Comments on: The Perfect GTD List Manager

By: Marshall

Marshall — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:36:54 +0000

The absolute top app for integrating Blackberry and GTD is http://www.rexwireless.com –

Perfect for GTD or just simply getting organized and taking it mobile.

check them out- they have a free trial – you should check out their whitepaper…

http://www.rexwireless.com/bestpractices/todomatrix_best_practices1f.pdf

By: Rebecca Wise Girson

Rebecca Wise Girson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:45:45 +0000

I just downloaded an e-book yesterday for a system based upon setting a plain old MS Word table to hold next actions for various projects (www.ontopofeverything.com). I like the simplicity, but the reality is yet to be seen. I’ll try it for awhile and see how it works. BTW, he quotes GTD in his book.

By: CrosbyNc

CrosbyNc — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:59:24 +0000

Listening closely to the podcast, the Palm came in for praise- and this is the backbone of my system: Project Lists; Next Actions lists, Agenda and Calendar. Capture is to A)a physical in-tray B) a beautiful Moleskine for brainstorming/outline project plans/meeting notes and C) Hotmail with folders for processing electronic mail to an inbox and NEXT actions. Filing for a hard copy of project lists, hardcopy project support materals and hard copy tickler folder. But the core of the system is the Palm.

By: Project Management Templates

Project Management Templates — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:28:44 +0000

What about creating a OneNote template based on GTD (Getting Things Done)?. There are a lot of people interested on it, some are trying it their own way… just search “GTD Onenote”. I’m sure that an “official” template will boost the sales of OneNote since it will automatically gather that whole target market.

By: Tony in London

Tony in London — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:03:45 +0000

I echo Max above and encourage list makers to look at ToodleDo http://www.toodledo.com which I stumbled across recently. Very fast and flexible. Not perfect for full GTD but ‘good enough’ for lots of us. I specifically like the ‘Importance’ algorithm ToodleDo applies automatically to each entry based on due date and priority. A useful way to manage priorities across projects.

By: JayRhino

JayRhino — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:15:05 +0000

Thought I’d share the tools I’m using for GTD since they weren’t mentioned in any of the above commentaries. I’ve tried several different systems, but so far what appears to be working for me right now is “Things”, task manager for Macs, and Personal Brain, Mac and PC. Like most who start out in GTD the first focus was collecting and organizing lists. Things works really well for this. There’s a keyboard combination that quickly allows me to add something to my IN category to process later and move to the appropriate task category/context. That’s helped tremendously in collecting all those random “things to do” that would pop into my head while I’m on the computer. Unfortunately it’s not PC compatible. However, my work around this is printing them and carrying them in my Franklin binder. Personal Brain is great for focusing on the different horizons. PB frees up my thinking from categorizing to just one horizon or thought. I can link a thought to different areas in my life and not be afraid of losing it because I haven’t gone to that one specific category to review.

By: gofer

gofer — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:41:44 +0000

I am stable on Thinking Rock for 2 years now, project support on Evernote, inbox in Reqall when I’m away from computer (often).
When possible I print my NAs and work from that. It works for the level of complexity I am managing now, before then I was used to a single text file.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:30:22 +0000

I’ve tried everything going, including enormously complicated OneNote-Outlook-Blackberry setup. But finally about 9 months ago I came across the answer – http://www.toodledo.com. It’s perfect, really flexible, fast, good iPhone app, widgets, the lot. I love it. It’s my life.

By: Mike B, Virginia

Mike B, Virginia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:23:54 +0000

Great constructive input. Thanks to everyone for the tips. I have gone back and forth many times from digital to paper and back and forth again (over the years). I currently use a nice Franklin leather binder and I keep my GTD lists in there along with my calendar. I move some NextActions onto the daily tasks area for that day, usually the @WORK context ones. I do not have iPhone and I am unable to synchronize all home and work information (don’t have internet at work.) There is something very freeing in having ALL my GTD (and life, really) related thinking in ONE place (InBox gets processed into my binder system). I also enjoy the human look of written pages, and enjoy writing too. I’ve tried text files and GMail and Outlook, and Palm, and Moleskine, and Index Cards, etc., but right now, nothing beats having my binder with me and being able to quickly glance through all applicable pages of projects, actions, and even horizons info, no matter where I am. Plus, using a nice fine pen like a Uniball 207 Micro, I can fit a LOT of info onto one 5.5 x 8.5 page. I saw that David Allen Co is now making paper and binders, etc. Very nice.

By: Rod Greenshields

Rod Greenshields — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:52:15 +0000

My “GTasks” contexts are just lists with different names. My contexts (and subsequent lists) have evolved to:

-Work
-Agenda (Work)
-Waiting For (Work)
-Home
-Home PC
-House/Auto
-Agenda (Home)
-Waiting For (Home)

And from a desktop (not the iPhone, unfortunately), it’s easy to move tasks between lists which is great for migrating a Next Action to a Waiting For.

One great hope I have is that the iPhone 3.0 release with its Memos/Notes synchronization will prompt Google to spin up something on this front with comparable accessibility. My current hack of using Gmail drafts for memos is too awkward.