Somehow today’s usability alchemy has made us label the read-the-how-to-before-use approach ancient. Or to state it a little more boldly: Getting familiar with new functionality does not spell Reading The F.cking Manual to most of us. My first try to get started with serious self-management was not any different. I got software (see the GTD experiment PT. I) and started. Strinkingly… after several weeks of clicking, tagging, dragging and dropping I did not feel like the Green Hulk of Efficiency. Though I wasn’t ready yet to leave personal efficiency to those who need their offices’ casual Friday to NOT wear a tie. I shifted one gear up: I read the manual to self-organization.
