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Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes

At work, I use Lotus Notes. This isn’t by choice. While Notes is a brilliant piece of engineering, and excels at a mutlitude of tasks, e-mail isn’t one of them. In fact, it is perhaps the worst e-mail client in existence currently, and even a horrible web-based system is better and more responsive. Having said that, sometimes there’s a few tools of use in it, and we use it extensively for a lot of things internally (HR, professional development, agreements, etc.) and so it’s everywhere. Today, on an internal site, I found a GTD bundle for Notes that provides a new database template and LotusScript for handling all the fun. Here’s a screenshot:

It’s not the most beautiful thing in the world, but it is functional, and I can keep a live replica on one of the Notes clusters in the company so that I don’t lose anything. I can’t wait for the new OmniGroup application, OmniFocus, which I suspect will be as brilliant as anything else they’ve done. Heck, it’s gotta be good, Merlin Mann is involved. Alas, it will be Mac-only, and that doesn’t help me at work. Still, it’s something, and who knows, maybe I can find some way to push data between the two.