It Rains In Triplicate

I keep harping on the issue, I know, but I really want to find the solution The issue is that I do not want to enforce / express one off behaviors.

A TODO list is about single instances of actions. “Clean your room” “Finish the report” “Solve world hunger”. All those are fine, but my life is rarely as structured as that. I deal in firedrills, much of the time. In other cases, it is about large projects that may or may not be decomposable. i.e., a TODO list surely has a place, but is insufficient.

What do I mean by behaviors? Conceptually, I keep going back to the Personal Unit Test concept. I want to express “Do a cardio workout 3 times a week” “Practice guitar for 30 minutes 4 times a week” “Read a book once a week” “Make the world a better place twice a week”

These aren’t expressed well as repeating one off behaviors. In OmniFocus, I end up with a back log of “cardio workout” items when I’m out of town for a week.

Instead, I want to work in daily / monthly / weekly reports to know how I did and understand what I need to do better.

Y’know, kind like unit test reports.

Woo hoo. A paper acceptance just came in.

Got to get around to posting these papers someplace.

I finished the majority of my deliverables for the week, since half the team is out of town for demos.

One project is about to go on hiatus, but the other one just got a funding plus up that means that it can fund all my time, starting this week.

Wow, it’ll be like a vacation.

Hmm. Pandora has started playing songs that specifically feature “a prominent accordion part”

I really want to learn to play accordion one of these days.

I’m trying to make use of OmniFocus to organize my task list. It is going very poorly.

If you are business enough to really need to buy software to organize yourself, chances are:

1. You spend a lot of time on the move
2. You use more than ONE COMPUTER
3. You have a PDA or cell phone

You’d think that there would be a good web enabled GTD application out there, or at least one that supported syncing between multiple computers.

Bleh.

Apple store is down. I wonder what’s new.

Predictions: new Macbook Pros and 16G iPhone (as per engadget)

EDIT: oh well. 16G iPhone and 32G iPod touch. No MBP.