GReactions

I am going through the motions with gReactions right now.  Put it on FireFox 3.5.2, MBP OS x.

The install was smooth.  Mozilla provided precautionary words before download.  Did due diligence.   I do not see any customization capability yet.  That would be nice.  The font is so small it’s just about impossible to read.  Getting a size option on that would be welcome, or at least a bit larger font.  The timeliness of the responses, the dialogue, appears to be instantaneous–the scraping process would be a hoot to check out.  I’m going to get to know that a bit better.

Tracking the sources of the comments is klugy.  These days as well, it seems difficult to find the real source of items–you might need to navigate through a couple of third party syndications before you get to the original post/reaction.  A very high order would be real time refreshing, i.e., a FriendFeed within the results.  I didn’t see how that could be done here–a refresh within Google Reader would either make the item you’re looking at disappear, and or the entire feed would refresh to the most recent item.  The topic gets drowned in all the updated content.

You can filter the responses by the syndication source, this is a useful feature.

Overall it’s a great.  Hey, it’s viewed as Alpha, version 0.1.c.  I’m keeping it in GR.  Can’t wait to see and install updates.

Getting Things Done, otherwise known as GTD–this is a tool which, hopefully, will help me restore order in my life. As each day comes, as each new piece of information surrounds and drowns, more and more it’s essential to learn how to deal with it, process it. I’ve got the book and am going head first in to making the program work.

GTD seems to be a movement–but is that all social media hype? I first found it on the web. Someone blogged it. Maybe it was a blink, or a digg. Wherever the post was, it proved intriguing, and I researched the program further. The reports and dialogue convinced me to grab the book and the Outlook plugin. The plugin is by no means perfect, but I moved to this after the Franklin Covey PlanPlus Outlook plugin completely bombed for me.

Using the Covey nomenclature, a paradigm shift is definitely in progress. GTD’s author, David Allen, developed a Workflow Diagram, which is on my wall. I refer to it often and will have it memorized soon enough. It helps you deal with overwhelm and develop a trusted system for retrieving the information you need, when you need it. More on this soon. Quite busy building files–and despite the assertion that all of our “stuff” will be electronic, there’s still an abundance of paper in my world. Off to conquer it.