Earth 2 Adam

I’ve always liked the idea of the Entourage Project Center. It lets you create a Project which can then be linked to email, notes, contacts, or just about anything else in your system. It even creates special “watch folders” to hold your project files. You can set Project deadlines and track your progress through a series of panels and custom views. And if you are clever with Applescript, you can generate activity reports that answer the question “So what’s the status on this?” (More on that later).

But the system has an Achilles Heal, and it’s a big one. [More]

If you are implementing GTD (See Getting Things Done by David Allen), then you probably keep a list titled “Errands”, “@Errands”, or even “@%#Errands”. Whatever you call it, the purpose of this context is to track all of your “next actionable” items that can only be done while you are on the run. Some typical entries might read:

• Shoe Store - exchange dress shoes
• Super Market - pickup dog food
• Post Office - mail bills

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