I’ll put your book you recommended on my wish list. I’ve heard the book is excellent.

Thanks. I was delaying buying this book for long time, for reason I dont really know. I’m currently going through “How to Win Friends & Influence People” by magnificent Dale Carnegie. It’s quite a great book. But now since you mention this, I guess I will take it as my next one on the list.

Thanks again

Thanks for stopping by.

I will expand on the points you raised – namely the *tools* to use and *where* to store your to do list – in future posts.

For now, I would say that for all intents and purposes, Outlook can be useful, but is not enough. There are many, many things that need to get done away from a computer, so you need to have your to do list with you on the go. What defeats the purpose of the GTD method is trying to memorise “to do” items from a list you store on your computer. The point is, you don’t want to keep commitments in your head, so you need to have your “to do”s accessible when you need to go through them and start doing them.

I personally don’t use Outlook, but you will also want to have separate “to do” lists for different contexts (e.g. @computer, @phone, @home, @office, etc). If this feature is supported, rather than have a single to do list for all your items, then it’s a plus.

In conclusion, you can use Outlook as part of your GTD system, but I don’t think it’ll be enough for all your needs.

Wassalaam,
Haider