Some personal notes as a BIS user. BES users can access subfolders in email and sync wirelessly. BIS users should look at Google.

With Gmail I can wirelessly sync Contacts and Calendar. All your emails can be remotely searched and read.

Gmail Labels = Folders so I can also “file” emails to ‘Action’, ‘Waiting for’ or just ‘Archive’ if I responded to a less than 2 minute email.

Unfortunately I still need to sync wired for Tasks on my Mac to sync contexts.

I made my own “GTD” BlackBerry 9700 theme which is easy in the free Theme Builder from RIM. My theme removed the latest and loudest notification icons as suggested in the guide.

BlackBerry is my capture device and the $20 ‘Next Action’ app by S4BB.com reduces clicks.

I also use the free OnToCalendar app. It lets me put contacts, emails, SMS, missed calls, etc, onto my Calendar OR onto a Task with the body saved in the notes field.

Currently OS6 for BlackBerry is a step backwards for GTD productivity, IMHO. It makes searching remote emails a three click procedure instead of one. Adding a missed call to OnToCalendar with OS6 requires a workaround. And 3rd party apps like Next Action are not OS6 compliant.

This post is specifically about BlackBerry, that’s why OmniFocus is not mentioned. But if you do a search on GTD Times, you will find many, many posts on OmniFocus, iPad and iPhone.

Kelly

No, we don’t have anything for Nokia at this point. We actually don’t come across it too often.

Kelly

Do you at David Allen Company has any guides for replication of my Lotus Notes to and from a Nokia phone, or links to apps that will enhance the performance of my Nokia?

Kind regards
Chris

PI works for me because I only rely on its excellent calendar function. All date/time-specific actions go on the calendar. In short I love the calendar because it is easy to set up and quick to implement in the field, for instance at the doctor’s office scheduling a new appointment. It has a great “weekly” view that other calendars have ignored. Its setting up alarms and repeated actions are simple and flexible. I actually change my furnace filter before it becomes plugged with an inch of dirt.

The other half of my GTD solution, an app called Action Lists, is right next to my PI calendar app. Any action not time specific, goes here. There are five main folders, always available at the screen’s bottom. I’m in the Actions folder most of the time.

Adding an action is very quick and easy. Hit a + icon, type in your action, and then you can also click Contexts and link your action to a context, for example @Phone.

Besides the Actions main folder, there is an InBox, Projects, Waiting, and Someday? Pure GTD. You can create a project folder by name, and thereafter link any action, be it a phone call, errand, etc., to that project. Easy, fast, efficient way of handling the Projects vs. Next Actions challeng.

So, for me, I was a GTD wanna be who failed using paper. With these two apps, Pocket Informant and Action Lists, along with camera, voice recorder, notes, etc., I am at long last at ease with my GTD tools. I don’t need to strain for a better way. Thanks in great part to these two apps, I feel closer to the mind-like-water peace DA talks about.
Jim B