productivity
OmniFocus video is out
Omnigroup just posted a new video showing the main features of the forthcoming OmniFocus application. And it looks like they are doing almost everything right. The two things I like the most: Focus Let’s you focus on a special project or folder of projects. Hides everything else you have entered in the app, so you [...]
GTD mac app: iGTD
Bartek Bargiel is another one in the race for the best Mac GTD application. In good Apple style it’s called iGTD and has some very nice features (and some annoying shortcomings as well). The two things I like the most: Syncing and Quicksilver integration. Syncing worked flawless on my Mac. I had a few tasks [...]
Sean Tierney: Use your desktop as a matrix for urgency/importance
Urgency vs. Importance and the 5th system for scattered todos: Mentally superimpose the above graph on your desktop (or if you really want, draw it as your background). Drag the resources (URL locations, documents, graphics, audio files, forms, whatever you’re working with) to the appropriate quadrants on your desktop. URLs are the exact pages on [...]
Program your own GTD app
Now you can, as Jon Crosby has decided to make Actiontastic free and open source: The free (as in “free beer”) part starts tonight. The code (as in “freely available source code”) will follow when the overhead of a new team won’t crush the project under its own weight. Those with experience getting to 1.0 [...]
OmniFocus icon
What do you think of the icon draft Omni has posted for OmniFocus? I’m not sure. I think the other Omni icons are way better. Here they are, presented with the three “main” competitors OmniFocus have: If I were in charge at Omni, I would have followed the style of the two other apps, a [...]
GTD app: Ghost Action
The race for the best Mac GTD app is still on! A new app is in the race: Ghost Action. (Ghost Action screenshot. The app looks slightly different than this screenshot, as I use Uno). I still have big hopes for OmniFocus, but Ghost Action looks clean and simple, and very similar to Actiontastic. It [...]
OmmiFocus is progressing
The race for the best Mac GTD app is still on, and today we had a new version of Inbox (1.0.5) out, and yesterday OmniFocus showed the first screenshots of upcoming GTD app OmniFocus in a get-together at MacWorld in San Francisco. TUAW has one (heh, one???) screenshot, which looks promising. I’m sure Merlin Mann [...]
Inbox 1.0.5 is out
Direct download is here. Also see the Inbox review.
Chinese Democracy Syndrome
Gus Mueller writes about programming on his site, about how some programmers wants everything to be perfect before they ship something. There’s a whole lot of wisdom in what he says, and not only for programmers: …I think sometimes developers can get caught in a trap of trying to make things too “perfect”. “Like Chinese [...]
GTD online
There’s a race to be the best Mac GTD app. And the race is certainly on with the online versions too. I’ve looked at Tedium before, and Vitalist (or should I spell it “Vital!st” – nah… that looks like spam…) is similar to Tedium. (Screenshot of Projects pane when adding a new action and assigning [...]
The beauty of Christmas (and holidays)
I was looking through my contacts pictures of Flickr today, and saw this picture by Mary-Anne. The text under it reads… My sister is visiting from halfway across the country. I asked her how long she’s staying. She said “Till Sunday.” And I realized… that meant absolutely nothing to me. This is a good thing. [...]
Syncing Google calenders and iCal
Oh joy! Spanning Partners are soon launching Spanning Sync, which is a system preference for OS X that let you sync Google Calenders with iCal. There’s a screencast showing how it will work. And it does exactly what I need it do. Edit Google Calenders in iCal So now I can make a shared calender [...]
Interesting online GTD system
Tedium is a new web-based GTD system. You can access your lists from a modern browser on all platforms. Simple interface, but maybe too simple for my taste? Not sure yet. I think the tasks should have had more importance (in style), and the buttons under them be less visible. But I must admit they [...]
The race for the best Mac GTD app
The Omni group is planning a GTD app, which will be called OmniFocus: It has a name. It has a team of engineers working on it, a user interface guru mocking up modes and widgets for it, and a product manager whose Herculean job it is to herd this whole mess towards an elusive ship [...]
New Mac GTD app: Inbox
Midnight Beep has a beta of a forthcoming Mac GTD app; Inbox. This looks very promising! Khoi Vinh of Subtraction asked for it some days ago: It surprises me, actually, that no one is working on a proper, Cocoa-authored desktop application that is a fully-fledged, elegant version of kGTD. “Elegant”. Exactly. I want the apps [...]
