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30 Boxes – The Best Web Calendar?

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Several months ago I was raving about 30 boxes – the calendar web-tool, todo list manager, and social networking thing. Then I quit using 30 boxes because I started using google calendar.

Just thought you might like to know that 30 boxes is still very cool, and they added a bunch of cool features since the last time I checked.

30 boxes is a very cool web-calendar system. The only thing I don’t like about 30 boxes is having to log in — and it’s not their fault. Sometimes I am too lazy to login to a website for a few weeks. Some people are more pragmatic than me, and will keep trying things until they find something that fits their lifestyle. Google makes it easier (to login to the calendar), since all the google apps are moving toward a common login or common ID for all the google apps.

Then along comes the Open-ID project to make it easier to sign in to all web applications from one common ID management system. We’ll see if Open-ID catches on.

FreeCycle – GTD Alternative to Trash Can

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or.. How to Clean Out Your Sock Drawer

Right on the heels of reading Getting Things Done, a friend told us about FreeCycle.

Free cycle logo.

Using the GTD method, you are encouraged to fill up your trash can every day. The inbox is your friend. The file drawer is your friend. The trash can is your friend. And now the FreeCycle re-cycling network is your friend. You can get lots of FREE stuff from FreeCycle and you can give away all your junk on FreeCycle.
Example: I was cleaning out my sock drawer and found I really had 3 sock drawers and way too many white socks. So I put a listing for 1 dozen pair of white socks (no holes, clean, almost new) – FREE.

My friend Cartrel had an expression for something that is quickly completed: “Boom. Done.” So easy to do, and so quickly completed.  Within minutes — 9 people contacted me who wanted the FREE socks. Boom, somebody picks up the FREE socks off my front porch. They are happy and I am happy. Boom. Done. Freecycle is cool!

GTD – Moving On

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I finished reading “Getting Things Done” on Sept. 5, and plan on reading (reviewing) it again in March 2007. Chapters 11 and 12 really summarized everything nicely.

My basement office is transformed. My bed-room is clutter free. My project list is longer than ever, but I’m getting that “feeling of relaxed control” more often than the feeling of panic.

All this is nice, and it’s more than just a 30 day expirement. Real change has happened in my life. But is there a downside to being so driven by lists? What good habits will slip (decay) in the next 6 months? Will any inbox get too full, neglected, and tossed into the “back room”? What buckets will spring a leak?

Note to self: Conduct a rigorous self-audit in March 2007.