I think it’s a good idea for me to plan out this conversion, however simple it may be. I think all conversions breakdown to these steps, however large they may be. The biggest road blocks, or maybe the thinnest bottlenecks, are usually associated with 4 and 5 below: figuring out the proper format for one system to accept data from another. Fortunately,  that’s an area that I have a lot of control over. Once I get the data out, I can pretty much do anything i need to with the format and structure. It’s funny, because my first step is actually entering these actions (activities in PMBOK language) into GTDify. So here we go, lets get it on!

1.  Download ThinkingRock version to MacBook.
2.  Configure it to connect to file on Dropbox.
3.  Download demo of Android app.
4.  Determine file format/structure needed to import project(s) into ThinkingRock.
5.  Export projects from GTDify.
6.  Import into ThinkingRock.
7.  Test.

So I’m thinking of moving from gtdify to thinkingrock.  Ordinarily I would just gung ho it and just do it, but I’ve learned from my past mistakes. When my MacBook went bad, I sent myself a copy of the data file for thinkingrock so I could use it on my windows machine. Well, I should have tested it out first, because for whatever reason, I was unable to bring it into thinkingrock again on the other machine.

By this time, my MacBook was dead, so there was no going back.

Since I had printed everything out, I could at least re-enter everything. Not ideal but not a total loss. Lesson learned.

Another example was with my phone. I’m loving the Evo, and I was plugging along with texting, and was trying to send a mass text to a few friends. I had an extra ticket to the muay thai fights and wanted to see if anyone wanted to come. Well, adding people to a text is a bit cumbersome.  U have to type their name and it’ll smart filter. I want to just scroll through my contacts and just click a checkbox. I was thinking that an app I installed could do the trick, so I selected it to open my contacts. Next thing u know, my contacts r gone!

Boom! Another lesson learned! Should have backed up to Google. And even after I rooted it and put cyanogen on it, I still didn’t back anything up. I don’t know all that I lost but I know I lost some things. Also, it would have been good to document the process in case anyone else needed any help.

Well I’m going to do it this time!  Stay tuned!