My Productivity System Decision

So I’ve officially dumped all of the various productivity systems, to do list managers, etc out there and will be sticking with my own home grown, Excel base to do system. I tried out many diferent systems and several were very useful systems. All other systems started at a disadvantage though – they were built by someone else. I can take pride in my self-built system and can also constantly be tweaking the system which I enjoy. If my system doesn’t do something right, freezes up, or any other fun computer stuff, I have nobody to blame for myself (well, I may cuss Bill Gates on the occasional Excel/Windows problem ).

My investigation into the various tools has led to some improvements to my to do list manager (ToDo). I had been developing my ToDo for several years and it worked well for what it was. During my research I read a lot about David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) time management system. I have incorporated some GTD principles into ToDo and also into my daily work and task management.