Online shared intelligence

Evernote, with its apparently simple functional set, and the humble “note” as key metaphor, is taking over the domain of more and more applications, and in the process becoming irreplaceable for me. Makes me wander if “note taking” is not a term that has suffered excessive trivialization…

GTD (Short for David Allen’s book title Getting Things Done), is not only a book, it’s also a hugely adopted personal productivity methodology, a cult phenomenon, a tag in del.icio.us with 58,000+ entries, a favorite posting subject for bloggers (how original of me), and the subject of multiple software and online solutions, both open source and proprietary.

But GTD is also a naked emperor of sorts: chronicles of failed adoptions are pretty much as common (or more) as discussions of GTD itself. Typical postings about it go as follows:

Patterns on use of Nokia N810: how the N810’s particular convergence of memory size, connectivity, processing speed, storage and UI bandwidth gets very close to ideal for me