As is so often the case, I’ve let myself get behind on all of the tasks and projects I need to keep up with. Between work, hobbies, volunteering, &tc it’ REALLY easy to do. Once upon a time, I used the Franklin Planner system, which was pretty awesome. With the advent of the smartphone, though, the need to carry around a paper binder full of calendars and todo lists and project organization seemed silly.
And for a while it was AWESOME. I could put most of what I need into things like OmniFocus, Evernote and Remember the Milk. All these great tools centered around GTD.
But times change, and tools change, and I find myself in a bind with the tooling. I have something like 11 streams of incoming tasks/information, each it’s own “silo” :
Not Work
– GMail
– Google Calendar
– Evernote
– Github
– Trello
– Remember the Milk
Work
– Exchange Mail
– Exchange Calendar
– Jira
– Salesforce
– Confluence
– Sharepoint
And those are the ones I remember of the top of my head. Now, short moving BACK to a paper system just to centralize everything, is there a tool out there that can/does integrate ALL these input streams and will help me organize them all? Some basic requirements :
OS Support :
– Mac (both home & work)
– Linux (home mostly)
– Android
– iOS
Integrations :
– Google/iCal
– Exchange
– Bonus for any of the other listed streams above
Price : Reasonable. Free and OSS preferred
Am I out of my mind in thinking that somewhere there is a tool that can do all that? Or am I going back to the dark ages and going back to killing trees (i.e. paper)?
I haven’t been able to work with it much, but have you looked at the IFTTT.com stuff? It’s supposed to be able to take all kinds of things and mash them up.
Other than that, I’ve moved a lot of my todo lists and evernote type notes/reminders to Google Keep. GitHub has a bunch of nice integration stuff. You just have to enable them for your repositories (one at a time unfortunately).