Business | Carlos, this one's for you!

Japan Chronicles

Posted on September 12, 2013 by carlos fletcher

Man, it’s been almost 30 years since I visited Japan. I just remember going to this one place where they told me that I would be back. I’m finally back.

We got into Tokyo about 1030 pm last night. According to my time it was more like 1130 am.

As soon as we got on our bus we started noticing subtle differences. For one, seat belts. I’m used to the male part of the seatbelt being the adjustable part. it was the opposite here. And of course there’s the driving on the other side of the rode. Going from the airport to our rental, the city reminded me more of Toronto than NYC. There were a lot of white clean buildings.

I’m a little jet lagged. I stopped trying to figure out what time it is back home. One thing we did was to deprive ourselves of sleep before we left. This has lessened the effect of jet lag, I believe, but I’m still tired. I got like 3-4 hours sleep last night. I’m hoping that’s the average.

I gotta take a shower and bounced, but here are a few pics of the drive to the apartment.

GTDify —-> ThinkingRock Project Plan

Posted on November 28, 2011 by carlos fletcher

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.

Make up your GTD mind!

Posted on November 24, 2011 by carlos fletcher

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!