Steveer Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is choosing a PDA. Listener Jerry calls in.

Hey, Steveer. This is Jerry from Connecticut. Can you do an episode on PDAs versus planners and tips on using both?

The quick and dirty tip is to base your choice on your personality type, your collaboration

needs, and your scheduling time frame.

Hi, Jerry.

I have so many personal organizing tools.

I need a tool to organize them.

I have a fanny pack for my Blackberry iPod, headphones,

3x5 note pad, pen, and Palm Pilot. Pathetically, I actually wear the fanny pack in public. It keeps me

safe on the subway along with my spandex bicycle shorts. Even Boston muggers have enough

fashion sense to rescue their reputations by keeping their distance.

Choose a system that works for you. The world has two kinds of people. These structured,

also known as uptight, in a retentive obsessive compulsives, and The Chill, also known as

saxophone players. I am an uptight obsessiveive, compulsive who really wants to chill out.

In my experience, the chill are genetically incapable of keeping a detailed system,

but they do benefit from having one place for everything. Chill folk need one place to stuff

notes, calendars, to-does, and addresses where they can dig them out on demand. We uptight,

like flexible systems we can design

to match our thinking. It can

have several pieces, and since we're

very good at details, we can keep track

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