Synchronicity

I've always liked those "syn" words - synchronicity, synergy, symbiotic, ... I'll stop there because a) I can't think of any more "syn" words and b) I realized that serendipity, which I wanted to list isn't a part of that list). Anyway, today I experienced some synchronicity and serendipity.

Just the other day I heard about Erin's new blog My Dangerous Career then just today I was hacking through a pile of computer magazines when I noticed a reference to "Task Toy". It turns out both were inspired to some extent by the same guy David Allen and his book Getting Things Done. It turns out Task Toy is an excellent little web based tool that implements most of what I always wanted. Hats off to Toby Segaran who put it all together and has already put in some really awesome functionality like RSS support, mailing tasks, location dependent information, a mobile site, etc. etc. Whatever he's doing at his day job I think he'll soon find himself making a living with Task Toy or something similar.

Maybe Google should snap it up for a few billion - I think it would be a better buy and more useful to humanity as a whole than chucking money at AOL. Just think, if Task Toy could be made to appear at google.com it would get used by millions of people, and if it improved the productivity and/or quality of life of those millions of people by just a few percent it would have a massive global impact financially and happiness wise. It might even go some way to restoring a bit of Google's recently tarnished "We're not evil" image.