When I'm in from of the CRT I use the wonderful PlannerMode for Emacs to keep track of my day. I work on a lot of stuff on a day-to-day basis, so it makes sense to have a planner based on lots of individual day pages, and tasks that are linked to both a particular day page as well as to another page highlighting the task's usefulness to a particular plan. I also have it integrated to my ~/diary so it could show dates marked on my Emacs calendar, allowing me as well to procrastinate important tasks to be done in convenient time. Avoiding missing deadlines is easy, since PlannerMode also allows me to tag tasks with deadlines, so I have tasks that have me really do stuff while another set for actually clearing the deadline. And, as a side effect of PlannerMode being essentially an extension of EmacsWikiMode, I can publish my plans as a wiki (with RSS even;) that I use as content for my site, allowing people who I work with to know what I'm up to as well.:)
Now, when I'm not, I use the Hipster PDA. I'm still green using it, but so far, it's great stuff, and I've been using it as my offline PlannerMode.
You may be asking: where's my {cellphone,PDA,laptop}? Answer: I have none of those, but if you're very generous and willing to give me either of the gadgets above, feel free to drop a mail.:D
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When I'm in from of the CRT I use the wonderful PlannerMode for Emacs to keep track of my day. I work on a lot of stuff on a day-to-day basis, so it makes sense to have a planner based on lots of individual day pages, and tasks that are linked to both a particular day page as well as to another page highlighting the task's usefulness to a particular plan. I also have it integrated to my ~/diary so it could show dates marked on my Emacs calendar, allowing me as well to procrastinate important tasks to be done in convenient time. Avoiding missing deadlines is easy, since PlannerMode also allows me to tag tasks with deadlines, so I have tasks that have me really do stuff while another set for actually clearing the deadline. And, as a side effect of PlannerMode being essentially an extension of EmacsWikiMode, I can publish my plans as a wiki (with RSS even ;) that I use as content for my site, allowing people who I work with to know what I'm up to as well. :)
Now, when I'm not, I use the Hipster PDA. I'm still green using it, but so far, it's great stuff, and I've been using it as my offline PlannerMode.
You may be asking: where's my {cellphone,PDA,laptop}? Answer: I have none of those, but if you're very generous and willing to give me either of the gadgets above, feel free to drop a mail. :D