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A Community Contribution from Jason Verly
For anyone who uses a Mac and utilizes the GTD method, you may eventually look into what software you can use to help manage your project and next action lists. Currently on the Mac, the leading apps to help manage your lists are OmniFocus and Things. Each app covers four of the five steps of the GTD workflow: Collect, Process, Organize, and Review. (Sorry, but you still have to do ‘Do’ on you own.) Here is a comparison of how each application handles these four steps.
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Editors Note: Many of you know we are partners with OmniGroup. We wanted to provide this article to our GTD Times readers, as Jason has done a great job comparing these two popular applications. It should give you some great information from a fellow GTDer, when choosing which one is best for you.
Hello GTDers! David Allen and the team have created a new step-by-step guide for implementing GTD. It’s chock full of helpful tips, instructions, suggested supplies, and even time estimates on how long you can expect each step to take. It’s a terrific way to coach yourself through really getting all aspects of GTD off the ground–from lists to inboxes and everything in between.
What people are saying on our Forums about the new Guide:
“As are all the GTD products I have purchased, the new GTD Implementation Guide is of very high quality. This guide outlines completely, yet succinctly, how you can implement and maintain the GTD process.”
“I’m no GTD rookie and STILL I bought this new product! I’m glad I did! There are things in here that will help me get closer to black belt. This would have cut 3 months off my initial implementation easily!”
For those of you who are still grappling with questions about the tools you use for GTD, check out this 2 minute video from David Allen:
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The mistake I see many new GTD’ers make is expecting to find a tool to “do” GTD. A tool doesn’t do the thinking for you, it stores the thinking for you. So, then does it even matter what tools you use when it comes to organizing your projects & actions? Sure. Here are some questions to ask yourself when choosing what your GTD system will be:
Is there a perfect GTD system out there? Sure, it’s the one you trust and use so your mind is free.
Wikipedia defines a killer app as “…so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology.” So, what are your killer GTD apps? What do you use regularly AND find to be essential to your GTD implementation?
[Small request: If you are commenting about an app, please disclose if you are the developer and/or involved with it in some way. Thanks.]
I’ve recently had the opportunity to play with an integrated software/capture service called MyCaption. I want to use this post as a way to introduce BlackBerry® owners to the benefits of the software in your GTD® practice.
Before we get started, I should identify the basic function of the software. MyCaption allows the user to create and annotate Tasks, Appointments, Memos, Email, SMS messages, at the touch of a button. The process is such that after the software captures the user’s vocal recording, that data is sent to the company’s servers, where it is delivered to the BlackBerry device as one of the above formats.
So how can it work for GTD? [Read more →]
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