Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Some of you may recall that I’ve blogged a bit here and there about Backpack, which is sort of a personal WiKi etc. My Wife and I use it as our personal dashboard for domestic chores and notes that we need to share. To find out how Backpack can relate to Getting Things Done I’d recommend reading Backpack and GTD on the What's the next action blog.
While I’d love to use OneNote for this type of thing, Backpack is pretty rich and allows access from anywhere including mobile devices. For that reason it wins for this sort of thing.
Another good site to check out is Remember The Milk. There are some things I prefer about Remember the Milk like being able to assign tasks to different people, but it doesn’t have any real notes support for dashboard type information.