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adoption curve dot net » Post Topic » Hacking the Blackberry for GTD: "Although the latest iteration of the Blackberry software does support categories, it’s not perfect - particularly if you’re trying to follow the GTD processes. Here’s a quick hack that works around the limitiations to an extent. The problem arises because the default task view on the Blackberry is alphabetical - there’s no way to group tasks into contexts as you would be able to in Outlook etc.
If you’ve got a huge list of tasks - and if you’re GTD-ing you will have - it means that you’ll get a screenfull of tasks beginning with a to c, and everything else is scrolled off the bottom. I
t is possible to filter the display by category, but that takes a minimum of four clicks and a lot of scrolling, which offends against the whole hair-trigger nature of GTD (or at least it offends against my hair-trigger nature when it comes to using devices like a Blackberry. It’s supposed to be simple, dammit.) The hack is to prefix each task name with the initial letter of the category - ‘A’ for agenda tasks, ‘C’ for calls & emails and so on.
It does assume that you’ve only got 26 categories and they each start with a different letter of the alphabet, but hey, I did say that this was a hack, didn’t I?"