How much more creative could you have been in the last 24 hours? Are your tools working as catalysts for your creative thinking? Hear David Allen’s perspective on computers helping us think and why eProductivity for Lotus Notes is forging a new frontier.
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.
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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A Community Contribution from Ryan Oakley
Whether you’re a proficient OneNote user or just started using it after reading my GTD and OneNote article posted on GTD Times it doesn’t take long to populate the software with a tonne of pages and a tonne of information (yes, I am Canadian).
First, some definitions:
MS Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides people one place to gather their notes and information, powerful search to find what they are looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks so that they can manage information overload and work together more effectively.
ActiveWords is a Windows application that relates words and actions, giving you instant access to what you want, making you more productive, and improving the quality of your work. (Editors note: ActiveWords was also featured in a podcast by David Allen.) [Read more →]
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.]
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.
A Community Contribution by Erik Hanberg. Please note, this is Erik’s personal opinion. Things is not affiliated with or endorsed by David Allen Company. But we’re happy to pass along an objective review from a community member!
Too Much to Do
In April of this year, I left my full time job to “go freelance.” My schedule has been all over the place as a result. Between writing and doing web development for my fiancé’s graphic design firm, managing my coworking office space in downtown Tacoma, operating my small theater production company, presiding over my condo association, trying to get a novel published, and last – but most certainly not least – getting married at the end of the year; you could say I’m a pretty busy guy. While no single one of these activities takes up a full work week, the number and variety of things I needed to do made me feel like I was dropping the ball on all of them.
