You're absolutely right: what Allen suggests doing is common sense. However glib dismissals like "that's just common sense" are not helpful for two reasons. The first being that what's common sense to one person may not be to another. (That's why people still drink and drive, I believe). The other reason is that there is value in creating a structured system around common sense. I took a budgeting/home economics class in highschool. The contents should be common sense... don't spend more money than you've got, and know where its going. But there are record numbers of people declaring bankruptcy.
The fact that a book lays out a common sense system and provides some rigidity really doesn't mean that it has no value.
I'm not sure what the situation is like where you are, but here in Ontario the impact of politics on the education system has left us very short of teachers with applied skillsets. The pay is low (teachers here start from between $28K to $34K), and during the year you'll have to work long hours, but you'll get all the same vacations as your kids, and you'll be working to improve a system from which they'll benefit!
I haven't seen this mentioned, so I'll post. Check out CheapPalm.com. They've got a Palm III with keyboard bundle for Snow Pesos $50 right now. They sell and ship to the US as well.
The biggest problem with this route is the terrible editing in memo. I've never found a half-way decent text editor for the thing.
The Good, Easy system worked for me back when I used it. The premise is to get everything into plain text, and use simple tools to manage it. There's a Wired article on it, and the source documents to the Good, Easy Desktop and Good, Easy email are at Winterspeak.
Chad has asked me to put a notice regarding the files not being available (any longer) on SourceForge. Here's his mail:
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I've got to run to work (I'm late!), but if one of you could please put a post on the slashdot article explaining the problem I would be very thankful!
It seems I broke a rule at sourceforge which limits file sizes to 100MB
If someone could offer a mirror site I would be very thankful for that as well!
Thanks! Chad
Here's what sourceforge had to say
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Greetings,
My name is ********; I am the Quality of Service Manager for
SourceForge.net. This message is directed to you since you are
designated as a project administrator for the Simply GNUstep project on
SourceForge.net.
First, we would like to take a moment to congratulate you on your recent
press exposure on Slashdot.org -- we love to see Open Source projects
succeed, and press exposure of this nature is always of great benefit.
Since the announcement of your project efforts on/., your project has
received roughly 2241 downloads of the ISO image provided through your
download page at: http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/Download.html
It has come to our attention that you are making use of SourceForge.net
project web services as a mechanism to release file materials in excess
of 100MB in size. Each project hosted on SourceForge.net is provided
with project web services as to ensure that they may adequately provide
an online description and information regarding their project.
Slashdot Mirror
Her first book? Is that or is that not her "webserial cyberdetective" novel?
The fact that a book lays out a common sense system and provides some rigidity really doesn't mean that it has no value.
Has anyone dropped the $30 for the Outlook GTD whitepaper? Is it worth it?
If you're interested, here's the job outlook for all of Canada. The Ontario College of Teachers has a lot of job preparation information. I'm sure you'll be able to find the same for the states.
I haven't seen this mentioned, so I'll post. Check out CheapPalm.com. They've got a Palm III with keyboard bundle for Snow Pesos $50 right now. They sell and ship to the US as well. The biggest problem with this route is the terrible editing in memo. I've never found a half-way decent text editor for the thing.
The Good, Easy system worked for me back when I used it. The premise is to get everything into plain text, and use simple tools to manage it. There's a Wired article on it, and the source documents to the Good, Easy Desktop and Good, Easy email are at Winterspeak.
I've done some summarizing, actually. Hope this is halfway useful.
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I've got to run to work (I'm late!), but if one of you could please put a post on the slashdot article explaining the problem I would be very thankful!
It seems I broke a rule at sourceforge which limits file sizes to 100MB
If someone could offer a mirror site I would be very thankful for that as well!
Thanks! Chad
Here's what sourceforge had to say
--------------
Greetings,
My name is ********; I am the Quality of Service Manager for SourceForge.net. This message is directed to you since you are designated as a project administrator for the Simply GNUstep project on SourceForge.net.
First, we would like to take a moment to congratulate you on your recent press exposure on Slashdot.org -- we love to see Open Source projects succeed, and press exposure of this nature is always of great benefit. Since the announcement of your project efforts on /., your project has
received roughly 2241 downloads of the ISO image provided through your
download page at: http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/Download.html
It has come to our attention that you are making use of SourceForge.net project web services as a mechanism to release file materials in excess of 100MB in size. Each project hosted on SourceForge.net is provided with project web services as to ensure that they may adequately provide an online description and information regarding their project.