As much as I love Priacta’s Total, Relaxed Organization and their TROG Bar utility, I hate how much memory Outlook takes up. I decided to do some hunting for a replacement Personal Information Manager that meets the TRO requirements and has a much smaller memory footprint. After giving Essential PIM Pro and WinPIM a try, I settled on WinPIM. Here’s why.
But first, the bad news
Even though I was doing well using the GTD Add In for Outlook, I was still feeling overwhelmed by all the tasks I had created. I just couldn’t seem to keep them filtered in a way that let me see only what was truly important, right now. While researching ways to handle this, I stumbled upon Priacta’s website and their Total, Relaxed Organization (TRO) training. The more I read, the more I liked what I saw, and took the plunge by purchasing their online training course. Over the next month, I implemented their system and completed their 21 day follow up exercises. TRO has one significant advantage — it can be put t use from day one by teaching not only principles, but specific step by step actions to take to quickly organize your workspace, put things off immediately and start being productive.
