MSP GTD Study Group Mondays!

May 30, 2008

Survey results are in, so we’re ready to get going.

Monday or Tuesday evening, once a month was the clear winner, with location preferences all over the map.

So…

Second Monday of the month, 6:00 PM.

We’ll alternate between Minneapolis and St Paul, to even out the driving for everyone.

Our first meeting will then be
June 9, 2008
6:00 PM
Common Roots Cafe
2558 Lyndale Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55405

For our first meeting, let’s introducing ourselves and our personal systems. Plan to talk about what capture tools you use, how your track your tasks and projects, what contexts do you find helpful, and so forth.

Common Roots has a small but well-chosen selection of beer and wine, N/A beverages, good food, and free wireless access.

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Save Time Taking Screenshots

May 27, 2008

I’m still playing around with Skitch, but so far it’s shaved at least 5 minutes off every screenshot I’ve been taking (and yes, this means new documentation is on the way for you!).

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Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

It’s a free Mac download, and well worth a try. You just click the “snap” icon on the display screen, use the crosshairs to select your capture, and you’re able to edit and annotate that screenshot within a second.

Clearing annotations to create different notes on the same screen capture is a simple button click, too.

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Twin Cities GTD Study Group

May 22, 2008

We’ve been getting questions about local resources to meet other people interested in using David Allen’s Getting Things Done method for personal productivity. So we’re happy to announce we’ll be organizing a (tool-neutral) GTD study group. Meet up and talk about your favorite tips for implementing GTD, how to adapt GTD to your work situation, and if you’re new to the system, where to get started.

To vote on your preferred times and locations, please fill out a quick (less than 2 minute…) 3 question survey so we can find the best time to schedule to accommodate as many people as possible.

Click Here to take survey.

We’ll leave the survey up until May 28, 2008, and plan to set up the first meeting in June. Thursday, May 29th I’ll pass on the results and announce our first meeting here on the blog.

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Multiple email address support

May 21, 2008

We’ve just pushed out version 1.0.3 of Enleiten Personal Edition, which allows you to, among other things, associate additional email addresses with your account. You may find this useful in a couple of ways.

First, who doesn’t have multiple email addresses? You can now add both work and home, and forward tasks to your inbox from whichever email system you happen to be using at the time. Remember, that’s ‘username@inbox.enleiten.com’.

Second, if you’re using delegation (which I’d highly recommend — nothing gets you to inbox zero quite as quickly as passing the buck), you can send and receive assignments to any of your registered addresses.

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We’ve moved (a little)!

May 20, 2008

We’ve moved Enleitened to it’s more permanent home at enleitened.com. The wordpress.com links should continue to work, and we’ll continue to work on building the best project planning software we can.

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Version 1.0 no more

May 19, 2008

Over the last few , we’ve pushed two new minor releases. 1.0.1 went out Thursday with fixes for a boatload (well, maybe a dinghy-load) of minor bugs that didn’t make the cutoff for 1.0, along with a working implementation of re-assignment. Yes, that means you can reassign tasks that have been assigned to you.

1.0.2 went out today, adding the ability to bypass the Inbox and create create tasks directly in the project you’re looking at. This should save some time with project planning.

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As always, if you don’t yet have an account or were avoiding the terrifying dot-zero, you can always sign up for a free account here.

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Make Time Tracking Easier

May 15, 2008

I am becoming increasingly enamored of Jott.

If you haven’t tried it, you sign up with your cell phone, and add contacts. You can just call Jott, tell it who to send a message to, and leave a voice message. They’ll transcribe it (speaking clearly really, really helps…), and email both the text message and the recording to you or one of your contacts.

How does this help with billable hours? If you’re using time tracking on your computer, it’s easy enough to keep your application of choice open to mark time. If you’re on the road, however, try Jott. Call in and send yourself (or your assistant) a message with the start time and project name. Call in again on your way out the door. By the time you get back to your computer, you’ll probably already have emails documenting which jobs you worked on and how much time you spent working on them.

There are lots of other tips for using Jott on the Jotter blog.

And yes, an integration to let you Jott tasks to your Enleiten account is coming soon, we promise. Because we really want it, too.

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Version 1? Yes! Version 1!

May 13, 2008

Tonight we’ll be pushing the button and releasing version 1.0 of Enleiten’s personal project manager. So you know what you’ll see when you log in, here’s the release preview for you. Sign up for a free account.

Any questions? Comments? Suggestions? Feedback? Assign us a task from your Enleiten account and we’ll get right on it, or send us an email at support@enleiten.com

In response to user comments, we’ve made a number of improvements to the interface:

- Task lists are now in table format, so you can see due dates, whether you have comments, and whether a task has been delegated without opening the task for additional detail. You can double-click to edit the summary, context and dates directly from the table.

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- In table view you can resort your tasks on the fly - just click the header to sort by project, context, date, etc.

- You can select multiple rows to batch process your inbox. Just click a task, hold down shift, and click another task to select a range. Or command-click on a mac or control-click on a pc to select nonadjacent rows. You can drag the whole set of selected tasks to a contact to delegate, to a context to tag them, or into a project in the left hand navigation just like before.

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- Clicking a contact name from your list will show you everything that’s been assigned to that person. So when they’re on the phone, just click their name and review everything you need to check on in one place.

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- Use the email address you signed up with to create tasks. Send a message to USERNAME@inbox.enleiten.com and the subject line will become the task summary, and the message body will be entered as task detail. If you used your email address for your username, then substitute a period for the @, ie, dduck.example.com@inbox.enleiten.com

- “View all tasks” has been added, so you can see everything at once (perfect for streamlining your weekly review).

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We’ve got more features up our sleeves that you’ve requested, and your comments help us decide which ones to roll out next, so if you can spare a minute, we’d love a quick message from you.

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GTD and Start-ups

May 12, 2008

As promised, here’s your recap from the GTD and Start-ups session at Minnebar.

View it full screen on Slideshare.

If we missed anything important from the Q&A session, or there are other questions, please continue the conversation in the comments.

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Minnebar Love!

May 11, 2008

MinneBar post event social

Photo from Graeme Thickins After 10 hours the crowd was still going strong.

The Enleiten crew has just about slept off the excitement of Minnebar now, and I’m busily working on getting the slides from GTD and start-ups ready for the web. With the support of some fantastic sponsors, over 400 people met for happy hour at the Bulldog, poured into Coffman Union for sessions, and met at the Campus Club mixer.

From implementing social search in a corporate environment to help your employees uncover internal expertise, to a keynote panel on the State of Technology in Minnesota, over 400 attendees in the local tech community were a bustle of presentations, socializing, and demonstrating some truly great tech application, it was great to be there and participate.

And many, many thanks to the great crowd that stuck it out on a long day from 8:30 AM all the way to the 5 PM session to join us for GTD and Startups. As a result of some of the post-session conversation, I’ll be working on setting up a local group to get together and share their experiences using the GTD methodology, details to follow. If you’re interested in joining the group, have votes for a good location, or want to be added to a mailing list for scheduling, leave a note in the comments or drop us a line at info@enleiten.com

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