When Technology Defeats The Purpose – My Sunday To-Do List Showcase

For those of you who are following us and keeping up with our company history, you know that we’ve setup a remote work environment and that we don’t have a physical office space any more. We mostly work virtually.

We’re using technology to communicate, collaborate, and achieve a lot! In particular, we use a bunch of web applications to do what we need to do and share what we want to share – some of them we’ve developed ourselves, some we’ve bought, and some are free. Project management, task management, time tracking, file sharing, chat, are just a few examples of what we handle through web apps.

But sometimes all these tools and technology just defeat the purpose. It kinda gets in the way. When you have a bunch of things you need done, but you don’t necessarily need to cooperate on these things, or track the time you spend on them, or be particularly organized, then there’s nothing better than a good old quick text document you use temporarily and discard when you’re done. As an example, here’s my to-do list from last Sunday (08/07):

[x] mail check to rosa and to josh
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[x] product questions: fix most formatting /phrasing issues
[x] product questions: apply changes to action, expert, mi, and remove files from ul
[x] upgrade blog extension
[x]  upgrade live magento installation
[x] apply all upgrade patches
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[x] take care of customer Frank Sxxxxx
[x] take care of hosting clients
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[x] Ultimento support requests
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[x] write Mxxxx
[x] talk to Yxxx about what we’ll do in Kxxxx
[x] buy ticket to India
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[] setup email forward to Fxxxxx for support requests
[x] create user for Fxxxxxx to access store admin  (and access to help desk)
[] write Fxxxxxx and make decisions regarding accounting and responsibilities
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[] check htaccess after upgrade of live stores
[] run compilation on ultimento demo and other stores
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[x] publish blog post about this nice list!

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  • Jonathan
    Thanks for sharing!

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