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October 12, 2005
New stuff in the Info management space
I spent a little time in the last twenty four hours with two different software company demos. Yesterday I was walked through a demo of the "Personal Information Network" by Ashwani Sirohi, a co-founder of Trimergent Corp. It's basically a way to tag files and URL's (and some MS-based objects like calendar entries) anywhere, group them together and share them with people or teams, who can then access that grouping in a customized portal-like manner. Interesting idea, they have a web-based demo.
Then last night flew up to San Francisco and was taken to dinner by Deva Hazariki and Brad Meador, the guys who are heading up ClearContext, an Outlook add-in that does some neat sorting and sifting of the inbox so you can navigate around it more efficiently in the weird-time windows during the day. They apparently have a bunch of GTD fans and even GTD Add-In users who find ClearContext a useful tool. I'm not a big supporter of building a lot of power in the in-box itself that might have people keep stuff there, but I did recognize how nice it would be have e-mail sorted on the fly with the algorithms they've built in.
It's always amazing to me how the universe begins to glide things toward me, as soon as I tune my mental filters in that direction. Though GTD has more to do with an active thinking and decision-making process than passive data sorting, the latter is becoming more of interest to me than it has in the past.
Both connections came from reommendations from my buddy Buzz Bruggeman, who is of course the ultimate cool info-management leprechaun...
Posted by David at October 12, 2005 07:39 AM
Comments
Hi David,
It's always nice to read your blog posts. I am a fan of GTD to the extent that I'm writing about GTD in Dutch (http://www.meereffect.nl). The final aim is (of course) to get my friends and colleagues on to the bandwagon, so that I can collaborate with them much more easily :-)
Thanks for sharing your ideas and having such a profound impact on my life and the life of my friends!
You were writing about software. I'm sure you have great software for handling all the back office chores of organising your workshops. But in case you do not, you may want to check out Jumpstart-it (http://www.jumpstart-it.com).
I originally wrote Jumpstart-it because I didn't want to spend more than ten minutes a day on the registration and administration of our own workshops and conferences.
It has now grown to the point that it is very easy to create and customize Online forms. It retrieves all registrations, sends emails automatically and makes it easy to mail merge with Microsoft Word and even easier to export lists to Excel.
If you're interested in a license key, just drop me an email - I'd be my pleasure to support your efforts in any way I can.
Warm regards,
Taco Oosterkamp
Posted by: Taco Oosterkamp at October 12, 2005 12:52 PM
Glad you liked both products and teams!
Regards...
The large leprechaun..
Buzz
Posted by: Buzz Bruggeman at October 13, 2005 08:26 AM
There is already a tool that sorts email on the fly - POPFile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/)
Best regards,
Sridhar Pandurangiah
Posted by: Sridhar Pandurangiah at October 14, 2005 09:30 PM
