Bugger. Lots of folders though ;)