David Allen plugs Lotus Notes at Office 2.0 conference
September 4 2008
These were interesting tweets to see today:
I've known for some time that David is a fan of Lotus Notes, but this is the first time I've heard of him endorsing Notes in a forum like the Office 2.0 conference. Watch the video...especially about 16 minutes in...
"In terms of what we do... we probably have more Lotus Notes databases than staff".
At 17:30, the moderator asks him why he is such a fan of Lotus Notes. "Using it to 5% of its capacity...the idea was, we can build a collaborative way to share information in a distributed form..." and he goes on and on. "Notes has gotten better...the UI used to suck...they've gotten a lot faster and slicker". As an engine, it's a phenomenal tool".
Thank you, David. From the Twitter tweets and other reports on Office 2.0, I know you influenced some skeptics who haven't looked at Notes in many years, and all of us in the community really appreciate your straight-up honest assessment.
While I'm not a GTD methodology user, those that do tell me that it's a huge tool to improve productivity. Eric Mack, who many in the community know, has been working with GTD and eProductivity. I'm looking forward to Eric's forthcoming eProductivity application. GTD and Lotus Notes are natural companions, and from the demonstration and early code I've seen, eProductivity brings the two together in a way that makes both become more valuable.
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Keith Brooks http://www.vanessabrooks.com | 9/4/2008 6:55:27 PM
WOW over 6 minutes describing his Lotus templates, usage and all.
Yet he doesn't see how his staff can use it for scheduling meetings?
Exchange email there or Domino mail?
Be happy to help him see the way through his dilemna.
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Bernard | 9/4/2008 6:58:26 PM
The bizarro thing for me is that Notes (when judged without prejudice) is a phenomenally useful tool, but so many IT professionals are just too prejudiced to see it. The main problem is not that the Notes UI is bad (or ever was bad in my opinion). The problem is that the UI is complex mainly because Notes can do so many things. But it is hard for people to understand what Notes can do until they've used it for some time. So the UI gets in the way. And having a simplified 'Welcome' page with 6 icons on it is not much help, because no sooner has someone chosen one of those 6 items and they are plunged into the plethora of menu options and (maybe idiosyncratic) design choices of the different applications. The idiots who chorus 'the UI sucks' are people who just like having an _apparently_ knowledgable opinion that they know almost no-one will contest, because for most Notes users it is not a passion just a tool that their business decided to use.
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Mike Brown | 9/4/2008 7:06:50 PM
I'm getting a "Stream not found" error when I click on the video on the Office 2.0 site. Can anybody confirm if it's still up for them? (It may be something at my end).
Cheers,
- Mike
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Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 9/4/2008 8:30:54 PM
@4 sorry, mate, it's still there for me.
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Mike Brown | 9/5/2008 2:30:50 AM
@5
Thanks, Ed. It worked fine at home. Maybe something at work blocking it.
Cheers,
- Mike
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Brian Miller | 9/5/2008 7:52:34 AM
Kind of makes me glad I pushed GTD-enabling features on the "task list" DP call. Let's see what David Allen says when those enhancements make it to gold! :)
That was fantastic! David is a highly influential person in the world of personal productivity, so for him to give Notes a thumbs up like that should raise a good deal of interest in the product. I'm glad he talked about Eric's eProductivity application, as it's a stellar implementation of GTD within Lotus Notes. Check out a couple of my thoughts on eProductivity here-->{ Link }
Thanks for the great endorsement, David! :-)