It came up during a search for what else - software that can better handle my information management problems.

http://alexandrasamuel.com/career-work/the-23-stages-of-the-task-management-software-lifecycle

Enjoy,

--Ken

Funny indeed! Thanks for sharing.

Yes, it was funny. I believe that she forgot to say "Rinse and Repeat" at the end. ;)

--Ken

Not only funny, but sadly very, very close to what happens with me all too frequently.

Steve Z.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:

Not only funny, but sadly very, very close to what happens with me all
too frequently.

Steve Z.

Now if we could only find a way to harness this "energy" and possibly make some money from it. I suspect that many of us here in the forum would then be quite wealthy. Unfortunately, I do not believe that any major software company would hire us. We would just foul up their marketing departments' plans to implement the latest FOTM, like web pages that contain lots of pretty lifestyle pictures and videos, but no useful information like an instruction manual. Let's face, we are serious thinkers, and nobody these days wants to hire somebody with a serious thinking problem. ;)

--Ken

Thanks for posting --- I second what Steve said. The bit by Alexandra Samuel is both funny and depressingly accurate. Specifically, I have found that a "GTD" mentality combined with a new software system leads me to put what is probably far too much energy into writing everything down, which leads to absurdly long lists of tasks, to the point that eventually I find myself using some other straightforward system to write down what are actually the few most important things I need to do on a given day. Well, good to know that I'm not alone!

Too funny indeed...
And when you combine a CRIMPer with a software developer, obsessed with optimal information management, you get a crazy, never ending project...

Now wait until you see this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu0gM0_vxIM

Microsoft Hololens: 3-D display of your information management tools. CRIMPers will go nuts !!

Pierre

Brilliant, funny, true. The truth, of course, is that we can only keep track of a maximum of 7 things. Probably only four of them matter. The point of all these systems is to try to actually get to three of them. And when you get right down to it, we don't even manage that. The problem, I think we can all agree, is the software. (Unless it's the wetware.)