I've been trying to implement the Getting Things Done process in my life, on and off, for some time now. As in more than a year. I forget exactly how long, but if I looked back through my blog entries I'd find out spouting about how I thought it would slice my bread for me or something. I've had trouble getting it working in my life largely because it's a lifestyle shift. Putting everything into a system isn't so tough, but actually USING the system is where it gets tricky.

There is a lot of talk going on these days, all over the web about GTD and how people are making it work for themselves and what tools they use. I recently read an article that talked about some tricks in Gmail that were useful in implementing the lists. Instead of dismissing the idea ( it's email not a listing tool! ) I read through the article and then opened my Gmail tab and tried it. Neat. It worked.

Ah, but I have a work Gmail account and a home Gmail account and Gmail is very funny about letting you log into two accounts at the same time ( as in you can't do it - or maybe that was Gcal that didn't like it, anyway ). And while I'm going to use it for work related stuff I don't really want to HAVE to log in to my work Gmail to get my home stuff. Drats. This means I'd have to be constantly logging in and out of Gmail to send myself emails to remember to do stuff. What a pain in the.... side ( Stand up straight ).

Ah, but that's where the magic of Firefox comes in. A little known feature that wasn't completely removed, just hidden from common everyday use, was the profile manager. Yes, it still exists and you can use it! You have to set an environment variable first: MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 under computer->properties->advanced->environment or something like that. Then open the shortcut to the app and add a '-p' (no quotes) after the quoted string pointing to the firefox.exe. Launch it and you should see the profile manager pop up. Create two profiles and then open firefox using each one. You are now able to log into Gmail and Gcal twice!

Okay, so maybe not Earth-shattering, but pretty cool non-the-less.

I'm going to go through the steps to get this working and then write it all up here, so look for a link in the next few days. I'll have docs on Windows and Linux at least, don't know if I can get my hands on a Mac to try it out.

Now it's time for pizza and Heroes on DVR!!