Jan Schulz

Nice: Eric Mack gave me the opportunity to evaluate the eProductivity mailtemplate and blog about the experience and get a free license if I like it in the end. Thanks for that Eric! :-) So this is kind of an introductory posting and then over the next weeks I will share how my little experiment with eProductivity proceeds.

I think my experience will be unique as I've just finished with my diploma thesis and I'm currently looking for my first job. So basically I've not a lot "professional" life to organize right now but just my private one and my point of view will (hopefully) be a little different than all the other guys who gave eProductitivity a try :-).

Up to now I used all kinds of tools to organize my life. My experiences vary from calendars written on paper by hand, a single email in my notes mailfile (which contained all my todos organized by priorities and estimated time), simple inbox unread marks up to several different calendar tools (including KOrganizer and Notes).  Usually the problem was, that the tool got in the way and it was much more overhead to organize or get a big picture view than to not use the tools. But in times of stress or more complicated things (even a student has that sometimes :-) I usually got back to to one or the other: mostly paper and color coding...

I also must say that I don't have any experience in "Getting things done": my only experience with time and self management is the book "slow down speed up" by Lothar J. Seiwert (highly recomended!) and several ways, which do not work in one way or the other :-).

So what I'm basically looking for is an app, which

• collects and keeps track of all the little things I have in my mind
• lets me organize my actions/tasks and present it to me in organized forms
• lets me quickly prioritize my tasks
• lets me plan my next day

And most of all: does this without getting in my way.

So after ready all the nice reviews of eProductivity I got curious and had a look at the video postet and the evaluation database. What got me hooked was the ease with what you could add new tasks and keep them organized: just drag and drop an email and you have a new task ready and have it (almost) automaticaly asigned to a context or a project

So after doing the nice tutorial in the evaluation database, I send in feedback and got this chance.