trapped in the paperless, wireless, timeless and spaceless office

Things, OmniFocus, Anxiety they’re all neat applications that can help you to Get Things Done (GTD).

But I just realized that the real GTD is having no internet access. Stranded near St. Tropez with my Mac and no internet connexion I did more actual work in a couple of hours than in a whole online working day. How?

• No email
• No Skype (huge time consumer)
• No Twitter
• No Safari
• No Google Reader
• No Wikipedia to fill my knowledge voids
• No bittorrent
• No iTunes (my music library sits in an external drive)
• No phone calls (don’t like roaming costs)
• No application or system upgrades to download and install
• No new features to check on the upgrades

This allowed me to:

• Go running on the woods
• Restart Douglas Coupland’s J-Pod on the beach
• Watch Rossi win the italian Grand Prix
• Write this post while I’m offline in the terrace of my appartment
• Take a long walk in Port Grimaud
• Have a Boullabaisse for dinner

In any case if you’re serious about GTD, a part from staying offline, consider getting Things, the simplest and yet more powerful GTD app for the Mac.