TimsterC

So I’ve been challenged in my Open University course to try and understand a bunch more about time management and how it can help me.
Being a Lotus bod I decided to take another look at eProductivity that I saw demonstrated at Lotusphere 2009, but Erick Mack and David Allen of GTD fame.

Having listened to David Allen read his Getting Things Done (GTD) book a bunch of times (I have it as an audio book), I think I get the process. I have no decided to take the plunge and investigate integrating that into my Lotus Notes mail file to get the full effect of what it can do for me. eProductivity is just such an application that will change the look, feel and functionality of my mail file. It’s safe for me as I know how to control the security in Notes (ECL) and I have complete control over my mail file (Manager Access). If after evaluating this on a 4 week trial I discover that it’s not for me then I can revert back to the Lotus designed mail file and nothing will be lost. You have to love Notes for it’s flexibility.

So here goes, downloading the template now and replacing the design of my mail file this morning. Then it’s off to lunch for a stiff drink. ;o) When I come back I’ll start the spring clean with a trawl through my existing inbox and work out what needs to go where.

I’ll post my progress and let you all know how I’m getting on as I get into this. I’ll also share any tips and tricks I find along the way.

Full Disclosure
I feel it only fair to inform everyone that I will not be hiding anything in these blog posts, but if I like eProductivity, they have offered me a free license if I want to continue using it. All I have to do is blog about it. But I want you all to know that if it’s bad, needs changing, crashes my mail file, revolutionizes my life or annoys the life out of me, I’ll be telling everyone.
My thanks go to Erik Mack and Ryan Heathers for offering this opportunity to me.

SHOW112 – How to build an XPages application from start to finish

The file resources that you would need to create the LOANr application yourself in your own time can be found here. (This has been edited and a corrected .pdf included 27-Jan-10)

Included files are:

show112.pdf – the presentation that becomes your manual on how to create the LOANr XPages application.
scriptsnippets.txt – this is all the code that you are going to need to type in to make it work, but we have typed it in already numerous times so figured that we’d save you the effort.
LOANr-Start.nsf – The database that started from with just the ordinary Notes resources in it. e.g. forms, views, pages and image resources.
LOANr-Final.nsf – Is what the database should look like if you follow the instructions all the way to the end.

We hope you enjoyed the breakout session and if you have not already done so, please complete your evaluation for the session.

Please feel free to ask questions or leave comments here.

So I woke up yesterday at 4:30am after finally getting to bed at 1:00am. So that’s a total of 3 hours 30 minutes for Friday night.

Last night I curled up at midnight and then woke up at 3:00am with slides running through my mind. Every time I closed my eyes, back the slides came and that’s the way it’s been since. Do you think I have something on my mind? Possible

So after 6 hours and 30 minutes sleep in the past 48 hours, I get to present at 1:30pm today. Then I’m going to bed. If I don’t see you at the beach party tonight I apologise in advance. ;o)

So Matt and I are all ready to present on Sunday 17th Jan at Lotusphere in Orlando, Florida. The session is finished and we get just one chance to show you all what you can do with XPages. So if you want to come see the show that has taken Matt and I several days to create, then I suggest you grab one of the seats in the Swan Osprey room really quick. I hope it’s going to be a good lively session. We have far too much content for just 2 hours, so it’s going to be a race against time. We might even find some time for questions at the end, and I know that Matt has a great surprise for you all at the end too. ;o)

SHOW112 – How to build an XPages application from start to finish. Find more details here.