I am always looking for ways to be more productive, or at least more obsessive-compulsive, and this morning I spent a couple of hours trying to tweak my latest obsession, a phone app called Mynd that combines your calendar and locations - and contacts and a little bit of categorization and goal-keeping. It provides a useful interface for seeing what you have to do appointment-wise at a glance, but the real reason I got it was that it allows one-touch dialing of conference calls (it dials the phone number, waits, then dials the conference code) which is a godsend when you're out of the office.
The program is trying to branch into helping you assess progress toward your goals by categorizing your events and assigning them to goals. If your time represents your activities, it works fine, but if your goals aren't really tracked by time but by tasks, it doesn't work so well. I know that time-based goals would be a good idea, so I am trying to accommodate it by adding yet another calendar (on top of work, personal, travel, Hub, and Jamie) for personal activities so I can track whether I am spending the amount of time I want on, say exercising, or reading, or time with family, or marketing for the law firm.
This part of the program is new, and is not working well yet - it reports that I spent six hours the last couple of days with Jamie Noland Smith, two hours of which was also spent with a Jamie Smith. I"m not sure if I should be having a sense of regret that I apparently was part of a threesome yesterday and missed it, or I should be worried Jamie will find out I'm seeing this other Smith woman. I assume they'll work it out eventually.
