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Hard work will open a lot of doors for you, but smart work will open even more. To that end, we can use our BlackBerrys to help organize our lives. It takes one headache out of the equation, allowing us to focus on what really matters. Hey, someone who spends hours organizing their lives might be working hard, but someone who can get organized without those hours is working smart. We’ve reviewed Getting Things Done software before, most recently StudentDocket. There’s another application worth a look, called Viira. It’s a GTD application meant specifically for a professional, rather than a student.

Viira not only organizes your life based on projects, task lists, and appointments, but it also makes those items easy to input. The application’s main feature is to assign tasks from emails. Those tasks can then be connected to a project, context, or as a standalone on a specific day. This is my favorite aspect, really. I’m sure you, like I, get many emails that call for immediate or future action. The ability to add that email right to your task list, complete with a summary, is a productive tool.

(For those unfamiliar, a context is a location-based system that helps you get things done based on your current place. If, for instance, you’re at home, you can check for projects with the “at home” context. You can set contexts for all kinds of places: at your work computer, home computer, on the train, etc.)

Other than the email-to-task feature, Viira runs very much like StudentDocket, as you can see in the screenshot. It allows multiple views: of a loose task list, of projects, of project task lists, of a day’s schedule. You can also set events to recur, and can even prioritize tasks. The interface might work a bit better for professionals, since there are no “classes” or “professors” in this software.

Since Viira is a more grown up version of StudentDocket, it comes with a more grown up price: $29.99. You can, however, get a free trial to see if the software is right for you.

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