Comments on: Autofocus vs. GTD

By: Garrett

Garrett — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:29:22 +0000

Thanks for sharing this amazing article post. Sharing is caring! From time to time I look back what I had experienced in the past few weeks and what I did. I want to check if I have tried to stay organized and in which areas I had difficulties to stay organized. That helps me a lot to adjust a few things in order to run my daily life even smoother. Since I use Outlook to download my emails from my various online accounts I have the advantage that I can use the add-in Email Sorter Wizard that helps me to organize my email. One can define rules to make Email Sorter Wizard sort and file incoming and outgoing emails. Great article and I’m sure people will profit from it.

By: Adara

Adara — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:20:27 +0000

Thank you for this post. It gives much insight. My experience is: To stay on top of daily work and to stay organized is quite a challenge. To stay organized with my email inbox I use Email Sorter Wizard, an Outlook add-in, a low cost solution for organizing email. It is easy to define rules and the add-in is organizing all my emails. I am glad that I read this article and I really enjoyed it.

By: AutoFocus 2 - 10 days in | PowerSecretsForLife.com

AutoFocus 2 - 10 days in | PowerSecretsForLife.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:32:25 +0000

[...] is described on Mark’s site and I did an earlier comparison of it to David Allen’s GTD here. AF2 is designed to resolve some of the issues that have been observed about AF. Mark [...]

By: CC

CC — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:54:43 +0000

Hi,

Nice article. I have just started using the autofocus system yesterday. I had never heard of any technique like that before, I’m new to these kind of productivity-enhancing techniques. All I gotta say is that wow, it truly works great. I got one notebook for the job and one for my personal life. So far so good, I’ve never felt so good doing so many important things! It really helps fighting procrastination.

Have a good one!

By: admin

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:03:06 +0000

I’ve never had a single Agenda item list work for me with GTD or Autofocus. For meeting Agenda items I typically keep lists for each standing meeting of items I chair or regularly attend. This might be for weekly staff meetings, one-on-one meetings, etc. For one-off agenda items I normally just keep those in my regular Autofocus list or “Work” or “Home” contexts in GTD.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:13:50 +0000

Thanks for this interesting comparison.
I’ve tried Autofocus, too, but come back to GTD for the following reason:
- I prefer to have a digital list on my Palm Treo
- I make an extensive use of Agenda and Call list. I don’t want to have my Agenda items scattered among many pages
After using Autofocus, I created a personalized view on Outlook to see task ordered by creation date, without showing contexts. This way, I can see my Agenda items when I am out of office (on my Palm) but I can see all the Work related tasks when I am in front of PC in the office.
How do you manage Agenda items now?
Andrea