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2. (tasklist) Of course the real problem is that you can’t sort or modify physical paper very well. I tried to compensate by using pencil, numbering the list items, periodicaly re-writing the lists. The one obvious advantage of computerized tools is analyticity, the ability to mince/sort, clone, etc your various lists.
I am a big fan of “using what you have”. So for the moment, I “try” to use a pocketPC’s task list (sync’d to Outlook), with about 120 items. This is not going to work much longer I fear though, cause I use a priority sort (with a self-imposed requirement that no more than 25 items get the “!” priority). As a result, I rarely look below # 25 (I actually DO try to review the whole thing once/week, in the GTD manner, but don’t always do this effectively).
So, yes, you don’t really find many people doing more than a superficial scratching of the surface of the standard electronic tools, and yet they continue searching for more gadgets that could have been easily done with Outlook, Word, Excel. But I am that way too, and I don’t plan to break down and learn VBA (so far) to manage lists.
3. (Outlook) I must (by necessity) use Outlook, and I feel that it is really far more pow