<p>Post an unproductive week and some moments of retrospection later; the root cause of my state of non-action seemed to be lack of clarity and focus. Every day this week, I had bunch of ideas related to the on going projects. Somewhere during this cycle of dealing with tasks, I got overwhelmed with the chained "task" reaction, and lost the focus to organize/think through.</p>
**Looking back...**
I needed to get into the System again, let the System worry about
ideas/projects/tasks. And then my goal should as simple as knocking the
tasks off, one by one. My previous attempts to hack on a System were
only moderately successful (apart from the few months when I hosted
Tracks on my domain). Two lessons from the past -
- Go for the most minimalist yet tweakable user interface. You must
know where *what is*
- Carefully choose the system (GTD et. al), or the system would get
too complex, and ultimately take me down with it :)
**Made the jump**
Remember the Milk, it is. The biggest other online contender was
Toodledo with great many features (per
[this](http://www.toodledo.com/info/compare.php) comparison chart). I do
care a lot about how and where my data goes (read encrypted), todoist
only provides SSL with premium accounts. No go. Plus with RTM, I loved
their usability and the amazing community around. If you haven't done
already, check out their [Tips and
Tricks](http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/category/tips-tricks/) blog
posts. So far so good :)
Next, choosing a system. I started with Zen To Done (loved the
[principles](http://zenhabits.net/zen-to-done-ztd-the-ultimate-simple-productivity-system/)),
thanks to *ssimon* for
[this](https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/13499/) nice writeup
on implementing ZTD with RTM.
**Tweak it up**
Here are the RTM mods I'm using:
- User style: [Remember the Milk - Keyboard Shortcuts (Smart
Add)](http://userstyles.org/styles/20797/remember-the-milk-keyboard-shortcuts-smart-add)
- User style: [RTM on
top -chrome](http://userstyles.org/styles/46647/rtm-on-top-chrome)
(with some modifications, available
[here](https://gist.github.com/1287359))
And this is how the interface looks currently.