New GTD-focused iPhone App
May 13th, 2009 GTD Times Team - Staff ContributorsCategories | Community Contributors | Downloads | Gear
Charles Perry attended a public GTD: Mastering Workflow class. He loved it and said he “came home fired up to dive deeper into GTD.” He looked around for an application that would do GTD lists how he wanted them to work on the iPhone and didn’t find one. So he built it! 3 months later, he submitted ActionLists to the Apple Store. Charles wrote to Danny Bader, his GTD instructor, and said:
As I was putting together my personal system, I realized that there were no great tools for implementing GTD on the iPhone (the tool that I wanted to use). Being the geek that I am, I decided to write one. The result is Action Lists, a fairly strict interpretation of the GTD process for the iPhone. My goals with Action Lists were to be the best GTD implementation on the iPhone, and to make it easy to use so that you can quickly get to the information you need. There’s also a free version called Action Lists Lite that is limited to only a few tasks so that you can “try before you buy.”
I know that you aren’t in the business of plugging non-David Allen Company GTD solutions, but I wanted to make you aware of this new tool, and thank you again for a great experience up in Chicago this January. - Charles Perry, Daze End Software
We know this is one of MANY applications and tools out there to support a GTD implementation. We don’t have an official endorsement on this, but it’s one you can check out for yourself.
Cultured Code’s “Things” is an awfully good application for both iPhone/iPod Touch and macintosh desktop. http://www.culturedcode.com/
As the author of Action Lists, I’ll second your comment. Things is a very nice app, and one I evaluated for my own use before writing Action Lists. Ultimately, the main reason it didn’t suit my needs is that I wanted an app that synchronized with a web service (a feature that Things doesn’t offer to my knowledge).
Having used OmniGroup’s OmniFocus for some time, I can say that it is generally helpful to me in integrating GTD into my life. I switched from iGTD, the first GTD software support I used. OmniGroup are a very responsive group of developers. I have gotten direct responses from developers to bug reports and feature requests. The syncing is the most sophisticated I have seen in a GTD application. The iPhone app is very satisfying.
Charles, does your app integrate with outlook/exchange at all?
Thanks!
The Getting Dreams Done Beta iPhone app is available for free now for a very short time. This app will meet your 30,000+ ft GTD planning needs most iPhone GTD apps do not. See http://www.gettingdreamsdone.com and email gettingdreamsdonebeta at gmail.com to get instructions on being a beta tester.
Brad,
Sorry for the delay, I didn’t see your question. You may not be monitoring this thread any more, but for the benefit of those who might stumble on it…
Action Lists does not directly interface with Outlook. It does synchronize with Toodledo, though, which can synchronize with Outlook. That’s one of the reasons why I wanted synchronization with Toodledo. It can act as a “bridge” between your Action Lists (your portable system), and many other systems, like Outlook.
Dear Charles,
Just out of curiosity, what makes your app different from using Toodledo straight up? Right now, I use different contexts and folders in Toodledo as GTD lists, and Toodledo syncs with the iPhone. What advantages do you offer.
Love to know…
I am using MyProjects from Avellana Software, http://www.avellanasoftware.com, and I am pretty happy about it. There is a review of the App here: http://www.alliphoneappsreview.com/2009/10/30/myprojects-get-things-done-app-lets-you-do-so/