Well, nothing like launching a new product to discover how many things you were leaving “until after the launch”. And after the initial publicity burst (which I didn’t really do enough of anyway), they all assaulted me at once. But I’m beginning to get back on top of it. I even managed to tidy up my desk, which was covered in stuff sitting waiting to pounce on my valuable attention stream when I looked away from the screen.
So I piled it all up to process it, GTD style. Didn’t look too bad at first.
The problem was I found that my filing system had gotten in a bit of dissaray during the rush of the last few months, so that pile stayed about the same size for quite a while as I added stuff from my files to the top as fast as I was creating new ones to file stuff in.
But it’s done now. This is one of four drawers. Everything alphabetical within 5-6 major groupings. By the end of the process it was really easy to find the right folder for stuff again.
I also created a tickler file for the first time, which consists of 43 folders - one for each day for the next month, and one for each month. Business Pundit suggests using them for the purpose of prompting a reviewing of decisions, which is not a bad idea. Might try that.
It feels good to have gotten that bit out of the way, and I’ve got a much better idea of all the things that need to be done. I really need to get back on the publicity wagon! Been trying to drum up a few reviews from the Mozillazine crowd to get us out of the AMO Sandbox, that’s also a priority. On the whole they seem to really like it but not many of them have posted reviews yet. Will be posting about how to access the AMO Sandbox and post a review over at the Interclue Blog shortly.
