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Ok, he really take things to a whole new level. Talk about having an organized desk. Look at this video for some tips on how to implement your own system. That's really what this is all about - implementing your own system. Your mind have to be confident that things will not be forgotten once they're put into your system. With my new service productivity tool I want to give you an opportunity to build a system that you can trust.

One of my biggest problems implementing GTD has been that I have so many different inboxes, and it has been difficult to carry around all the different lists that need to be used. That was the reason I built rmindr.com - it gives me one global inbox that I always can access, and through RSS always access my lists from any phone or other device with an RSS reader.

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As of lately I have been quite into the "Getting Things Done" methology. I'm very bad at implementing it myself, but I'm quite good at telling other people how and why they should use it. I just found this interview by Robert Scoble on fastcompany.tv where he interviews David Allen to get some of the core stuff of GTD out from him. http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/david-allen-on-getting-things-done

As I have been listening to one of David Allens seminars I've been completely sold on the idea of GTD. Although I've only implemented a small portion of the system I really feel a lot less stressed. Earlier I had problems sleeping because there were so many ideas floating around in my mind that I had to keep track of. Now I'm using a tool called Things to keep all those ideas for me. A huge relief not having to remember everything at all times.

The next step for me is to get really good at the weekly review. Because without having a good routine for that, everyone will fail to fully implement the system. I'm not saying that because David Allen says so, but because I'm 7 months into implementing the system, and I've noticed that I look at my lists far to seldom nowadays. If I do the weekly review, I will put the right stuff on the right list at all times and will probably check the lists more often.

That leads me to the biggest problem I have with the system. How do you keep your lists? It's quite good when I'm by my computer, but then at the store and so on there is no way that I would carry around a bunch of paper lists just to see what's on there. Now with the Iphone, there are a lot of new tools for keeping those lists, but in some ways I think it's a bit too complicated since it is still a platform specific solution.

Enter rmindr.com, my main on-the-side project. It's an online GTD app much like any other GTD app out there. With one big difference. The userinterface just works. It is highly inspired by Things (mentioned above) because that fells natural for me. I don't really think this service will make me rich or anything, but what it does is that it solves a problem, in particular My problem. With rmindr you get all of your context lists avaliable on any device through RSS. Collaboration is really simple with drag-n-drop ease to delegate tasks. Collection is really simple through the API where collecting a new task through any medium or tool will be possible, and as easy as a HTTP Post to a specific URL, or a MMS/SMS/Phonecall to a specific number.

With the RSS context lists I'll be able to see my grossery store shopping list with any phone while I'm in the store.

The service will be launching shortly as I'm putting the last bits and pieces together. Stay tuned for more info. I won't have a beta sign up page unfortunately, but if you subscribe to the rss of this blog you'll no when it opens.